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Fuck (2006)
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Reviews Counted:71
Fresh:40
Rotten:31
Average Rating:5.8/10
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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Reviews for Fuck
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As Lenny Bruce famously pointed out, fuck is an important word because, "if you can't say fuck, you can't say fuck the government." Full Review |
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 2/5 |
As well as being humdrum, this is past its sell-by date: the film is a product of the Bush years, with the liberals making all the old complaints about Dubya’s encouragement of cultural puritanism. Full Review |
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Smug, shallow, repetitive, unilluminating and rarely funny. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Despite its flaws, Fuck does manage to leave you energised and determined to fight to the death to defend freedom of speech – or at least sit back and fire off a few swear words of your own in celebration. Shit, piss, fuck, etc… Full Review |
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2/5 |
It's all reasonable but unoriginal stuff. Full Review |
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2/5 |
This could have been far more illuminating, challenging, or at the very least entertaining. Full Review |
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1/6 |
The insight-neutral scrag ends of what feels like ten decent documentaries on censorship, semantics, social policy and broadcasting coalesce in this painfully self-satisfied and poorly made ‘shock-doc’. Full Review |
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3/5 |
More of a TV documentary than a movie, but there's enough good stuff here to keep you from cussing. Full Review |
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1/5 |
An example of the very worst kind of documentary film-making. The picture contains no insight, no research and no etymological answers. It is simply a string of choppily edited interviews with comedians, porn actors and the morally outraged. Full Review |
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A moderately amusing documentary about the second most offensive word in the English language. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Entertaining documentary with an admirable array of talking heads, though it doesn't dig nearly as deep as you'd expect and contains some baffling omissions. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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4/5 |
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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... Full Review |
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4/5 |
This isn't really a documentary so much as a celebration -- of one word's power to twist people in knots. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Fascinating. Full Review |
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