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Fast Food Nation has the dramatic flatness and willful lack of personality of some documentaries -- or at least how Linklater thinks a documentary should be. The movie nonetheless feels like both a work of investigative journalism and an immense human-interest story, veering into muckraking, horror, teen comedy, and what passes for "Twilight Zone" science fiction.Full Review

Wesley Morris
Boston Globe

Naturally, a subject this right-on draws a right-on cast. Kris Kristofferson, Avril Lavigne, and Ethan Hawke pitch in.Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly

It's a mirror and a portrait, and a movie as necessary and nourishing as your next meal.Full Review

A.O. Scott
The New York Times

If Linklater regards the fake culture that has replaced real places with horror, he has nothing but respect and affection for his characters, and the movie is rescued from nihilism by his humanistic view.Full Review

Carina Chocano
Los Angeles Times

Fast Food Nation picks up, and drops off, various members of its cast, sometimes without a satisfying resolution. But its final scenes, inside a real working meatpacking plant, on the killing floor, are brutally to the point.Full Review

Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer
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