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NUMBERS
Box Office: $2,434,705
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CONSENSUS
An confusing movie made worse by the poor camera work.
CAST & CREW
Julia Roberts, Blair Underwood, Catherine Keener
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
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SYNOPSIS
Director Steven Soderbergh follows up his highly impressive string of big budget smashes (ERIN BROCKOVICH, TRAFFIC, OCEAN'S ELEVEN) with this self-proclaimed "companion piece" to 1989's hugely influential SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE. more...
MPAA RATING
R, language and some sexual content
RUNTIME
1 hour, 41 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Aug 2, 2002
Video: Feb 11, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Miramax Films
GENRE
Dramas, Comedy, Infidelity, Film About Film, Hollywood, Sex, Interviews
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Full Frontal Site
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 "What's infuriating about Full Frontal is that it's too close to real life to make sense. What's invigorating about it is that it doesn't give a damn."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
"A brilliant gag at the expense of those who paid for it and those who pay to see it."
-- Robert Wilonsky, DALLAS OBSERVER
 "The movie certainly has its share of clever moments and biting dialogue, but there's just not much lurking below its abstract surface."
-- Glenn Whipp, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"An entertaining, often amusing exercise made to look more artistic and intellectual than it really is."
-- Jeffrey Westhoff, NORTHWEST HERALD (CRYSTAL LAKE, IL)
"For every inspired bit of absurdity, there's a lame piece of improvisational noodling."
-- Scott Von Doviak, CULTUREVULTURE.NET
"Given how heavy-handed and portent-heavy it is, this could be the worst thing Soderbergh has ever done."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"A full-frontal attack on audience patience."
-- Doris Toumarkine, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"There is something in Full Frontal, I guess, about artifice and acting and how it distorts reality for people who make movies and watch them, but like most movie riddles, it works only if you have an interest in the characters you see."
-- Gary Thompson, PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
"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."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"Maybe it’s the star power of the cast or the redundant messages, but something aboul “Full Frontal” seems, well, contrived."
-- Steven Snyder, ZERTINET MOVIES
"Full Frontal had no effect and elicited no sympathies for any of the characters. By that measure, it is a failure."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"will be far more interesting to the Soderbergh faithful than it will be to the casual moviegoer who might be lured in by Julia Roberts..."
-- James Sanford, KALAMAZOO GAZETTE
"What's surprising about Full Frontal is that despite its overt self-awareness, parts of the movie still manage to break past the artifice and thoroughly engage you."
-- Rene Rodriguez, MIAMI HERALD
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"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."
-- Scott Weinberg, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"Full Frontal is the antidote for Soderbergh fans who think he's gone too commercial since his two Oscar nominated films in 2000"
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"I like it. No, I hate it. No, I love it...hell, I dunno."
-- John Venable, SUPERCALA.COM
"An impenetrable and insufferable ball of pseudo-philosophic twaddle."
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"Fragmented, elliptical and overplotted to the point of being hard to track. Still, it's worth hanging in for the finish ... [when] Soderbergh pulls off a delicious trick, a gesture of pure, tender, unabashed movie love that makes up for everything."
-- Ella Taylor, L.A. WEEKLY
"Often likable, but just as often it's meandering, low on energy, and too eager to be quirky at moments when a little old-fashioned storytelling would come in handy."
-- David Sterritt, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
"What Full Frontal lacks in thematic coherence it largely makes up for as loosey-goosey, experimental entertainment. Still, I'm not quite sure what the point is…"
-- Brent Simon, ENTERTAINMENT TODAY
"The movie is undone by a filmmaking methodology that's just experimental enough to alienate the mainstream audience while ringing cliched to hardened indie-heads."
-- Steve Schneider, ORLANDO WEEKLY
"The best way to describe it is as a cross between Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia and David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr."
-- Craig Roush, KINNOPIO'S MOVIE REVIEWS
"Steven Soderbergh's digital video experiment is a clever and cutting, quick and dirty look at modern living and movie life."
-- James Rocchi, NETFLIX
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ROTTEN 34%
Avg. Rating: 5.8/10 |
"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."
-- Stephanie Zacharek, SALON.COM
"Several of Steven Soderbergh's earlier films were hailed as the works of an artist. Sadly, Full Frontal plays like the work of a dilettante."
-- Philip Wuntch, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"A weird little movie that's amusing enough while you watch it, offering fine acting moments and pungent insights into modern L.A.'s show-biz and media subcultures. But it doesn't leave you with much."
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"When a set of pre-shooting guidelines a director came up with for his actors turns out to be cleverer, better written and of considerable more interest than the finished film, that's a bad sign. A very bad sign."
-- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Is it a total success? No. Is it something any true film addict will want to check out? You bet."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"Cineasts will revel in those visual in-jokes, as in the film's verbal pokes at everything from the likes of Miramax chief Harvey Weinstein's bluff personal style to the stylistic rigors of Denmark's Dogma movement."
-- Susan Stark, DETROIT NEWS
"Full Frontal, which opens today nationwide, could almost be classified as a movie-industry satire, but it lacks the generous inclusiveness that is the genre's definitive, if disingenuous, feature."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"If Ocean's Eleven was a high-priced banquet of popular guys toasting one another's hard-earned coolness in a pointless caper, Full Frontal is the after-party."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Mr. Soderbergh's direction and visual style struck me as unusually and unimpressively fussy and pretentious."
-- Andrew Sarris, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"The video work is so grainy and rough, so dependent on being 'naturalistic' rather than carefully lit and set up, that it's exhausting to watch."
-- Steven Rosen, DENVER POST
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"One of the worst movies of the year. ... Watching it was painful."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
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