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The Tale of Despereaux (2008)

by Bill Gibron

[5.Apr.09] :. As a rule of cinematic thumb, in the CG genre, there’s Pixar…and then there’s everyone else. Or sure, some studios - Fox, Dreamworks - can claim massive commercial success, and the...

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The Tale of Despereaux

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Dec.08] :. The movie starts with a cute sleight-of-handy gimmick, the sort that assumes a canny audience who’s a step ahead of regular narrative conventions.

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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: December 2008

by Bill Gibron

[12.Sep.08] :. Just like the end of an inspiring speech that may or may not succeed in making its point, these final four weeks before 2009 tend to define or defeat the entire awards season purpose.

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview

Film DVD Review

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

by Jesse Hassenger

[19.Aug.08] :. So likable that many can only describe the experience of watching it in terms of clouds and frosting.

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Stop-Loss

by Tiffany White

[7.Aug.08] :. Realism doesn't make a better movie, just a more sensitive one.

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Stop-Loss

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Mar.08] :. In Brandon's confrontations with his own delusions, Stop-Loss focuses on unhealthy rituals of manhood and male community recalling Peirce's Boys Don't Cry.

Margot at the Wedding

by Jesse Hassenger

[6.Mar.08] :. Vivid impressions that make us look closely into Baumbach's fascinating, semi-miserable world.

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Mar.08] :. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day sends a lonely, sanctimonious governess from dejection to delight within a mere 24 hours.

There will be confusion: Deliberately vague films leave critic cold

by Christopher Kelly [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[24.Feb.08] :. Walking out of a press screening of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” in early November, I turned to a fellow critic in the hopes that he might explain a plot point that...

A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.08] :. From Julian Schnabel's artsy The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to the legendary Coen Brothers splendid adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, PopMatters counts down the 30 best films of 2007.

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Female

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Jan.08] :. From the most sweetly nuanced performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh's career to Cate Blanchett's revelatory portrayal of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, the women of 2007 were stellar.

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.

To his latest director, Daniel Day-Lewis is ‘the man’

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[4.Jan.08] :. “Maybe it’s presumptuous to say this, but from a director’s point of view he’s the Holy Grail of actors, isn’t he? At least he always was to me. Like, `that’s the...

Brothers and sisters bare their fangs on the big screen

by Chris Vognar [The Dallas Morning News (MCT)]

[5.Dec.07] :. It’s that time of year when intimate strangers come over to eat large birds and drain your liquor cabinet. You know these people from childhood, but your lives have diverged since then. They...

A couple who collaborated on a ‘Wedding’

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[29.Nov.07] :. Noah Baumbach and Jennifer Jason Leigh have been married for a little over two years. And they were an item for a while before that. When Baumbach had “The Squid and the Whale”...

Nicole Kidman probed deep for ‘Margot at the Wedding’

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[21.Nov.07] :. “I responded to the wicked comedy of it. And the way in which it sort of disturbs you, gets under your skin,” says Nicole Kidman, speaking about “Margot at the Wedding.”...

Margot at the Wedding

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Nov.07] :. Margot at the Wedding doesn’t resolve as much as it devolves into a series of arguments and dire revelations.

The Nativity Story (2006)

by Matt Mazur

[9.Apr.07] :. Unlike the story from which it derives, there is no "oomph". There is no sense of danger. There is no excitement.

Rome

by Todd R. Ramlow

[17.Jan.07] :. The lofty political rhetoric disguising base power-grabbing in Rome is all too familiar in a contemporary US context.

The Nativity Story (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Dec.06] :. When word of Catherine Hardwicke's attachment to The Nativity Story first surfaced, the possibilities swirled: what if the film reimagined the about-14-year-old Mary as a recognizable teenager?

Miami Vice (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Jul.06] :. Gong Li's face and form are made for this: she absorbs the movie's energies and just like that, it hardly matters what Crockett or Tubbs thinks he's doing.

Munich (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Dec.05] :. Munich is about the shifting meaning the city's name took on after that dire moment in 1972, the shorthand it became for survivors, historians, and avengers.

The Phantom of the Opera (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Dec.04] :. You might read this as a not-so-subtle indictment of the bourgie masses who consume popular culture: their taste sucks.

Calendar Girls (2003)

by Lesley Smith

[18.Dec.03] :. A roll call of Britain's prime acting talent renders this movie watchable but cannot lift it beyond the forgettable.

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Nov.03] :. 'She's really pretty handy with knives and guns, this girl.'"

Veronica Guerin (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Oct.03] :. Such moments illustrate Veronica's earnest incentive while undermining her hard work with crazily implausible coincidences.

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Jul.03] :. The focus on her irate face reveals Lara's resolve, fury, and urgency. She's not playing.