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

Part 3: The Sixth Sense to Fight Club (August - October 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[25.Mar.09] :. Films that have left a lasting impression on their creators (M. Night Shyamalan, Sam Mendes, David Fincher) make up the majority of Part Three of our Films of 1999 overview.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

Film Feature

Superheroes Versus Comics

by shathley Q

[27.Jan.09] :. There can be no doubt that the summer of 2008 stands as a high-water mark for superheroes. But in the wake of a superhero renaissance and the growing cultural legitimacy of the genre, the question must be posed: Has the superhero genre evolved beyond the comics medium?

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Short Ends and Leader

‘Pride and Glory’ is Solid but Predictable

by Bill Gibron

[24.Oct.08] :. By now, we understand the corruption festering under the thin blue line. Call it The Departed Syndrome, or the Badge-Carrying Whistleblower’s Waltz but movies portraying policeman as...

Short Ends and Leader

Film Review

Pride and Glory

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Oct.08] :. By the time Eladio (Rick Gonzalez) makes his single-scene appearance in Pride and Glory, the fate of his adversary has been exhaustively telegraphed.

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Edward Norton says he’s proud of ‘Pride and Glory’

by John Anderson [Newsday (MCT)]

[23.Oct.08] :. TORONTO - Considered one of the finest actors of his generation, Edward Norton has played psychopaths (“Primal Fear”), neo-Nazis (“American History X”), figments of the...

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Film DVD Review

The Incredible Hulk

by Bill Gibron

[21.Oct.08] :. One of the most “incredible” things about this so-called reinvention of the Hulk is how close it is to Ang Lee’s vision.

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The Incredible Hulk (2008)

by Bill Gibron

[18.Oct.08] :. The verdict is in and the decision is, to say the least, confusing. When Ang Lee’s interpretation of the classic green-skinned Marvel character arrived in 2003, it was considered a massive...

You Do Not Talk About Fight Club by Read Mercer Schuchardt (ed.)

by Derek Beres

[11.Sep.08] :. Using Sartre and superstring theory as a foundation, Vacker adds a voice to the continuation of Palahniuk’s theme, which deals, essentially, with the will to live -- and more importantly, how to live.

Talk, Talk, Talk: October 2008

by Bill Gibron

[10.Sep.08] :. What studio suit thought this was a good idea? With four months to schedule your high priced efforts, you instead unload almost 30 overpriced pictures on an unsuspecting movie audience.

The Incredible Hulk

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Jun.08] :. In The Incredible Hulk, Betty handles her role as The Girl in unusual and frankly charming ways: she's easily the film's most impressive effect.

The Acceptable ‘Hulk’

by Bill Gibron

[12.Jun.08] :. When Marvel made the decision to take over the “creative direction” of the big screen adaptations of their characters, geek nation remained skeptical. After all, just because the company...

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: June 2008

by Bill Gibron

[29.Apr.08] :. If May almost tent-poled itself out of existence, June will be even worse. After all, are audiences really ready for 13 major release in less than two months -- with more to come?

Part 5: The Return of the Auteur

by PopMatters Staff

[22.Jun.07] :. That noise you heard near the start of the new millennium was the creative din of a brash new breed of filmmakers tearing down the traditions of mainstream moviemaking. Their motion picture mission statements -- including the ones featured on this list -- remain the rulebook for new generations of anxious film artists.

The Illusionist (2006)

by Jarrett Berman

[29.Jan.07] :. This charming film occupies a place somewhere between Merchant Ivory and M. Night Shyamalan.

The Painted Veil (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Jan.07] :. The Painted Veil uses its narrative limits to make its political case, that privilege breeds ignorance.

Edward Norton, unveiled: Actor struggled to film Maugham story

by Bruce Newman [San Jose Mercury News]

[29.Dec.06] :. SAN FRANCISCO - Not long after Walter Fane marries his gloriously depthless wife Kitty in “The Painted Veil,” the couple arrives in Shanghai, where Kitty proceeds to unravel their...

The Illusionist (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Aug.06] :. If The Illusionist's allegory isn't subtle, it is timely: those who seem authorities are illusionists, administering by entertainments.

Down in the Valley (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.May.06] :. Look out: here comes another revisionist Western.

The Italian Job (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Aug.03] :. As soon as John utters the words 'last job' to his darling girl, his fate (like the film's) is sealed.

The Italian Job (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.May.03] :. As soon as John utters the words 'last job' to his darling girl, his fate (like the film's) is sealed.

The 25th Hour (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Dec.02] :. The 25th Hour opens with huge, hard-hitting shots of the March 2002 tribute to the Twin Towers, the towers of light.

Frida (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[31.Oct.02] :. Julie Taymor's Frida pulses with color.

Red Dragon (2002)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[3.Oct.02] :. What is most politically problematic about Red Dragon is how it furthers the relationship between physical disability and psychopathology.

Death to Smoochy (2002)

by Renie Scolaro Mora

[4.Apr.02] :. PULL.

Fight Club (1999)

by Jonathan Beller and Rhonda Baughman

[14.Oct.99] :. Does capitalism have you by the balls? If you're feeling a little limp lately, a little flaccid, emasculated, or impotent, then David Fincher's Fight Club may just have your number. This film kicks butt, and in doing so it also manages to suggest that your need for it and for other butt-kicking films is a late capitalist symptom of contemporary psychosis.

The Score (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

...it's boy-movie-making 101, a very traditional plot point indeed.

Keeping the Faith (2000)

by Josh Jones

The representative New York of Keeping the Faith lies somewhere in between the hyperreal absurdity of NYPD Blue and the boutique-chic, antiseptic Manhattan of Friends.

Keeping the Faith (2000)

by Ben Varkentine

The directorial debut of actor Edward Norton, Keeping the Faith wastes his considerable talents and those of his co-stars on a script that cannot hold many surprises for anyone who has been to the movies in the last quarter-century.