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

The New Classics - The 30 Best Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[16.Jan.09] :. Unlike previous years, where classics came crawling out of the celluloid woodwork with regular reckless abandon, 2008 was more calm… and considered. That's not to say that choosing 30 top titles was hard. The difficulty in placing them in some manner of rank order suggests the actual depth of quality involved.

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

 

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

Iconic - The Top 20 Male Performances of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[14.Jan.09] :. Like the gladiators of old, 2008 resembles a battle of formidable acting gods, especially when looking over the 20 choices presented below. Indeed, if anything, choosing a winner requires more of a leap of faith than any amount of critical skill - they all were that good.

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

 

Short Ends and Leader

Burn After Reading (2008)

by Bill Gibron

[21.Dec.08] :. The Coen Brothers remains the most predicable unpredictable artists in Hollywood. You can be guaranteed that the minute you think you have them pegged - post-modern nostalgists, retro Hollywood...

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Being John Malkovich brings many movie roles

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[18.Sep.08] :. TORONTO - John Malkovich is, well, being John Malkovich, although no portals affording entry to his mind seem to be in operation here at the Four Seasons Hotel. The actor, who starred as himself, of...

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Film Review

Burn After Reading

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Sep.08] :. Ozzie (John Malkovich) embodies the problem of the CIA, of the "intelligence community," which is that it reacts to data, then fashions a story about it to comport with the reaction.

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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008

by Bill Gibron

[9.Sep.08] :. From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview

 

The Sentinel (2006)

by Jake Meaney

[1.Sep.06] :. A woefully timid, allegedly paranoid, political thriller short on thrills, shorter on paranoia, and shortest on politics.

 

The Sentinel (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Sep.06] :. The Sentinel thus sets up a conflict between two exceptionally earnest masculine icons -- Kiefer Sutherland and Michael DOuglas -- all furrowed brows and low-talking intensity.

 

The Sentinel (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Apr.06] :. I suppose if you're going to cast the deliriously overexposed Eva Longoria -- and give her a weapon, to boot -- you might as well make fun of the fact that you've done so.

 

Bingo (1991)

by Mike Ward

[25.Aug.03] :. Bingo's handful of good scenes usually have less to do with the dog than with humans who struggle with their inability to manipulate tools.