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(F) Final Destination 3

Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R     Audience: High School
It’s like deja vu, says the main character, only of something I haven’t done yet.

Wow, get out of my head, Wendy! We are barely minutes into “Final Destination 3” and already we, t...

» Read Review Posted on Tuesday February 14, 2006

(B-) Find Me Guilty

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MPAA Rating: R     Audience: High School
Director Sidney Lumet revisits the themes of two of his most memorable films in this movie, but with less success. Like » Read Review Posted on Wednesday March 15, 2006

(B+) The Five-Year Engagement

Genre: Romance
MPAA Rating: R     Audience: Mature High Schooler
» Read Review Posted on Thursday April 26, 2012

(B+) Flags of Our Fathers

Genre: War
MPAA Rating: R     Audience: Mature High Schooler
Clint Eastwood's first of two films about the WWII battle at Iwo Jima is sincere, competent, and respectful. He powerfully conveys the madness and brutality of battle and the conflicting feelings o...
» Read Review Posted on Wednesday October 18, 2006

(B+) Flight

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MPAA Rating: R     Audience: Mature High Schooler
» Read Review Posted on Thursday November 1, 2012

(B+) FLOW: For Love of Water

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MPAA Rating: R     Audience: Middle School
Americans take for granted our most precious and vital resource. We assume that when we turn on the tap, the water that comes out will be perfectly safe and more than plentiful, endless. And then...
» Read Review Posted on Thursday September 11, 2008

(B) Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story

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MPAA Rating: R     Audience: Middle School
One of the most daring rescue missions of the post WWII era was the Raid on Entebbe in 1976. 
» Read Review Posted on Thursday May 3, 2012

(B-) For Colored Girls

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MPAA Rating: R     Audience: Mature High Schooler

Tyler Perry's films frustrate critics and commentators, who are bothered by the awkward mash-ups of high melodrama and low humor and by what many people think is an exaggerated and biased portra...

» Read Review Posted on Wednesday February 9, 2011

(B-) Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Genre: Romance
MPAA Rating: R     Audience: Mature High Schooler
"How I Met Your Mother's" Jason Segal wrote and stars in the latest from the Apatow atelier, another raunchy comedy with a tender heart, and once again the story of a childish and helpless man who ...
» Read Review Posted on Tuesday September 30, 2008

(B) Fracture

Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R     Audience: High School
This is not a who-dun-it. It's a will-they-be-able-to-prove-it. As in the old » Read Review Posted on Friday April 13, 2007

(B) Freddy vs. Jason

Genre: Series/Sequel
MPAA Rating: R     Audience: Mature High Schooler
I hope needless to say, this extremely violent movie is only for the hard-core fans of the genre who are old enough not to be traumatized by it. Since I do not think I can be fair to these movies,...
» Read Review Posted on Wednesday August 13, 2003

(C+) Freedomland

Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R     Audience: High School
This movie’s inability to live up to its potential is nearly as epic as its misleading title. In other hands, "Freedomland" might have played a jazz-like riff of personal loss and moving vignett...
» Read Review Posted on Friday February 17, 2006

(B) Friends With Benefits

Genre: Romance
MPAA Rating: R     Audience: Mature High Schooler
"Shut up, Katherine Heigl," says our heroine, as she passes by a wall of posters for another fungible romantic comedy that should be sued for deceptive advertising.  Jamie (Mila Kunis) is an execu...
» Read Review Posted on Friday July 22, 2011

(C) From Paris With Love

Genre: Spies
MPAA Rating: R     Audience: Mature High Schooler
John Travolta loves to be bad. And so he is clearly having a blast -- in both senses of the word -- in this film, playing a bald guy with an earring who likes to shoot first and think later. As ...
» Read Review Posted on Thursday June 10, 2010

(B) Fugitive Pieces

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MPAA Rating: R     Audience: High School
fugitive%20pieces.jpgIn this impressionistic, ros...
» Read Review Posted on Thursday May 15, 2008

(B-) Funny People

Genre: Gross-out
MPAA Rating: R     Audience: Adult
"Funny People" combines two very different movies. The first is a typically crass, shallow Judd Apatow production, saturated with childish sexual antics and slapstick humor. The second is a dark,...
» Read Review Posted on Wednesday November 25, 2009



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