Fuck (2006)

3.5/4

Maybe f*** is a bad word because we don't know where or how it started; who knows? Maybe we're just too f***ing sensitive...

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07/09/08

4/5

This isn't really a documentary so much as a celebration -- of one word's power to twist people in knots.

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02/13/08

2.5/4

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07/14/07

3.5/5

This film is probably not going to change anyone's view about this particular word, but it is an interesting, informative, and often entertaining take on the subject.

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03/09/07

8/10

Anderson's film is surprisingly amusing, as well as insightful, even if viewers have to sit through about 800 uses of the word in the 90-minute film.

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01/05/07

N/A

Fascinating.

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12/30/06

2/4

Anderson's jumpy editing fails to cover up the fact that he only has 30 good minutes of material here.

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12/16/06

2/4

The inclusion of the porn footage and supposedly comical cartoons (by Bill Plympton) don't really add anything to the film. In fact, they're shockingly irrelevant.

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12/15/06

N/A

What's great about the documentary is the mix of people Anderson interviews for opinions and insights.

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12/10/06

3/4

Anderson's glib approach is to the movie's advantage, allowing anything profound to seem unexpected.

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12/08/06

2/4

But in the end, F*CK is at most a compendium of opinions and examples, and never feels like a story.

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12/01/06

3/5

As a history of the ultimate epithet, F--- falls somewhat short, tracing its use to the 15th century but failing to pin down its origins. It's on surer ground as a free-speech quasi-polemic, with its talking-head debate format.

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12/01/06

B-

It doesn't all cohere and it doesn't make any point that you couldn't have predicted before it began. There's a sense of self-satisfied naughtiness to the film that undercuts any claims it can make to being transgressive.

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12/01/06

C

The most dishonest thing about this ranting montage of a movie is its technique of panning between opposing viewpoints to simulate debate, when in fact each of the more than 35 celebrities was separately interviewed.

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12/01/06

2.5/4

But F*** gives short shrift to a question that many moviegoers may well ponder: How, exactly, has this word become a substitute for wit, or, in many movies, for dialogue?

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12/01/06

3/4

If anything, the most vivid impression created by the movie is how much fun the word's use can potentially be and how its power is inevitably emboldened in direct proportion to the forces of decency lined up against it.

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12/01/06

N/A

... It's a mere 90-some minutes long; it only feels like seven hours.

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11/30/06

3.5/5

... manages to strip some of the mystique from the forbidden word, and in the end, despite some road bumps, is a satisfying film.

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11/30/06

B

Keeps a buoyant tone and a fast pace, flitting from one angle to another rapidly and including a lot of raucous humor along the way.

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11/29/06

4.5/5

Obviously this film is going to be rated NC-17, to protect children who have already used the term hundreds of times a month, from hurting their dear little ears with the horrid profanity.

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11/18/06