Splat |
Face Addict (2008) |
"The film is flatly shot, as though to illustrate the dimensional difference between stills photography and cinematography." |
Mike McCahill |
Splat |
Fade to Black (2006) |
"All credit to writer-director Oliver Parker for trying to broaden his CV, but Danny Huston is a terrible bore as Welles, Paz Vega continues to be incomprehensible in English, and the murky mystery plot limps along unrewardingly." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato |
The Fall (2008) |
"The Fall is hugely ambitious, but ultimately it's just an intriguing folly." |
David Gritten |
Splat |
The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) |
"The banter between characters is laboured and unfunny, while there is also a pointless in-joke involving Stan Lee, creator of the original comic, being turned away from Storm's marriage. You may wish to turn away from this exercise in coercive banality." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato 4/5 |
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) |
"A dazzlingly imaginative and poetically inflected comic caper that offers the tantalizing possibility that Anderson’s best work, far from being a distant memory, is still to come." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato |
Fast Food Nation (2006) |
"Engaging and stimulating." |
Tim Robey |
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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) |
"Britney Spears Rumored for Faster Pussycat Remake" |
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Splat |
Feast of Love (2007) |
""Epidemic of Love" would be more like it." |
Tim Robey |
Splat |
Female Agents (2008) |
"At no point does Female Agents begin to approach the muddy, bloody complexities of war represented by Black Book or Lust, Caution, films genuinely fascinated by the plight of women behind enemy lines." |
Mike McCahill |
Splat 2/5 |
Fermat's Room (2008) |
"The diabolical m.o. in these things is never really satisfactory, and even the fun of the conceit is somewhat muffled by the film’s lurid colour design and headachey close-ups." |
Tim Robey |
Splat |
A Few Days in September (2006) |
"No film starring Juliette Binoche can be totally negligible, but this comes close." |
David Gritten |
Tomato 3/5 |
Fighting (2009) |
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Tomato 3/5 |
Fighting (2009) |
"Montiel’s film lands on its feet with a gripping, will-he-or-won’t-he third act – it’s worth the wait." |
Tim Robey |
Splat 2/5 |
The Final Destination (2009) |
"This series used to be a guilty pleasure, but I think Death may have delighted us long enough." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato |
Fine, Totally Fine (2008) |
"There are antics with fake ghosts and fish sausages - rather too many, but you've got to laugh." |
Tim Robey |
Splat 1/5 |
Fired Up (2009) |
"This aggressively stupid comedy tries to have it both ways, advocating sexual probity while its cameras linger over acres of golden female thighs." |
David Gritten |
Splat 2/5 |
Fireflies in the Garden |
"We’re in the twilight land of the sensitive indie ensemble piece, something American stars gravitate to for reasons of range and prestige, but which ends up being more cathartic for them than for us." |
Tim Robey |
Splat |
Firehouse Dog (2007) |
"It may sound like cute family entertainment, but the dog's no good - he's unappealing and looks depressed." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato |
The Firm (2009) |
"The odd thing is that Love’s version feels so bright and breezy, as if he’s cosying back up to a wider audience who were turned off by Outlaw’s grimy nihilism. If that’s the case, it’s a wacky choice of subject, but the effort’s appreciated." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 3/5 |
The First Day of the Rest of Your Life |
"The movie’s keen to show off its period threads and craft solo acting moments, all of which it does entertainingly, but we can’t quite see the ties that bind: these feel like five characters in search of a common gene pool." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 4/5 |
Fish Tank (2009) |
"Fish Tank, a social drama at once bucolic and grimy, draws a magnificent performance from newcomer Katie Jarvis, who plays Mia, a fierce-tempered, beer-guzzling teenager." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
Tomato 4/5 |
Fish Tank (2009) |
"Arnold works wonders almost everywhere in this film: the drip-drop drabness of kitchen-sink drama is stilled, alive, and newly dangerous." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato |
Fissures (2007) |
"There are shades of the excellent Brian De Palma/John Travolta thriller Blow Out (1981) in this eerie little effort." |
Tim Robey |
Splat 2/5 |
Flame & Citron (2008) |
"Noirer-than-thou wartime drama, which wants terribly to show the movement in a murky light, perhaps explaining the murky lighting." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato |
Flanders (2006) |
"Dumont (L'humanité, Twentynine Palms) mounts the brutish combat sequences with undeniable small-scale skill, though his constant see-sawing between images of sex and death verges on the masturbatory." |
Tim Robey |
Splat |
Flashbacks of a Fool (2008) |
"Fatally, Craig's self-obsessed Joe never develops into anyone more interesting." |
David Gritten |
Splat |
Flawless (2007) |
"Calling a diamond-heist movie Flawless is a valiant choice - especially when it's anything but. Suspense is essential to this genre, but here you couldn't care less what happens next." |
David Gritten |
Tomato |
The Flying Scotsman (2007) |
"Still, there's useful support from Brian Cox as a pep-talking priest, and Gavin Finney's long-take velodrome cinematography is frequently rather excellent." |
Tom Robey |
Splat |
The Foot Fist Way (2008) |
"From a bunch of minor Judd Apatow protégés, a dispiriting low-budget series of witless, misogynistic sketches masquerading as comedy." |
David Gritten |
Splat |
For Your Consideration (2006) |
"Guest goes for big, crude laughs every step of the way, and only a few of them come off." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato |
The Fountain (2006) |
"If only all reputed turkeys gave us such a trip." |
Tim Robey |
Splat 0/5 |
Four Christmases (2008) |
"Seeing such talent wasted on this dross is dismaying." |
David Gritten |
Tomato |
Fracture (2007) |
"It's like an above-average episode of Columbo." |
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Splat |
Frankie (2005) |
"Diane Kruger hopes for a moment of ultra-low-budget indie cred as the title character, an emotionally fragile model whose catwalk days are numbered. The ferociously ugly digital photography shares her pain, while making the thing borderline unwatchable." |
Tim Robey |
Splat |
Fred Claus (2007) |
"Fred Claus is in the grand tradition of a certain type of Yuletide farce - one that's about as funny as a crushed bauble in your egg nog." |
Tim Robey |
Splat 2/5 |
Friday the 13th (2009) |
"It’s good, at best, for a drunken DVD night, with a script that’s amazingly witless when it isn’t lazy, and a climax that criminally wastes the gory possibilities of a large shredding machine." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 3/5 |
Frost/Nixon (2008) |
"Langella is the reason to see the film, smuggling his lugubrious Tricky Dicky well past the script's limited grasp. It's a superb performance, looming like a spectre over the words and deeds of "misunderestimated" politicians everywhere." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 3/5 |
Frozen River (2008) |
"It’s Leo, with her pained and battered magnetism - half-pleading, half screw-you - who shakes the film out of its occasional glibness, notching up the performance of her career in thrilling, hungry style." |
Tim Robey |
Splat 2/5 |
Fugitive Pieces (2008) |
"Plays out with such daunting high-mindedness it makes The Reader look like Transformers." |
Tim Robey |
Tomato 4/5 |
Funny People (2009) |
"The film has some obvious problems – it sprawls, and goes on too long. But it’s funny in such a thoughtful, rounded, adult way, and deflects sentimentality so confidently, that it won me over anyway." |
Tim Robey |
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