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Film Review

Inkheart

by Lesley Smith

[26.Jan.09] :. The screenplay follows a listless episodic structure, in which one barely connected segment follows another without cumulatively charging the overarching story.

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Katrin Cartlidge: The Working Actress

by Matt Mazur

[29.Aug.08] :. Whether it was through silence, grotesquerie, fury or intelligence (or, at times, lack of intelligence), Cartlidge was not afraid to upturn the dark corners of the women she portrayed.

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DVDs Feature

Kids’ DVDs: June 2007

by Roger Holland

[6.Jun.07] :. Given that babies and young children love nothing more than repetition, repetition, and... um.... repetition, I can't understand why even the pointiest of heads would think children between the ages of six months and three years could possible need 23 different Baby Einstein DVDs.

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Film DVD Review

The Prestige (2006)

by Jesse Hassenger

[15.Mar.07] :. Fans of this wonderful film are left to puzzle not just over its thematic and narrative layers, but its respectable but perfunctory treatment here.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2006 Feature

The Pay Off: The Best Film of 2006

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.07] :. For many of the movies on PopMatters' 2006 list of the year's best films, it is clear that a heavy personal and professional stake was riding on the final product.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2006

 

Film Review

Flushed Away (2006)

by Daynah Burnett

[8.Nov.06] :. Droll and unfortunately titled, Flushed Away marks a point of no return for British animated films.

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The Prestige (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Oct.06] :. This trick -- The Transported Man -- is at the center of the film's thematic concerns with replication, movement, and deception.

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King Kong (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Dec.05] :. Jackson's film makes Ann's admiration for Kong an earnest distraction from her eventual, proper coupledom with Jack (who, even with Brody's Men's Health coverboy abs, can't compete with the potent spectacle of Kong).

 

13 Going on 30 (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Aug.04] :. Jennifer Garner embodies a joy that's all too rare on recent movie screens, in adults or kids.

 

13 Going on 30 (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Apr.04] :. 13 Going on 30 is best when it's adorable.

 

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Dec.03] :. No in-betweeners in this reductive view of the world: characters and choices are good or evil.

 

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Dec.02] :. It's useful to remember that, offscreen, both good and bad tend to be tricksy.