Soderbergh is so busy trying to create his movie-within-a-movie -- and, in at least one instance, his movie-within- a-movie-within -a-movie -- that he botches the enclosing movie.
– Peter Rainer,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
11 Aug 2002
rotten:
The best you can say about Full Frontal, an ensemble piece that flirts with ideas about illusion and reality, is that the movie qualifies as a failed experiment.
– Robert Denerstein,
Denver Rocky Mountain News,
9 Aug 2002
rotten:
A boring, amateurish, incomprehensible and stupefyingly pretentious pile of swill.
– Rex Reed,
New York Observer,
8 Aug 2002
rotten:
Mr. Soderbergh's direction and visual style struck me as unusually and unimpressively fussy and pretentious.
– Andrew Sarris,
New York Observer,
8 Aug 2002
rotten:
Full Frontal is like the 'Special Features' disc of the DVD without the original movie.