Articles tagged "benjamin bratt"

Film Review

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Nov.07] :. Fermina remains a cipher, an object in Juvenal's possession and of Florentino's endless affection without an emotional life of her own.

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DVD Film Review

Abandon (2002)

by Brian Holcomb

[26.Jul.07] :. This is one of the best horror films in some time; not sacrificing itself to irony or parody but committed to the dark corners of human nature and the complex labyrinths that exist in the mind.

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DVD Film Review

The Great Raid: The Director’s Cut (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Jan.06] :. Archive shots of broken, diseased, and starved bodies provide a devastating illustration of the history that drives the film's fictions.

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TV Review

E-Ring

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Jan.06] :. Hopper plays McNulty with all kinds of pro-military gusto, though he's perpetually pissed off at the administration, because civilians tend to miss points and tactics.

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TV Review

E-Ring

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Sep.05] :. No one else could make this dialogue sound like poetry quite like Dennis Hopper, so misfitted for his role as a Pentagon Colonel that he seems perversely perfect.

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Film Review

The Great Raid (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Aug.05] :. The relationship between heroism and villainy remains reductive, subjective, and devastatingly predictable.

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The Woodsman (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Apr.05] :. Director Kassell says, 'There's Kyra Sedgwick beating the shit out of Carlos Leon. I love this scene.'"

The Woodsman (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Jan.05] :. Walter (Kevin Bacon) lives in a world perpetually gray.

Catwoman (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Jul.04] :. The women on either side of the film's imaginary moral divide are both gorgeous and potent, both capable of cruel violence, and both dedicated to their own desires.

Abandon (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Oct.02] :. Cynical and beautiful. No wonder the boys can't resist her.

Miss Congeniality (2000)

by Lesley Smith

Any director who imagines the slender acting talent of Benjamin Bratt (late of TV's 'Law & Order') can sustain the male lead, FBI agent and atavistic prig Eric Matthews (particularly opposite the gloriously charismatic Bullock) requires instant re-immersion in Casting 101.

The Next Best Thing (2000)

by Todd R. Ramlow

I must admit, against all my better judgment, I actually rather enjoyed Madonna's new film, The Next Best Thing.

Piñero (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The first scene in Leon Ichaso's biographical film, 'Piñero', sets up a complex series of relationships between the artist and his demons -- or more pointedly, between the artist and the various audiences he sought to influence and astonish.

Red Planet (2000)

by Todd R. Ramlow

WARNING: The following review contains plot spoilers. Dud Planet Red Planet is freshman director Antony Hoffman’s entry into the most recent spate of films that have...