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Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 2: The Virgin Suicides to The Blair Witch Project (May - August 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[24.Mar.09] :. In Part Two of our look at the most memorable films of 1999, we experience music, foul-mouthed mayhem, and a late, great auteur's final cinematic statement.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

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American Experience: The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

by Ian Chant

[6.Mar.09] :. Oppenheimer’s inability to influence people would come to haunt him, and shape the nuclear policy of the world in ways that still reverberate through today’s headlines.

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The Uninvited

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Jan.09] :. The sex-with-daddy business serves as an underpinning to Anna's fundamental trauma.

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My Blueberry Nights (2007)

by Bill Gibron

[29.Jun.08] :. True fans of cinema generally hate dubbed foreign films. Not only do they miss the beauty of the native language, but every rerecording job seems to feature Western actors misinterpreting the...

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Norah Jones tries her hand at acting in ‘My Blueberry Nights’

by Rafer Guzmán [Newsday (MCT)]

[10.Apr.08] :. It was the kind of offer that most Hollywood A-listers would jump at: a chance to work with Wong Kar-Wai, the critically acclaimed Hong Kong director of “In the Mood for Love” and...

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My Blueberry Nights

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Apr.08] :. In Blueberry Nights, attractions are premised on separate losses, cultivations of similar heartaches, and delights in desserts.

The Spiderwick Chronicles

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Feb.08] :. No matter how admirable the girl with expertise in fencing or spunky the twins played by Freddy Highmore, this movie is about bad dads.

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.

The Bourne Ultimatum

by Boyd Williamson

[7.Jan.08] :. The Bourne Ultimatum is one of the most enjoyable documents of cultural paranoia and political alienation you’ll see this year.

tHarrisons Flowers

by Boyd Williamson

[7.Aug.07] :. If there were an award given to actors for retaining their dignity in undignified movies, Andie MacDowell would surely win for her performance in Harrison’s Flowers.

Lights, camera, ACTION: Matt Damon’s back as Bourne

by Barry Koltnow [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[5.Aug.07] :. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Lunch at the legendary Polo Lounge in Beverly Hills has to end precisely at 1 p.m. because Matt Damon has a date. His 13-month-old daughter Isabella is asleep in an upstairs...

The Bourne Ultimatum

by Bill Gibron

[4.Aug.07] :. The Bourne Ultimatum lives and dies by its car chases and fisticuffs, and it has to be said that some of the best examples in the genre exist in this electrifying film.

Monkey Business (Part 4: August)

by Bill Gibron

[4.May.07] :. In past years, Hollywood purposely counter programmed these renowned Cineplex dog days, trying to offset the perception that cinematic scraps were all the studios had to offer. From the look of this lame list, it's apparently back to the filmic fridge for some patently warmed over offerings.

Ryan’s reel life: In his quietness, Gosling makes noise

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[26.Apr.07] :. Ryan Gosling has his first Oscar nomination under his belt (for “Half Nelson”), and a very hot thriller now in theaters. But there was a time, long before “Fracture,” before...

Fracture (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Apr.07] :. Part police procedural, part courtroom hijinks, and part cunning murder plot, Gregory Hoblit's new movie brings the usual canards.

Anthony Hopkins takes another villainous turn in ‘Fracture’

by Barry Koltnow [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[20.Apr.07] :. Hopkins: "When I tell people that I just learn my lines and that's all there is to it, my wife thinks that I'm putting down the craft of acting."

‘Fracture’: Cunning, Arrogant, Sinister

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[20.Apr.07] :. Ted is all wit, charm and ruthlessness. He is Hannibal Lecter without the menu, a creep we can love.

We Are Marshall (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Dec.06] :. The film manages a complex range of feelings with a series of hackneyed characters, plot turns, and montages. Lots of montages.

The Notorious Bettie Page (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Apr.06] :. Mary Harron's smart new movie is less about Bettie Page than the many forces that made her 'notorious,' the moral hypocrisies and sexual repressions that shaped the '50s and persist today.

Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Mar.06] :. Lamenting the loss of 'people who are uncompromising,' Clooney says, 'For us, this movie is a success if some kid in Austin, Texas sees it, who is studying journalism, and says, 'That's the guy I want to be like.' Then we win.'"

Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Oct.05] :. Shot in exquisite black and white, George Clooney's portrait of Edward R. Murrow is partly reverential, partly probing.

Blue Car (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Jun.03] :. High schooler Meg (Agnes Bruckner) has good reasons to be angry.

Harrison’s Flowers (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Mar.02] :. Goes at both war and romance from a decidedly oblique angle.

Limbo (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Polar bears. Carved totem poles. Eskimo dolls on souvenir shop shelves. Salmon getting their heads chopped off on an assembly line. These are the images that welcome you to 'America's Last Frontier,' or more precisely, to the Juneau, Alaska of John Sayles's latest film, Limbo. As this opening sequence suggests, the frontier is less wild than it once was; nowadays, it's exploited and compromised, shaped and reshaped daily by routine and thoughtless violence.