Articles tagged "david thewlis"

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Holo-Cost

by Bill Gibron

[9.Dec.08] :. All across the web this past week, it’s been the subject of much metaphysical ink. As awards season slowly winds down, Hollywood is dragging out the proverbial heavy hitters, and oddly enough,...

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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

by Bill Gibron

[21.Nov.08] :. As a cinematic foundation, the Holocaust has just about run its course. Certainly there will be other examples of stellar filmmaking - i.e. Schindler’s List - that utilize the monstrous...

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Film Review

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Nov.08] :. Bruno's education and his mother's regret are rendered with big music and zoomy close-ups, in the end, a story of the Holocaust that is less enlightening than melodramatic.

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Column: The Screener

Irrational Exuberance

by Chris Barsanti

[10.Oct.08] :. Watching Mike Leigh’s sublimely fresh Happy-Go-Lucky, you could be forgiven for wondering what the rest of humanity is so depressed about, anyway.

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Column: Suffragette City

Katrin Cartlidge: The Working Actress

by Matt Mazur

[29.Aug.08] :. Whether it was through silence, grotesquerie, fury or intelligence (or, at times, lack of intelligence), Cartlidge was not afraid to upturn the dark corners of the women she portrayed.

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The Late Hector Kipling by David Thewlis

by Peter Swanson

[5.Feb.08] :. I was so annoyed with Hector’s inability to make a single mature decision that I was glad when he became a monster and the blood started splattering.

The Omen (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Jun.06] :. By the time poor Kate visits a shrink who embodies all the institutional and moral restrictions she faces daily, you're wanting everyone to jump off rooftops, preferably with nooses.

Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[31.Mar.06] :. As in the first film, this premise -- that Catherine's plot is a series of lies -- is mildly interesting.

Naked (1993)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Nov.05] :. A hard movie, in the sense that it's difficult and also harsh, Naked is unsettling, often extremely funny and sometimes bizarrely brilliant.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Jun.04] :. Director Alfonso Cuarón brings to the franchise a newly inventive sensibility, and, most important, an appreciation for smart cuts and brevity, especially the requisite Quidditch scene, mercifully short, dark, and stormy.

Gangster No. 1 (2000)

by Kirsten Markson

[12.Jul.02] :. Gangster No. 1's style and plot are stale.