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An Education: Carey Mulligan Comes of Age

by Matt Mazur

[13.Nov.09] :. Danish director Lone Scherfig spares audiences the trite clichés of a young woman's coming of age, directs a magnificent cast of actors, and defends her film against allegations of inappropriate sexuality.

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The Pink Panther 2

by Renee Scolaro Mora

[6.Feb.09] :. Much of the “comedy” in The Pink Panther 2 is a rehashing of the jokes from the first film.

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The Lodger

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Jan.09] :. David Ondaatje's movie offers up a series of potentially interesting meta-texts, concerning the significantly named Manning's obsession and aggression, his professional identity and, of course, masculinity.

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Nothing Like the Holidays

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Dec.08] :. Nothing Like the Holidays is like a lot of other holiday movies.

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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: November 2008

by Bill Gibron

[11.Sep.08] :. Like the sainted sigh of relief that comes after another shriek-filled All Hallow's Eve, November usually means the start of the 'nominate me' process for the proposed prestige pictures of 2008.

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Indiana Jones: The Adventure Collection

by Chris Barsanti

[27.May.08] :. There should be room in our collective imagination for a hero who makes mistakes, lots of them, and still saves the day -- these are films that should be owned.

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Silk

by Jake Meaney

[26.Mar.08] :. A beautiful movie. So very, very beautiful. Achingly beautiful, excruciatingly beautiful, tear-inducingly beautiful.

The Hoax

by Matt Mazur

[15.Nov.07] :. The film does not shy away from the innate unlikability of its leading man and it also explores, cannily, the damage one person’s dishonesty can inflict upon everyone around them.

William Shakespeare’s As You Like It

by Jesse Hicks

[21.Aug.07] :. The play's untidiness -- it's one of Shakespeare's most mischievous -- virtually guarantees a final product distinguished by individual performances rather than dramatic consistency.

Spider-Man 2.1 - Unrated, Extended Cut (2004)

by Bill Gibron

[27.Apr.07] :. While Spider-Man 2.1 may add a few more dollars to the company coffers, it's definitely not doing the Spider Man series – or the digital domain – any real favors.

Richard Gere scams in ‘The Hoax’

by Joe Neumaier [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[6.Apr.07] :. In his new film “The Hoax,” Richard Gere does a lot of fast-talking. As Clifford Irving, one of the most notorious scam artists the last century ever produced, Gere—wearing a bit of...

The Hoax (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Apr.07] :. Even as The Hoax works to wring emotional consequence from its many layers of lies, you're hard-pressed to believe it.

The Da Vinci Code (2006)

by Marc Acherman

[12.Nov.06] :. If religion, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, is the fashionable substitute for belief, then The Da Vinci Code, judging by author Dan Brown’s quasi religious following, has asserted itself as the fashionable substitute for religion

The Da Vinci Code

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.May.06] :. In straining to make its spaces and secrets 'scary', Da Vinci literalizes thoughts and dreams, and abandons mystery and nuance.

Luther (2003)

by Tim O'Neil

[28.Dec.04] :. This is the type of movie you can imagine history teachers embracing, on account of the facile and accessible way it tackles the subject matter.

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Dec.04] :. Uncomfortable with his abilities (they have come on him like a virus), Peter repeatedly returns to his central question: Who am I?"

Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Sep.04] :. Coffee and Cigarettes is a return, of sorts, for Jim Jarmusch.

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Jul.04] :. Though Spider-Man plainly enjoys saving kids from danger and even instructing them ('Hey you guys! No playing in the street'), he also longs for a more regular, selfish life.

Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.May.04] :. Coffee and Cigarettes is a return, of sorts, for Jim Jarmusch.

Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)

by Jesse Hassenger

[13.May.04] :. On its own terms, Coffee and Cigarettes is an effective addiction movie, self-indulgent but also familiar and low-key.

Identity (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Sep.03] :. As James Mangold neatly puts it, these characters are running along 'a kind of Möbius strip of hell.'"

Identity (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Apr.03] :. Amanda Peet, not incidentally, throws some fine, even sublime, attitude.

Frida (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[31.Oct.02] :. Julie Taymor's Frida pulses with color.

Chocolat (2000)

by Dale Leech

If Lasse Hallström’s Chocolat were a Disney film, it would be Beauty and the Beast. Both are set in quaint mountainside hamlets filled with close-minded people who are led by...