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Factory Girl (2007)
"Whatever shrewdness or charm Sedgwick possessed that caused people to believe that she was a revolutionary figure in New York night life, it doesn’t come through in this movie."
David Denby
Tomato
Factotum (2006)
"The beautiful joke of Factotum is that Dillon is nobility itself."
Anthony Lane
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
"This is Moore's most powerful movie -- the largest in scope, the most resourceful and skillful in means -- and the best things in it have little to do with his usual ideological take on American power and George Bush."
Fast Food Nation (2006)
"The fiction that Schlosser and the director Richard Linklater have extracted from the book is a mess, with narrative lines that go astray or simply wind up in the air."
Fay Grim (2007)
"What lures the film into disaster, is that [director] Hartley lets slip his sense of humor (always his strongest asset) and begins to believe his own plot."
Fever Pitch (2005)
"Has a slapdash feeling to it."
Fighting (2009)
"The fights may not be very convincing, but the story’s underdog structure is satisfying in a happy-cliché sort of way. Fighting is Rocky without the bombast, Fight Club without the daft metaphysical pretensions."
Filth and Wisdom (2008)
"In technical terms, more professional productions than this are filmed and cut on iMovie, by ten-year-olds, a thousand times a day."
Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
"Flags of Our Fathers is an accomplished, stirring, but, all in all, rather strange movie."
Food, Inc. (2009)
"An angry blast of disgust aimed at the American food industry."
For Your Consideration (2006)
"In order to stay ahead as a mocker these days, you must nail your subject for good."
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
"It’s not hard, it turns out, to forget Sarah Marshall. The problem is remembering her."
The Fountain (2006)
"The movie may have significant truths to impart, although I have my doubts, but it feels too inexperienced, too unworldly, to have earned the right to them."
Friends With Money (2006)
"The trouble with Holofcener’s scheme is that the center of the movie is dead."
Frost/Nixon (2008)
"One of the virtues of Frost/Nixon, Ron Howard’s adaptation of Peter Morgan’s hit play, is that it brings the intelligence back to the forefront without dispelling the elements of menace and fraudulence that were also part of Nixon’s temperament."
Funny Games (2008)
"I would absolutely defend Haneke’s right to relaunch his broadside on our voyeuristic vices, but he’s not keeping up with the times; he’s behind them."
Funny People (2009)
"Funny People is leisurely, with many extended sequences, but the performers’ natural command of rhythm holds it in tension."
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)
"The filmmakers behind Fur sentimentalize Arbus, bringing her back into the comfort zone of a woman who is more sensitive than other people to the trials of the unfortunate -- exactly the kind of soft fifties liberalism that she knocked to pieces."
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