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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

 

Film DVD Review

3:10 to Yuma

by Jarrett Berman

[4.Feb.08] :. As a genre piece, Mangold’s remake satisfies the requisite clichés (sweeping desert vistas, corseted women, ample gunplay), but not much else.

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

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Male

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Jan.08] :. From the tender and eerie precision of Sam Riley's depiction of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis in Control to yet another superlative performance by Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, PopMatters highlights the best male actors of 2007.

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

 

Film Review

30 Days of Night

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Oct.07] :. The most impressive effect in 30 Days of Night is Danny Huston's haircut.

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The talents behind ‘3:10 to Yuma’ hope the Western will ride again

by Dixie Reid [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[7.Sep.07] :. SAN FRANCISCO—Meanwhile, back at the hotel ... After a photo shoot staged at Marin County, Calif., horse stables, James Mangold and Peter Fonda are back at the hotel. Like gunfighters at high...

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Film Review

3:10 to Yuma

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Sep.07] :. All the men in this movie think they're doing the right thing, no matter how unhinged their actions may look.

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Alpha Dog (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Jan.07] :. The film identifies a limited range of possible "reasons" for the murder, most having to do with ignorance, by the victim, the aggressors, the parents, and the 30 some "witnesses," numbered on screen.

 

X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.May.06] :. It's a superhero movie, so all these choices involve massive destruction -- buildings disintegrating, fireballs flying, bodies detonating.

 

Hostage (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Jun.05] :. More disturbingly, Hostage is about the failure of certainty.

 

Hostage (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Mar.05] :. The crisis begins with a clash between rich people and a trio of conventionally coded 'delinquents'.

 

The Punisher (2004)

by Stephen Rauch

[12.May.04] :. It is a revenge story, and while we shy away from revenge as a valid motive, at least we still understand it.

 

The Punisher (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Apr.04] :. Ungainly and grim, the movie is loaded with comic-book heroic clichés and explosive effects.

 

Northfork (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Jul.03] :. Challenges U.S. myths of enduring national identity, corporate good will, and westward-ho expansions.

 

Liberty Heights (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

This sign, set outside a suburban Baltimore country club in 1954, appears early in Barry Levinson's Liberty Heights, establishing at once the irony of its title (the name of a suburban Jewish neighborhood where its protagonists reside) and the film's focus on the insidious workings of prejudice, ranging from conspicuous to subtle.