Tomato 3/4 |
The Faculty (1999) |
"Another smart and pop-culturally hip film from Williamson." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) |
"An important documentary and a spellbinding entertainment. Laugh-aloud funny, razor sharp, informative, humane, enraging, and powerful, oftentimes all of the above at once." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
Failure to Launch (2006) |
"When the stars aren't charming the viewer, the film is busy shooting itself in the foot." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
Fame (2009) |
"Some of the students specialize in classical music, others in dance, and still others in singing and acting, but the one thing they all have in common is their apparent enrollment in Clichés 101." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
The Family Man (2000) |
"Aside from the premise, the film is not likely to become a perennial Christmas mainstay, due to its uneven tone and flawed." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Family Stone (2005) |
"With intelligence and unforced spirit to spare, The Family Stone is that rare widely commercial motion picture worth embracing." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Fanboys (2009) |
"The kind of groovy, easygoing, good-hearted affair that manages to entertain despite its shortcomings. Fanboys will leave you with a smile across your face for ninety minutes." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1/4 |
Fantastic Four (2005) |
"A painful, sluggish black hole of simultaneous bad ideas and no ideas at all." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1/4 |
The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) |
"Superficial, unimaginative and inert. The so-called heroes are pompous, one-note caricatures who have the depth of gnats, and are just as irritating." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) |
"A defibrillator could have only helped." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Far From Heaven (2002) |
"Consistently beautiful to look at and thematically daring, Far From Heaven remains unlike any other film you are sure to see this year." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
Fast & Furious (2009) |
"As brashly dumb as all the earlier pictures in the series, but this time there is also a more rampant mean-spirited streak running through it." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
The Fast and the Furious (2001) |
"If anything, the action leaves a cursory adrenaline rush. When the movie is over, though, don't expect to think about it again -- because you won't." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) |
"A juvenile jerk-off session of battling machismos." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
Fast Food Nation (2006) |
"Decidedly spineless and not exactly all that eye-opening." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
Fat Albert (2004) |
"The epilogue is poignant and truthful in a way that the rest of the film, with its inept storytelling and strictly unfunny humor, does not earn or deserve." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Fear Dot Com (2002) |
"A mess when it comes to the characters and writing...but works its way underneath the skin like few movies have in recent memory." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Feast of Love (2007) |
"A film that resonates in spite of its shortcomings...Feast of Love is a frothy, whimsical title--too frothy and too whimsical for a film that might have been more accurately named Woe Is Love." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Felicia's Journey (1999) |
"Turns into a sort of poetry, flowing gently from one scene to the next." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Femme Fatale (2002) |
"Preposterous, labyrinthine, and aesthetically superb." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Fever Pitch (2005) |
"The most consistently funny motion picture of the year so far, and also its sweetest. Once over, audiences won't so much walk out of the theater as they will float out." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
Fight Club (1999) |
"Taking every scene on an individual basis, it is often madly brilliant, but put it all together, and it is a pretentious, incoherent mess." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1/4 |
Fighting (2009) |
"A purpose-free, self-serious yawner that is just dreary, uninspired and hopelessly forgettable." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Final Destination (2000) |
"Has the ability to both surprise and frighten—two things that are rarely found in today's horror films. It's safe to say you will never ever look at flying in airplanes the same way again." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Final Destination (2009) |
"The destination of the title is never in any doubt, but the getting-there is giddily devious and playful. For the fourth outing in a thought-tired series, The Final Destination has some surprising sparks of life to it yet." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Final Destination 2 (2003) |
"If my mini-anxiety attack driving home following the film is any indication, Final Destination 2 if nothing else, may just give you nightmares for days afterward at the mere thought of getting onto the highway." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
Final Destination 3 (2006) |
"Absent of the edgy suspense, creativity and thoughtful moments of existentialism that had previously made this horror series more than just a cheap study in evisceration and decapitations." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) |
"A gorgeous, surprisingly meditative look at the beauty of life and the mysteries of death." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
The Final Season (2007) |
"Characters speak in dime-store odes to the sacred game of baseball. The emotions are of the maudlin, heart-on-your-sleeve variety. The music score swells even when the scene doesn't call for it. The climax is set at the big game. You get the picture." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Finding Nemo (2003) |
"Finding Nemo is superlative family entertainment, joyous and alive in a way few films are." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Finding Neverland (2004) |
"The frequent steps from reality into fantasy are gorgeous to behold and humanely relevant rather than cloying and cute." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Fired Up (2009) |
"It goes without saying that Fired Up! is predictable, but that wouldn't have mattered were there a semblance of reality or charm to the proceedings." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Firehouse Dog (2007) |
"A quality dramedy that knows how to satisfy its target audience. Rexxx is talented in tricks and stunts, but this is Josh Hutcherson's film all the way." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
Firewall (2006) |
"Follows an oft-taken path through undistinguished scripting drearier than its rain-swept Seattle setting and more improbable than snowfall in August." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
First Daughter (2004) |
"Charmless and confoundingly amateurish, a trifle of bankrupt non-ideas that will be forgotten about long before the November election even gets here." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1/4 |
First Sunday (2008) |
"Comedies don't have to be high in class as long as they are funny, entertaining and do not treat their audience like imbeciles. First Sunday fails all three of these qualifications." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
Flags of Our Fathers (2006) |
"Not a bad motion picture, but it is a missed opportunity that sheds fleeting light on what could have been an important historical epic." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Flash of Genius (2008) |
"With minimal saccharine emotions and a reliance on low-key realism, Flash of Genius is a formulaic underdog tale carried out with decided intelligence." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
Flicka (2006) |
"Never met a cliché it didn't like." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Flightplan (2005) |
"Where the flight from hell leads is no great shake, but getting there is exciting enough to be worth the trip." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1/4 |
Flushed Away (2006) |
"Flushed Away deserves to be just that." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Fly Me To The Moon (2008) |
"An immersive experience, perhaps the most impressive and least flawed use of the 3-D format, to date." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Flyboys (2006) |
"Gorgeously choreographed aerial photography and seamless visual effects give life, scope, exhilaration and danger to the action set-pieces." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
Focus (2001) |
"The film progressively loses its credibility until there is very little left to support besides [Willim H.] Macy's latest extraordinary turn." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Fog (1980) |
"Orchestrates a thick pall of apprehension and good-time suspense." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1/4 |
The Fog (2005) |
"A textbook example of how not to make a horror film." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Fool's Gold (2008) |
"The fools, it turns out, are audience members who get duped into thinking this will be a fun, energetic romp." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1/4 |
For Love of the Game (1999) |
"Piles on the cheese and corn and honey-sap so thickly that the film, at times, seems to be in danger of being smothered to death, which would have been fine with me." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3/4 |
For Your Consideration (2006) |
"For Your Consideration is Christopher Guest's most comedically sharp feature since the marvelous Waiting for Guffman." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat .5/4 |
The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) |
"A drab exercise in poor storytelling, empty-headed characters, low-grade aesthetics, and forgettable action sequences. This isn't 'so-bad-it's-good' we're talking about; it's 'so-bad-it's-bad.'" |
Dustin Putman |
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