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Elegy

by Matt Mazur

[26.Mar.09] :. Coixet’s examination of age and the natural process of dying are refracted through a spectrum of cultures, ages, experiences and fears that are atypical of contemporary American films.

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The Wackness

by Barbara Herman

[22.Jan.09] :. Ultimately, this film is neither dope nor wack — it’s just kind of boring.

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Outside the Lines - The Top 20 International/Indie Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[15.Jan.09] :. With many indie/international films receiving more and more mainstream approval from unfamiliar audiences, many of the titles here could be considered part of the overall 2008 Best Of. But their individuality and multicultural appeal keep them a quality concept apart.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

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‘Transsiberian’ Serves Up Old School Suspense

by Bill Gibron

[29.Aug.08] :. The little lie begins the deceit. Soon, the lack of truth clouds everything - from love to legality. Within days, loyalties which once seemed firm are tested, while newfound friendships provide the...

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The Wackness (2008)

by Bill Gibron

[1.Aug.08] :. For filmmakers, nostalgia is a double edged sword. Pick the right era, and audiences are with you and your cinematic wistfulness. Dress things up in the wrong period, however, and you threaten to...

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Transsiberian

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Jul.08] :. Transsiberian makes provocative connections between external and internal states, the ways that composition can reveal character.

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China’s Stolen Children

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Jul.08] :. For his remarkable documentary, filmmaker Jezza Neumann spent three and half months posing as a tourist in order to obtain undercover footage of victims, traffickers, and buyers.

The Wackness

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Jul.08] :. The Wackness is a too familiar nostalgic movie, with period soundtrack, hot summer nights, and boys coming of age.

The Love Guru

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Jun.08] :. Both frantic and tedious, The Love Guru piles on the slapdash offenses.

Hin-Don’t

by Bill Gibron

[19.Jun.08] :. It stands as one of the most unusual, and blinkered, boycotts ever. For the last few months, self-proclaimed Indo-American leader Rajan Zed has been waging a one man campaign against Mike...

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: July 2008

by Bill Gibron

[30.Apr.08] :. And it just doesn't stop. If part two in this three-ring play was packed with well hyped product, July just keeps the receipt treats coming.

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: June 2008

by Bill Gibron

[29.Apr.08] :. If May almost tent-poled itself out of existence, June will be even worse. After all, are audiences really ready for 13 major release in less than two months -- with more to come?

You Kill Me

by Shaun Huston

[19.Oct.07] :. An alcoholic hit man is sent to San Francisco by his “family” to achieve sobriety. You Kill Me is another “mobster in therapy” movie, but with a fresh perspective.

The Last Legion

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Aug.07] :. The leaps of faith in The Last Legion are many, but once you've made one or two, Bollywood superstar Aishwarya Rai seems as likely a super-lethal fighter as Mr. Darcy.

You Kill Me (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Jun.07] :. While he's largely unsocialized, having spent so much time alone, murdering people, and, lately, drinking, Frank does evince a weird charm.

Gandhi (25th Anniversary Edition) (1982)

by Shaun Huston

[6.Apr.07] :. The filmmakers tend to aestheticize, rather than dramatize, Gandhi's politics, but despite its superficialities, Gandhi remains eminently watchable a quarter of a century after its original release.

Lucky Number Slevin (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Apr.06] :. Despite the title of the movie he lives in, Slevin (Josh Hartnett) is only partly lucky.

BloodRayne (2006)

by Bill Gibron

[13.Jan.06] :. The main special effect is something called the slash and spray -- a sword slice across the torso that causes a fountain-like torrent of arterial goodness.

Oliver Twist (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Sep.05] :. Oliver is an emblem of Polanski's own thematic obsessions: human cruelty, alienation and dislocation, and above all, identity fragmentation.

A Sound of Thunder (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Sep.05] :. The team has a plan by which all this devastation will be erased. If only the same might be done for A Sound of Thunder.

Suspect Zero (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Apr.05] :. Part derivative, part original, and part twisted, the film quotes obviously from other serial killer films, beginning with its first shot.

Suspect Zero (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Sep.04] :. Suspect Zero opens with a barrage of standard serial killer movie components.

Thunderbirds (2004)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[30.Jul.04] :. The only possible reason I can see for this screen version is the marketing opportunities embodied by the Thunderbirds themselves and their 'super-advanced technology' ships and gadgets.

Tuck Everlasting (2002)

by Amy Sidwar

[10.Oct.02] :. While the book is laced with a youthful sense of wonder concerning life and death, the film is a troubled teenage love story.

What Planet Are You From? (2000)

by Anne Daughtery

There are great films; some of them win Oscars. There are truly bad films; some of them attract cult followings. Then there are mediocre films. And What Planet Are You From? is mediocrity at...

Sexy Beast (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Granted, psycho villains per se are not news. But that's sort of the point with Don -- perversely, he's hyper-aware of his ordinariness, his conformity to expectations of the people around him who submit and look away when he's in the room, like you're told to do when a mad dog approaches.

Rules of Engagement (2000)

by Mike Ward

Two years ago, many critics praised Saving Private Ryan as a new kind of war film that brought the horrors of war home with an unprecedented, visceral intensity..