Even if you swear off burgers forever, it won't make Fast Food Nation's characters come to life.
– Dana Stevens,
Slate,
17 Nov 2006
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,
18 Nov 2006
rotten:
To me at least, there were just too many ingredients.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
20 Nov 2006
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,
20 Nov 2006
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.