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State of Play

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Apr.09] :. In this new universe where facts are mutable and ends are means, so-called ethical triumphs can only be short-term.

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Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 4: All About My Mother to Sleepy Hollow (October - November 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[26.Mar.09] :. Outsiders and oddballs make up Part Four's formidable filmmakers, an idiosyncratic collection of dreamers and visionaries.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

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He’s Just Not That Into You

by Renee Scolaro Mora

[6.Feb.09] :. He’s Just Not That Into You is a standard chick flick, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing: it’s cute and comic and organized according to fixed, mostly ancient gender roles.

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The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview Feature

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: August 2008

by Bill Gibron

[1.May.08] :. Talk about a crowded schedule. There are more offerings scheduled this month than in the previous two combined.

The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview

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Ben Affleck directs new movie rather than stars in it

by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[19.Oct.07] :. When Ben Affleck took the recommendation of several friends and read Dennis Lehane’s novel “Gone Baby Gone,” he immediately started thinking about adapting it into a film. He just...

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The up-and-coming Affleck: younger brother Casey, in 2 new films

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[19.Oct.07] :. TORONTO—Don’t underestimate Casey Affleck, the reedy-voiced, baby-faced actor, who is younger brother to Ben. Like the character he plays in “Gone Baby Gone”—the...

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Gone Baby Gone

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Oct.07] :. Part noir, part moralizing, and part urban-malaisey, the movie offers an assembly of seedy sorts who make Patrick's quest look increasingly hopeless but also ineffably gallant.

Smokin Aces (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Jan.07] :. Smokin' Aces mashes together at least four movies, with all plots and characters spinning around a Vegas card trickster.

Time Encapsulating: The Best DVDs of 2006

by PopMatters Staff

[10.Jan.07] :. From solid single issues to amazingly complete film and television compilations, the works highlighted here argue for DVD's continued importance.

Hollywoodland (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Sep.06] :. Simo is as self-inflating and lost as George Reeves, his heroism as flimsy and sad.

Project Greenlight 3

by Michael Buening

[28.Mar.05] :. The drama that erupts when these high-profile overachievers are put in the same room is far more entertaining than the movies they produce.

Jersey Girl (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Sep.04] :. Affleck and Smith talk lots about shooting details and feelings about their chosen fields, their mutual esteem and affection audible.

Paycheck (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.May.04] :. 'A true hero,' says John Woo on the commentary track for the Paycheck DVD, 'always reaches out a helping hand to others.'"

Jersey Girl (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Mar.04] :. Early in Jersey Girl, Ben Affleck cries. It's a grim and alarming moment.

Paycheck (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Jan.04] :. Michael (Ben Affleck) doesn't set out to control anything: he just wants to get paid.

Gigli (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Dec.03] :. It's tempting to imagine what extras might have been like for a Gigli DVD, given that the film received what had to be the most vehement critical drubbing of any released this past year.

Gigli (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Aug.03] :. His hair slicked back, his face set in an expression resembling impassivity, Larry Gigli (Ben Affleck) tends to philosophize with his marks.

Daredevil (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Jul.03] :. Daredevil has good reasons for his gear, and for the screwed-up attitude that goes with.

Project Greenlight

by Frances Katz

[14.Jul.03] :. The new directors press on and are, by turns, stupid, silly, arrogant, conciliatory, and astonishingly clever.

Daredevil (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Feb.03] :. It's unlikely that this gloominess accounts for Daredevil's big success. There are any number of plausible explanations -- the 'Sexiest Man Alive' and his J. Lo glow, the promotional blitz, the Marvel machine. No matter. Bring the pain.

Daredevil (2003)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[13.Feb.03] :. The good news is that Johnson's Daredevil follows Marvel's disability politics.

Push, Nevada

by Kirsten Markson

[23.Sep.02] :. In Push, Nevada, producers Ben Affleck and Sean Bailey have come up with a show that is, oddly, both original and formulaic.

The Sum of All Fears (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.May.02] :. Tom Clancy's novels and the movies they spawn have never had much truck with credibility.

Changing Lanes (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Apr.02] :. PULL.

Reindeer Games (2000)

by P. Nelson Reinsch

The spirit of world class schlock-horror promoter William Castle was in the theater recently, during a preview screening of Pitch Black, as flashlights were given to a number of audience members.

Pearl Harbor (2001)

by Mike Ward

Pearl Harbor's endorsement of military ideals and barely submerged nostalgia for the war's anti-Japanese racism only abates for a half hour of stunningly rendered shoot-em-up as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and its surrounding airfields takes place.

Dogma (1999)

by Todd R. Ramlow

Kevin Smith's recent offering, Dogma, is truly the cinematic equivalent of Michael Stipe's over-burdened generational angst and swollen lyrics.

Boiler Room (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

You might love a film about unspeakably wealthy whiteboy stock traders that opens by quoting Biggie Smalls. Then again, you might hate it. The citation is surely reverent, but it also reveals a certain confusion concerning early Biggie rhymes, and maybe hip-hop in general.

Bounce (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Bounce is straight in the sense that it stars Ben Affleck and Gwyneth Paltrow, and does not include Opposite of Sex-style bitchiness, much less wily jokes about masturbation, Hollywood morality, and the Planet Maturia.