Fuck
THINKFilm | Release Date: November 10, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
9
Negative:
2

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Film ThreatSally Foster
Provides a highly provocative and humorous overview of a word that, love it or hate it, undoubtedly holds more power than its measly four letters might suggest. All in all, I'd have to say that this film was entertaining as f*ck. Read full review
80
L.A. WeeklyJohn Patterson
Profound and joyously silly at the same time. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
F*ck manages to strip some of the mystique from the forbidden word, and in the end, despite some road bumps, is a satisfying f*lm. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Despite the appearance of numerous free-speaking conservatives, the movie's partisanship leans nakedly to the left. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
A lively and often enlightening documentary. Read full review
70
VarietyJohn Anderson
The offensive word that provides the title for Steven Anderson's penetrating documentary/social critique has either enriched or infected Western culture to the point that we're either drowning in a "floodtide of filth" or blessed with the best verbal relief valve ever devised by man. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
Often surprising and thought-provoking (the urge to euphemize is characterized as a drift away from reality), "****" is as funny and cathartic as the word it celebrates, and nearly as perversely shock-happy. Read full review
70
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
Is this evidence of cultural decline? It's hard to think of a short answer that wouldn't be made more vivid by the insertion of the forbidden word. So skip it. No, not the movie. What, are you kidding me? No way. Go. Help yourself. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
If you're wondering how Steve Anderson managed to make a 93-minute documentary about the ultimate four-letter word, which uses the epithet over 800 times, you're underestimating his capacity to entertain and educate in roughly equal doses. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubNoel Murray
The movie doesn't add much to the culture wars, beyond histrionics from a lot of people who take their causes too f*cking seriously. Read full review
67
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
There's a sense of self-satisfied naughtiness to the film that undercuts any claims it can make to being transgressive. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
The film works best when widening its focus to include the Federal Communications Commission's often baffling and hypocritical stances regarding what's OK to say, or show, on TV and radio, and what isn't. Read full review
60
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
It's essentially a mishmash of random ingredients, not very systematically presented and skewed to flatter its audience's presumed enlightenment. Read full review
50
Village VoiceRob Nelson
Aside from the historically worthy identification of General George S. Patton as a pioneering potty mouth, the film contains little or nothing in the way of surprise. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Examination of one of the English language's most useful utterances and why the sound packs such a friggin' wallop. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Filmmaker Steve Anderson stuffs an astonishing 800-plus mentions of the F-word into this 90-minute documentary. When the spectacle ends, the same question lingers: Why? Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Much ado about nothing much at all. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Often the movie seems like a lot of empty-headed blather, with one side hating the First Amendment and the other side unable to find a better use for it but to say the f-word. Read full review
50
Washington PostStephen Hunter
A documentary on the F-word that manages to amuse superficially until it moves into its seventh hour, at which point it grows wearisome. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jennie Punter
In the end, F*CK is at most a compendium of opinions and examples, and never feels like a story. Still, great casting and inventive visuals make it an entertaining big-screen experience -- and don't expect to catch it later on network television (otherwise it would have to be retitled BL**P). Read full review
50
Seattle Post-IntelligencerBill White
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. Read full review
25
PremiereScott Warren
The film is ultimately so repetitive, un-enlightening and lacking in substance, even Drew Carey seems bored by the end when he asks, "When are you guys going to make the 'c*nt' documentary?" Read full review
25
New York PostLou Lumenick
Rarely has a documentary been so pleased with itself - with so little justification. Read full review
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