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The Ice Storm

by Matt Mazur

[4.Apr.08] :. The general fuzzed-out sense of malaise that Lee is able to tap into while exploring the Nixon-era sexual revolution (and repression and adventure), creates a point of view that both ruthlessly observes and empathizes with these alien suburbanites.

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PopMatters Picks: The 50 DVDs Every Film Fan Should Own Feature

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.

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Kids’ DVDs: June 2007

by Roger Holland

[6.Jun.07] :. Given that babies and young children love nothing more than repetition, repetition, and... um.... repetition, I can't understand why even the pointiest of heads would think children between the ages of six months and three years could possible need 23 different Baby Einstein DVDs.

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Bobby (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Apr.07] :. As reporter Warren Wilson remembers, "That would have been less of an impact on me, had I been shot [as he nearly was], than Kennedy being killed, stopped, in a moment in America's history, when we needed him and his advocacy more than ever before."

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Happy Feet (2006)

by Mike Ward

[21.Nov.06] :. The penguins learn to refine their engrained vocal skills not in the interest of spiritual uplift or any such, but, basically, to get laid.

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Bobby (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Nov.06] :. With Kennedy serving as a symbol for what might have been, Bobby illustrates the problems he identifies.

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Sin City (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Aug.05] :. Like the guys, the girls are undone by their reliance on conventional male power signs.

 

Sin City (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Apr.05] :. Distraught, ornery, self-critical, these heroes are certainly more "anti" types than straight-ahead.

 

Deep Impact: Special Collector’s Edition (1998)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Oct.04] :. Mimi Leder's Deep Impact is both less and more than a science fiction-styled disaster melodrama.

 

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Mar.04] :. At once abstract and heartfelt, sincere and weirdly charming, the film unhinges conventions of linear narrative along with romantic comedy.

 

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Dec.03] :. No in-betweeners in this reductive view of the world: characters and choices are good or evil.

 

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Dec.02] :. It's useful to remember that, offscreen, both good and bad tend to be tricksy.

 

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[18.Dec.01] :. What is potentially most urgent about 'The Fellowship of the Ring' is how it reflects the tenor of our time.

 

Black and White (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

'I'm a kid in America, I can do whatever I want.' Jutting her chin at the camera, New York City high schooler Charlie (Bijou Phillips) mouths off to her stuffy-suit dad, who's been pestering her about where she goes after school.