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…
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08/26/02
Full Frontal (2002)
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Reviews Counted:139
Fresh:51
Rotten:88
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: An confusing movie made worse by the poor camera work.
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Genre: Dramas
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... [More]
Starring: Julia Roberts, Blair Underwood, Catherine Keener, David Duchovny
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Reviews for Full Frontal
Full Frontal has some fun parts, but the sum of them never adds up to much.
08/22/02
I will recommend it to anyone wanting to see something different.
08/22/02
Works because it is unafraid to be so open, rough and unresolved.
08/20/02
Those hankering for something different will find Full Frontal a tasty trifle.
08/16/02
Given how heavy-handed and portent-heavy it is, this could be the worst thing Soderbergh has ever done.
08/16/02
Once I got used to the deliberately atrocious cinematography, I found the film playful, funny, sometimes even sweet.
08/12/02
Steven Soderbergh overpowers himself in proving the point that directors are way too controlling. Have a few issues, do we?
08/12/02
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.
08/11/02
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?
08/11/02
Soderbergh is so busy trying to create his movie-within-a-movie -- and, in at least one instance, his movie-within- a-movie-within -a-movie -- that he botches the enclosing movie.
08/11/02
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08/10/02
Top CriticThe best you can say about Full Frontal, an ensemble piece that flirts with ideas about illusion and reality, is that the movie qualifies as a failed experiment.
08/09/02
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.
08/08/02
A boring, amateurish, incomprehensible and stupefyingly pretentious pile of swill.
08/08/02
Mr. Soderbergh's direction and visual style struck me as unusually and unimpressively fussy and pretentious.
08/08/02
Unfortunately, what Soderbergh's ended up with looks and feels like a half-baked John Cassavettes film where everyone improvises their dialogue.
08/07/02
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08/07/02
Having it both ways; Soderbergh and some Hollywood elite go ‘Full Frontal’
08/06/02
A full-frontal attack on audience patience.
08/06/02
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July 24, 2002:
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February 06, 2002:
Without the distractions of big-budget moviemaking, Soderbergh could focus intensely on dramatic work with his actors, which is fitting for such a dramatically intense movie.
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