Anderson's glib approach is to the movie's advantage, allowing anything profound to seem unexpected.
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:10
Rotten:11
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: A documentary that sets out to explore a lingual taboo but can't escape its own naughty posturing.
Theatrical Release:Nov 10, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: This challenging and provocative documentary takes a look on all sides of the infamous F-word. Its taboo, obscene and controversial, yet somehow seems to permeate every single aspect of our culture... [More]
Starring: Steven Bochco, Pat Boone, Drew Carey, Billy Connolly
Director: Steve Anderson
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Top CriticBut in the end, F*CK is at most a compendium of opinions and examples, and never feels like a story.
12/01/06
Top CriticIf 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.
12/01/06
Top Critic... It's a mere 90-some minutes long; it only feels like seven hours.
11/30/06
Top CriticTried and true bad arguments are advanced.
11/17/06
Top CriticFar smarter fun with filth, though, can be found in The Aristocrats.
11/17/06
Top CriticOn the whole Anderson's film feels a decade or two behind the culture's cutting edge.
11/16/06
Top CriticIf 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.
11/16/06
Top CriticThe 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.
11/16/06
Top CriticPenetrating, revelatory, thought-provoking and entertaining.
11/14/06
Top CriticBy the end, it's espousing a point of view so lazily, reflexively liberal (and demonstrably addle-pated) you'd almost think the whole thing had been secretly directed by the right wing just to embarrass the left.
11/14/06
Top CriticSteve Anderson's rowdy and contentious new documentary pits the upholders of propriety against the proponents of free expression in a battle over just one word.
11/10/06
Top CriticRarely has a documentary been so pleased with itself -- with so little justification -- as Steve Anderson's repetitive and unenlightening F - - k.
11/10/06
Top Critic90 minutes is too much time to devote to a four-letter word, even one with as many diverse uses and conjugations as this one.
11/10/06
Top CriticProving that any subject is grist for the current documentary mill, Steve Anderson's film provides a comprehensive portrait of the expletive that some people find gravely offensive and that others find to be one of the most wonderful and versatile words.
11/10/06
Top CriticAs funny and cathartic as the word it celebrates, and nearly as perversely shock-happy.
11/09/06
Top CriticF--- branches out into a discussion of decency, ranging from David Caruso's bare butt on "NYPD Blue" to Janet Jackson's Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction. At this point, the movie has lost its initial focus.
11/09/06
Top CriticIt's going to be an entertaining and successful big-city date movie, let's say that. But it's essentially a mishmash of random ingredients, not very systematically presented and skewed to flatter its audience's presumed enlightenment.
11/08/06
Top CriticEveryone uses the four-letter word, not many publications (including EW) print it: That's one marketing hook for this goofily overproduced, frivolous documentary.
11/08/06
Top CriticTwelve-year-olds might get a charge out of this purportedly daring documentary celebration of the F-word, although it never occurs to filmmaker Steve Anderson that it might be fun or even genuinely lewd to interview kids on the subject.
11/07/06
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