Articles tagged "daniel craig"

TV DVD Review

Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

by Amaya Rivera

[23.Jul.08] :. An acid-tongued humor, playing towards a number of stuffy British stereotypes.

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The Golden Compass

by Lara Killian

[13.May.08] :. Scruffy and unpolished in the open casting call, Dakota Blue Richards shines in her role as the gutsy heroine.

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The Golden Compass

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Dec.07] :. Too bland and disjointed to match up with either set up expectations, The Golden Compass is too familiar to be beguiling, too interested in appeasing masses and selling the Corgi toy line.

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The Invasion

by Bill Gibron

[19.Aug.07] :. With 2007’s oft-delayed The Invasion, there is simply no more symbolic juice left.

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Film Review

The Invasion (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Aug.07] :. Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel (who made the impressive Downfall), the film goes from sharp paranoid thriller to noisy action flick.

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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.

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Layer Cake (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Oct.05] :. Daniel Craig ensures that you see XXXX's mind wheels turning as he confronts each new impasse.

Layer Cake (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.May.05] :. The hero of Layer Cake has no name. This matters less than you might think.

Enduring Love (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Nov.04] :. Samantha Morton's face seems a perfect object for gazing on.

The Mother (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Jun.04] :. May's new sense of self and awakened sexuality are startling, not least of all to her.

Road to Perdition (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Jul.02] :. The perfectly grim surface evokes eons of pain, as well as a highly stylized contemporary sensibility, not so much cynical as skeptical and self-aware.

I Dreamed of Africa (2000)

by F. L. Carr

Don’t Europeans ever get tired of swooping down to Africa to exploit its peoples and natural resources? Apparently not. I Dreamed of Africa is based on the true story of Kuki Gallman...

Tomb Raider (2001)

by Mike Ward

All this symbolism would be quite impressive, actually, if 'Tomb Raider' ever gave the slightest impression it knew where it was going with it or was eventually planning to use these symbols to say something coherent.

Tomb Raider (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

This spectacular image of androgynous, self-stimulating sexual excess speaks directly to the wonder and threat of Lara Croft, so adept at masculine and feminine wiles, and every wile in between.