Fresh
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.
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Fast Food Nation
Do you want lies with that?
2006 · 1h 56m · R
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Richard Linklater
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Fast Food Nation
Overview
A dramatised examination of the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food.
Director and cast
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49%
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Rotten
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.
David Denby, New Yorker
Rotten
To me at least, there were just too many ingredients.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Fresh
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.
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Rotten
Even if you swear off burgers forever, it won't make Fast Food Nation's characters come to life.
Dana Stevens, Slate
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