Favela Rising
Like City of God and Bus 174 before it, Favela Rising is about as raw as it comes. This is not an apologetic film, but rather one that looks for the bright side in a bleak situation.
Category: Reviews: F
Freedom State
A playful film that calls on its audience to believe in the empowering virtues of imagination and freedom.
Christmas · Films: F · Reviews: F
The Family Stone
What’s so refreshing about Thomas Bezucha’s The Family Stone is how it plays off of genre expectations and effortlessly switches back and forth between comedy, romance and tragedy.
Fitzcarraldo
If you have a dream, the only way to accomplish it is to face it head on. If your dream requires you to drag a massive boat up a mountainside, do it. So says director Werner Herzog in the bizarre but captivating Fitzcarraldo.
Flyerman
A sad portrait of one man’s obsession with becoming someone he is not. Or is Flyerman the real Mark Vistorino? Either or, this is one legitimately tormented soul.
Four Funny Families
The success or failure of a film such as this depends on the viewer’s willingness to seek out what’s happening in the film.
Freddy vs. Jason
If you can convince a theater manager or lowly high school corn monkey to let you into the final half hour…for a few bucks, you won’t be disappointed. But that’s the only part worth seeing.
Fire Maidens of Outer Space
Old sci-fi can be great and insightful into its time period when it’s good. But if you’re going to be bad, sci-fi is the worst genre to be in. Fire Maidens of Outer Space is as bad as anything you can imagine.
Finding Nemo
[Once again Pixar] ensures that the label ‘family film’ isn’t ‘a movie only your tots will enjoy’ but something that actually is for everyone.
Flower and Garnet
A hauntingly quiet film that honestly explores the emotions of guilt, blame and hope.
