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Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Fast Food Nation would have benefited from a longer running time -- the movie often feels like it's missing big chunks of plot -- but Linklater's cautionary message gets through. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Those astonished to learn that animals are slaughtered to make hamburgers may well find Richard Linklater's clumsy Fast Food Nation educational; the rest of us may be underwhelmed. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: They say you don't want to see what goes on behind the scenes in the making of sausage or politics. Fast Food Nation blends the two, and the result may not be a very good movie, but it certainly is effectively disgusting. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Fast Food Nation is alternately funny and disturbing, and surprisingly informative, even as it sacrifices some of its strength by lecturing to an audience that might be snacking on fake cheese-covered corn chips and calorie-laden cola. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Fast Food Nation works best when it's just hanging out with its far-flung collection of likable, flawed people living off the fat and the lean of the land. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Fast Food Nation gives you much to chew on and much to expel, but at least you'll be sick for a healthy cause. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: For all the filmmaker's good intentions, Fast Food Nation isn't a particularly good movie. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: To me at least, there were just too many ingredients. Read more
Bob Townsend, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: What's most frustrating about Fast Food Nation is how much it promises and how little it delivers. Read more
Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: [A] sloppy, overarching fiction that tries to do too many things at once. It's like a three-ring circus in which none of the acts is terribly interesting. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston 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. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: Linklater defines his characters by their relationships, hopes, choices and weaknesses -- not, as so many directors do, by their particular socioeconomic circumstances. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Linklater and Schlosser have plenty to say. They just fail to say it cohesively. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: 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 more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: Too many story threads are consistently ignored or dropped altogether. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Naturally, a subject this right-on draws a right-on cast. Read more
Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: Avril Lavigne even pops up to rail against deforestation. Who knew she could pronounce it? Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: A study of contamination in the food chain and in the culture at large, whether the offending microbes spill forth from cattle intestines, the corridors of corporate power or the seat of government. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: The unstoppable director Richard Linklater (A Scanner Darkly) and writer Eric Schlosser take the latter's nonfiction bestseller and rig up a fictitious, sprawling narrative to take up the book's scathing talking points. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Indigestible. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: No question, these are alarming issues, but I would direct you to Schlosser's book. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: The film adaptation of Eric Schlossers best-selling book is far too rich and complicated to be understood as a simple, high-minded polemic. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: A serious subject; a director who loves to listen to people talk things out; and the nightmare this must have been in the editing booth, play out in front of us in 100 of the longest minutes you might ever spend in a theater. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: One leaves the theater certain what Linklater's theme was but uncertain why it was presented so ineffectively. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: To a degree, Fast Food Nation gets the job done, not least because of a harrowing section, late in the film, made up of actual slaughterhouse footage. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: Even if you swear off burgers forever, it won't make Fast Food Nation's characters come to life. Read more
Jason McBride, Globe and Mail: A frustratingly toothless film whose heart is in the right place even if its head isn't. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Unlike the book it's based on, Fast Food Nation won't make you think twice about what you eat. But it may make you think second thoughts about whether it might have made a better documentary. Read more
Dave Calhoun, Time Out: While the original book assumed an adult level of intelligence, the film pitches itself squarely at the sort of American teenager who would be shocked to learn that a fast food chain was anything but a pillar of the local community. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: In the end, viewers waiting for an emotional and/or dramatic payoff will be disappointed. As a call-to-arms, it's highly sympathetic but surprisingly mild-mannered. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Fast Food Nation is exotic for being a movie about work. Its characters struggle with some of the world's dirtiest jobs -- morally as well as physically. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: Fast Food Nation works far better as journalism than as drama. Read more