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Fast Food Nation

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United Kingdom, United States · 2006
Rated R · 1h 56m
Director Richard Linklater
Starring Greg Kinnear, Wilmer Valderrama, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Patricia Arquette
Genre Comedy, Drama

Inspired by author Eric Schlosser's muckraking best-seller of the same name, Fast Food Nation explores the dirty business of fast food in America. It follows Don, a marketing executive for a major fast food chain, who must investigate bombshell claims that their hamburger meat is contaminated with cow manure.

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70

Village Voice by J. Hoberman

A more materialist (and successful) ensemble film than the mystical "Babel," in that everyone is connected through the same economic system, Fast Food Nation is exotic for being a movie about work.

50

The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt

Following up on Morgan Spurlock's wildly successful indie film "Super Size Me," critics of fast food were hoping that a one-two punch would further raise consciousness among consumers and purveyors alike. Alas, Fast Food Nation is punchless.

75

Rolling Stone by Peter Travers

It's less an expose of junk-food culture than a human drama, sprinkled with sly, provoking wit, about how that culture defines how we live.

90

L.A. Weekly by Scott Foundas

Like two of the year's other standout American films, Kelly Reichardt's "Old Joy" and Ryan Fleck's "Half Nelson," it's a movie of ideas in which the ideas flow effortlessly out of the material instead of being plastered on top with a heavy cement roller (as in "Crash," "Babel" and "Little Children").

70

Variety by Todd McCarthy

Richard Linklater's rough-hewn tapestry of assorted lives that feed off of and into the American meat industry is both rangy and mangy; it remains appealing for its subversive motives and revelations even as one wishes its knife would have been sharper.

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