[An] angry and persuasive piece of agitprop...

| Jan 23, 2019

Avril Lavigne even pops up to rail against deforestation. Who knew she could pronounce it?

| Original Score: C+ | May 15, 2009

Though it may well make you vow never to eat a burger again, the film never really holds itself together.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 4, 2007

The stories lack shape, and the procession of famous faces detracts from the low-key, realist tone.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 4, 2007

Engaging and stimulating.

| May 4, 2007

This movie has taken a firebrand book and turned it into a whingeing piece of defeatism.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 4, 2007

Ultimately, Fast Food Nation is preaching to the converted.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 4, 2007

A gross and engrossing attempt to humanise a hot-button subject, using a star-sprinkled cast to reveal some unpalatable truths.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 4, 2007

Rather like a fungus-based meat substitute, this film feels as though it's good for you, but actually there are few lasting benefits.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 1, 2007

It's the performances and Linklater's devotion to them and not just the nation that make this a meal worth eating.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2007

| Original Score: 4/6 | Feb 3, 2007

For slicing through the euphemisms and getting to the heart of the matter, Fast Food Nation is the most important American film of the year.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Nov 22, 2006

The fiction that Schlosser and the director Richard Linklater have extracted from the book is a mess, with narrative lines that go astray or simply wind up in the air.

Full Review | Nov 20, 2006

To me at least, there were just too many ingredients.

Full Review | Nov 20, 2006

| Original Score: C- | Nov 18, 2006

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.

Full Review | Nov 18, 2006

Richard Linklater and Eric Schlosser's noble and worthy film about meat processing and consumption smacks of good-guy agitprop and fails as a character-driven narrative.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 17, 2006

Even if you swear off burgers forever, it won't make Fast Food Nation's characters come to life.

| Nov 17, 2006

Fast Food Nation translates gracelessly to fiction.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Nov 17, 2006

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.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 17, 2006