Articles tagged "colin firth"

Film Review

Mamma Mia!

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Jul.08] :. Meryl Streep scampers and writhes with something like abandon in her tomboyish overalls, her glowing tan and perfectly arranged "wild" blond hair indicating Donna's stanch independence.

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When Did You Last See Your Father?

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Jun.08] :. Even as it explores familiar deceits and self-delusions, When Did You Last See Your Father? feels, in the end, as if it's entangled in them.

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Then She Found Me

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.May.08] :. As cute and inoffensive and eventually uplifting as Then She Found Me may be, it is also a formulaic exercise.

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Fast chat with ‘Then She Found Me’ star Colin Firth

by Gene Seymour [Newsday (MCT)]

[1.May.08] :. Thirteen years have passed since Colin Firth became, as Jane Austen might put it, “universally acknowledged” as the definitive Mr. Darcy in the lionized BBC TV miniseries of...

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Film Review

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.

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DVD Film Review

Where the Truth Lies: Unrated Theatrical Version (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Mar.06] :. As the score swells, the camera reveals a body, a girl seemingly drowned, pale, grotesque, and grim. This, the title hints, is Where the Truth Lies. Except it isn't.

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Where the Truth Lies (2005)

by Michael Buening

[14.Oct.05] :. In a mystery titled Where the Truth Lies, solving the case is not going to be easy.

 

Bridget Jones’s Diary: Collector’s Edition (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Nov.04] :. Speaking of her star, Renée Zellweger, Maguire is appropriately besotted: 'You can see what she brought to Bridget. She's got this fantastic warmth and this permanent confusion on her face.'"

 

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Nov.04] :. This time the bloom is quite off.

 

Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)

by Michael Healey

[8.Jan.04] :. Nothing drains the life from great art like a well-intentioned attempt to explain away its mysteries.

 

Love Actually (2003)

by Mary Colgan

[13.Nov.03] :. On occasion, the film allows a jaded sensibility to worm its way into this otherwise picturesque world.

 

What a Girl Wants (2003)

by Robert Rue

[11.Apr.03] :. Daphne is cooler, thinner, and just plain hotter than her secretly envious rivals.

 

Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001)

by Renee Scolaro Rathke

We stop short of congratulating Bridget Jones with a hearty 'you've come a long way, baby.' After all, 'Bridget Jones's Diary', like 'Pride and Prejudice', is preoccupied with marriage.

 

Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

In her diary, Bridget Jones is a star.

 
 
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