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Movie critics combined give Fast Food Nation (2006) a score of 2.5072 out of 4
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Fast Food Nation (2006) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Shadows on the Wall (Rich Cline)Shadows on the Wall (Rich Cline)
Happy American families eat at Mickey's! But along the Mexico-U.S. border, immigrants including Raul (Valderrama), his wife Sylvia (Sandino Moreno) and her sister Coco (Talancón) are sneaking across the border. They'll eventually get help from a ...read the complete Fast Food Nation movie review at Shadows on the Wall (Rich Cline)
Fast Food Nation (2006) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Christian Science Monitor (Peter Rainer)Christian Science Monitor (Peter Rainer)
Viewers expecting a blistering attack on the fast-food business, or an Altmanesque panorama, will be disappointed, but it's a sensitive and humane piece of work. ...read the complete Fast Food Nation movie review at Christian Science Monitor (Peter Rainer)
Fast Food Nation (2006) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Minneapolis Star Tribune (Colin Covert)Minneapolis Star Tribune (Colin Covert)
Effectively balanced between the nonfiction muckraking of Eric Schlosser's bestselling exposé and the loosely structured character drama of Richard Linklater's adaptation, the film is fascinating food for thought. ...read the complete Fast Food Nation movie review at Minneapolis Star Tribune (Colin Covert)
Fast Food Nation (2006) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)
You'd have to be either half-crazy or the most talented director alive to make the book into a film. Luckily, the movie version of Fast Food Nation has a man who's both: Richard Linklater. ...read the complete Fast Food Nation movie review at Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)
Fast Food Nation (2006) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Time OutTime Out
Linklater and Eric Schlosser have done a half-cocked job of turning the latter’s well researched, non-fiction invective into a palatable, campaigning drama. Linklater presents three strands that meet in Colorado Springs, the home of both a fictional ...read the complete Fast Food Nation movie review at Time Out
Fast Food Nation (2006) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Boston GlobeBoston Globe
Richard Linklater's "Fast Food Nation" is major. It's an angry movie that could shame a Big Mac lover into having a salad. Yet while it feels like a call to arms, the movie's glamourless style and the conditions it describes are so stark you go home ...read the complete Fast Food Nation movie review at Boston Globe
Fast Food Nation (2006) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Reel.comReel.com
With the smart, funny, and extremely provocative Fast Food Nation, director Richard Linklater confirms that he is one of America's greatest living filmmakers. Certainly he's the most diverse: After helming mainstream studio comedies (School of Rock, ...read the complete Fast Food Nation movie review at Reel.com
Fast Food Nation (2006) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Spirituality & Health (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)Spirituality & Health (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)
Hats off to director Richard Linklater for making this muckracking film in a time when such movies rarely see the light of day. It is based on Eric Schlosser's bestselling 2001 book which paints a scary picture of the fast food industry and its ...read the complete Fast Food Nation movie review at Spirituality & Health (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)
Fast Food Nation (2006) scores a combined 3.75 out of 4 stars for St. Louis Post-DispatchSt. Louis Post-Dispatch
If you like your burger with the works, "Fast Food Nation" is piled high with special ingredients. Adapting Eric Schlosser's nonfiction exposé of the meat-packing industry, director Richard Linklater ("Dazed and Confused") has achieved the feat ...read the complete Fast Food Nation movie review at St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Fast Food Nation (2006) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for LA Weekly (Scott Foundas)LA Weekly (Scott Foundas)
Like two of the year's other standout American films, Kelly Reichardt's "Old Joy" and Ryan Fleck's "Half Nelson," it's a movie of ideas in which the ideas flow effortlessly out of the material instead of being plastered on top with a heavy cement roller ...read the complete Fast Food Nation movie review at LA Weekly (Scott Foundas)
Fast Food Nation (2006) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for ColeSmithey.com (Cole Smithey)ColeSmithey.com (Cole Smithey)
Where this year’s mushy tobacco satire “Thank You For Smoking” failed due to its filmmakers’ refusal to take enough of a stand, “Fast Food Nation” has no such pretense. ...read the complete Fast Food Nation movie review at ColeSmithey.com (Cole Smithey)
Fast Food Nation (2006) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for ViewLondon (Matthew Turner)ViewLondon (Matthew Turner)
Adapted by Eric Schlosser and director Richard Linklater from Schlosser's own non-fiction best-seller, Fast Food Nation is set in the midwestern town of Cody, Colorado and presents several characters with connections to the junk food industry. Greg ...read the complete Fast Food Nation movie review at ViewLondon (Matthew Turner)
Fast Food Nation (2006) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Oregonian (Shawn Levy)Oregonian (Shawn Levy)
The film is finally an uneasy marriage of his diverting technique -- rich performances, great talk, breezy pace -- and a subject too big and (ahem) meaty for him to swallow. ...read the complete Fast Food Nation movie review at Oregonian (Shawn Levy)
Fast Food Nation (2006) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for stylusmagazine.com (Teresa Nieman)stylusmagazine.com (Teresa Nieman)
despite its non-fiction source material and politically-charged poster (complete with biting tagline “Do you want lies with that?”), Richard Linklater’s latest is more an intimate character piece than it is a hard-hitting investigative journalism ...read the complete Fast Food Nation movie review at stylusmagazine.com (Teresa Nieman)
Fast Food Nation (2006) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Sun Newspapers of Cleveland Sun Newspapers of Cleveland
Richard Linklater, who never seems to make the same film twice, directs another unique tale in "Fast Food Nation." This time, he imagines Eric Schlosser's famous nonfiction book. This is not a ...read the complete Fast Food Nation movie review at Sun Newspapers of Cleveland
Fast Food Nation (2006) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie VoiceFilm Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Eric Schlosser’s 2001 non-fiction book “Fast Food Nation” freaked people out when it arrived in bookstores. I mean, the fact that probably 98% of all things pertaining to fast food are bad for you wasn’t exactly news, but it was never spelled out ...read the complete Fast Food Nation movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Fast Food Nation (2006) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Reeling Reviews (Robin and Laura Clifford)Reeling Reviews (Robin and Laura Clifford)
There’s a problem at Mickey’s, America’s most popular fast food chain. It has come to the attention of corporate management that the number one selling burger, The Big One, is being made with contaminated meat. Marketing VP Don Henderson (Greg ...read the complete Fast Food Nation movie review at Reeling Reviews (Robin and Laura Clifford)
Fast Food Nation (2006) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)
A few weeks ago, it was announced by McDonald's that it would be making an unprecedented push towards "class." Amongst other things, it will be installing wireless internet in a large amount of its restaurants and changing décor into a mellow, ...read the complete Fast Food Nation movie review at Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)
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