Articles tagged "emily mortimer"

Film Review

The Pink Panther 2

by Renee Scolaro Mora

[6.Feb.09] :. Much of the “comedy” in The Pink Panther 2 is a rehashing of the jokes from the first film.

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Short Ends and Leader

‘Transsiberian’ Serves Up Old School Suspense

by Bill Gibron

[29.Aug.08] :. The little lie begins the deceit. Soon, the lack of truth clouds everything - from love to legality. Within days, loyalties which once seemed firm are tested, while newfound friendships provide the...

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Film Review

Transsiberian

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Jul.08] :. Transsiberian makes provocative connections between external and internal states, the ways that composition can reveal character.

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Film Review

Redbelt

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.May.08] :. In Redbelt, as ever in David Mamet's universe, the fight is the issue.

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The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview Feature

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: May 2008

by Bill Gibron

[28.Apr.08] :. In the first act of this four-part production, Tinsel Town decides to do some unbelievable front loading. Will there be room for independent offerings, or former HBO carnal comedy divas? Who knows? Without a doubt, it's an interesting way to start the season.

The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview

 

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In ‘Lars,’ Emily Mortimer preaches, and practices, acceptance

by Colin Covert [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[1.Nov.07] :. In “Lars and the Real Girl,” English actress Emily Mortimer (“Match Point,” “The Pink Panther”) plays the title character’s pregnant sister-in-law. When he...

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Ryan Gosling’s latest onscreen love is a real doll

by John Anderson [Newsday (MCT)]

[19.Oct.07] :. LOS ANGELES—Having reinvented the drug addict in “Half Nelson” and then parried with Anthony Hopkins in “Fracture,” Ryan Gosling arrived on the set of “Lars and...

 

Lars and the Real Girl

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Oct.07] :. This is the reductive conceit of Lars and the Real Girl, Lars' representative incongruity: he's so unlike everyone else that he becomes their cause and sign of sanity.

 

Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Mar.06] :. Howl's Moving Castle ticks with nervous energy and unsettledness. These jittery-edged images conjure exquisite rhythms as they approximate children's perspectives.

 

The Pink Panther

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Feb.06] :. Jean Reno gets the prize for infinite patience, as he maintains an admirable serenity amid the frenzy, perhaps especially when clobbering Clouseau.

 

Match Point (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Jan.06] :. Chris is fond of Enrico Caruso, whose voice 'expresses everything that's tragic about life,' one of these Allenish aphorisms that's probably true but just sounds trite.

 

Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Jun.05] :. Charming, peculiar, and occasionally ingenious, Howl's Moving Castle tilts between fantastical beauty and philosophical pondering.

 

Dear Frankie (2005)

by Lesley Smith

[4.Mar.05] :. Dear Frankie uses humor to acknowledge and, temporarily, transcend the fragility of human survival.

 

Bright Young Things (2004)

by Dan Devine

[15.Oct.04] :. Stephen Fry can't throw us any curveballs because he's got to stick close to Waugh, so he subjects us to formulaic depravity for three-quarters of the film, with minor variations.

 

Young Adam (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Sep.04] :. 'Joe's abandonment is like a political act and a political philosophy, he's a libertine and a libertarian,' says Tilda Swinton.

 

Young Adam (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Apr.04] :. Joe's trajectory through post-war Glasgow and Edinburgh takes on a sort of dread inevitability.

 

Formula 51 (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Oct.02] :. In Ronny Yu's mostly formulaic Formula 51, Samuel L. Jackson plays Elmo McElroy, a chemical whiz busted for smoking reefer.

 

Lovely & Amazing (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Jul.02] :. Even as the girls in Holofcener's world have their own problems, they provide acutely recognizable reflections.

 

Disney’s The Kid (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Bruce Willis has a good eye for little boy screen partners. Where last year’s The Sixth Sense granted the erstwhile action star precious quality screentime with the eerily talented Haley...