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Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

by Matthew Sorrento

[5.Jun.08] :. What a quirky pair of brothers do Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke make.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.08] :. From Julian Schnabel's artsy The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to the legendary Coen Brothers splendid adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, PopMatters counts down the 30 best films of 2007.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

 
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Under the Volcano

by Matt Mazur

[7.Dec.07] :. Under the Volcano is Golden Age craftsmanship at its peak with a decidedly modern edge that shows, again, that the vintage director’s eye is one that often improves with age.

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Sidney Lumet knows how to get some satisfaction

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[9.Nov.07] :. “It’s not one of your average feel-good movies,” says Sidney Lumet with a satisfied grin, speaking of his latest—the ferociously dark, wildly entertaining, “Before the...

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Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Oct.07] :. Family tensions run high throughout Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.

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Film Review

Amazing Grace (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Feb.07] :. The movie's thematic insistence on seeing takes shape through slavery, a horrible moral blight even if it's off-screen in the colonies and not in London with our heroes.

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A Good Year (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Nov.06] :. As lovely as she may be, Fanny has her work cut out for her in A Good Year.

 

Big Fish (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Apr.04] :. Edward's persistent self-inflation frustrates Will, just as its contradictions appeal to Burton.

 

Annie (1982)

by Justin Ravitz

[1.Mar.04] :. She may have been a multimedia moppet, skipping from comic strip to radio to Broadway, but Little Orphan Annie is no movie star.

 

Big Fish (2003)

by Jesse Hassenger

[8.Jan.04] :. Edward is less obviously an outsider than Burton's other Edwards (Scissorhands and Wood), but equally filled with a winning sense of wonder.

 

The Gathering Storm

by Tracy McLoone

[7.May.02] :. The point in 'The Gathering Storm' is that Churchill is 'human', that he has faults.

 

Erin Brockovich (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

What is it about a picture of Julia Roberts with a baby on her hip that seems so irresistible? This would be, of course, one of the images that’s become so instantly familiar through its heavy...