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Movie Overview
Cast
• Julia Roberts
• Blair Underwood
• Catherine Keener
Director
• Steven Soderbergh
MPAA Rating
R - language and some sexual content
Full Frontal (2002)

REVIEWS
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INTERVIEWS
OTHER
OFCS Rating: 37% Rotten
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7/10
"a dizzyingly convoluted exploration of sex, art, identity and reality"  Movie Gazette  Anton Bitel

3/5
"...feels like a featurette in a better movie’s DVD."  NutzWorld  Blake French

4/5
"Insane hilarity... the cast has plenty of fun chewing the scenery"  Filmcritic.com  Christopher Null

1.5/4
"Soderbergh should be ashamed of himself for trying to pass this off as entertainment."  Movie Boeuf  David N. Butterworth

2/4
"...Soderbergh has essentially gone full circle and made his artiest flick yet. Trouble is, it's just not terribly interesting."  Reel Film Reviews  David Nusair

3/4
"Penetratingly draws us in to this passing snapshot of just a few of the many unsatisfying lives in Tinseltown."  TheMovieBoy.com  Dustin Putman

1.5/4
"An inscrutable experiment too fixated with its own self-reflexivity to ever be about anything in particular."  Slant Magazine  Ed Gonzalez

B
"Once I got used to the deliberately atrocious cinematography, I found the film playful, funny, sometimes even sweet."  Film Blather  Eugene Novikov

2/4
"If Soderbergh wanted to expose the business up close and personal with the sincere simplicity of a mere camera lens, then couldn't he have accomplished this feat without the sledgehammer direction of a labored and obvious spoof?"  Movie Eye  Frank Ochieng

F
"Chaotic, self-indulgent and remarkably ugly to look at, it's...like a series of pretentiously awful student films strung together into one feature-length horror."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

"The screenplay by Coleman Hough has an equal mix of humor and humanity as it circles around the busy lives of seven people searching for intimate relationships."  Spirituality and Practice  Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

2.5/4
"Even those who are used to art house films will likely be underwhelmed by the bareness of Full Frontal's menu."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

1.5/4
"a pretentious, shapeless, often boring jumble of a film that is pretending to be a spontaneous, improvised work of art made against the mainstream Hollywood machine."  Q Network Film Desk  James Kendrick

4/5
"Steven Soderbergh's digital video experiment is a clever and cutting, quick and dirty look at modern living and movie life."  Netflix  James Rocchi

3/4
"Fraught with character confusion, but ultimately worth the effort."  Palo Alto Weekly  Jeanne Aufmuth

4/10
"It's too self-aware of its own irony. It makes sure the audience knows this and tries to be cute about the whole thing at the expense of its own characters, inviting us to laugh at them."  Window to the Movies  Jeffrey Chen

2/4
"It's as difficult to imagine someone who will find nothing to like in Full Frontal as it is to conceive of someone who can embrace everything it offers."  MovieMartyr.com  Jeremy Heilman

4/10
"Too conscious of its own self..."  Screen It!  Jim Judy

6/10
"I will recommend it to anyone wanting to see something different."  JoBlo's Movie Emporium  JoBlo

4/10
"Somewhere under the layers of pretentiousness and in-jokes and cleverness and reflexivity and artsiness and talk, there is probably a film lurking. I didn't find it."  DVDTown.com  John J. Puccio

3/10
"You get the impression that the cast/crew screening will generate more laughs and raves than one attended by regular folks who have to do their own hair and makeup every day."  Planet Sick-Boy  Jon Popick

1.5/5
"While it does beat watching paint dry, at least watching paint dry gives you a sense of something having been accomplished."  Cinerina  Karina Montgomery

1.5/4
"Gives a bad name to 'art' 'movies' everywhere."  Montreal Film Journal  Kevin N. Laforest

2/5
"Though some individual scenes crackle, overall the film feels unfocussed and flabby, like a series of acting improv exercises strung together."  TV Guide's Movie Guide  Maitland McDonagh

"A raw, emotional tapestry that may have benefited from the no-nonsense atmosphere Soderbergh provided, but I doubt that."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

2/4
"Click to read review"  Mr. Brown's Movies  Michael Dequina

4/5
"It's a doodle movie, a sketchbook. I was held by the tinkering quality of it, though."  eFilmCritic.com  Rob Gonsalves

3.5/5
"I don't know precisely what to make of Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal, though that didn't stop me from enjoying much of it."  eFilmCritic.com  Scott Weinberg

C
"The cast feels adrift in a sea of improvisation, while the camera pretends an intimacy that is only fitfully rewarded with anything resembling sincerity."  Seattle Post-Intelligencer  Sean Axmaker

B
"Situations can be revealing, and almost always intriguing, in the hands of this talented cast."  Eclipse Magazine  Sean O'Connell

"The whole thing feels like a ruse, a tactic to cover up the fact that the picture is constructed around a core of flimsy -- or, worse yet, nonexistent -- ideas."  Salon.com  Stephanie Zacharek

4/10
"Even Steven Soderberg describes this as a sketch, an experiment, an exercise, so when one character sighs, "I want this day to be over," I found myself nodding in agreement."  www.susangranger.com  Susan Granger

1/4
"So claustrophobically masturbatory that it becomes something only an avowed art film crowd can possibly embrace."  Film Freak Central  Walter Chaw

"Click here to see review"  Wolf Entertainment Guide  William Wolf

5/10
Read review  Modamag.com  Brian Orndorf

D
Read review  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

3/4
Read review  Movie Habit  Marty Mapes

3/5
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OFCS Rating: 37% Rotten
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