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Last Chance Harvey

by Stephen Snart

[4.May.09] :. Seemingly designed for in-flight viewing, this film is the equivalent of a competently written paperback, or a leftover helping of Ma’s comfort food.

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Last Chance Harvey

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Jan.09] :. Last Chance Harvey is a movie about starting over.

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Emma Thompson, starring in a new romantic comedy, is truly down to earth

by Robert W. Butler [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[15.Jan.09] :. Emma Thompson was snorting with laughter. At something I said. Very satisfying. It happened at the beginning of a phone interview with the Oscar-winning actress (“Howards End”) and...

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TV DVD Review

Alfresco

by Emma Simmonds

[8.Oct.08] :. The inconsistent early '80s British comedy sketch show, while not quite an embarrassment to all concerned, is of interest only to fans of the actors or '80s comedy completists.

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Brideshead Revisited

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Jul.08] :. The new Brideshead Revisited doesn't grapple much with Charles' disconcerting mix of nostalgia and odium regarding British aristocracy.

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The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview Feature

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: July 2008

by Bill Gibron

[30.Apr.08] :. And it just doesn't stop. If part two in this three-ring play was packed with well hyped product, July just keeps the receipt treats coming.

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Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

by Jack Patrick Rodgers

[8.Mar.07] :. Stranger than Fiction isn’t sure if it wants to be a comedy that relies on stereotypes in order to accentuate the humor, or a drama with the absurdities played as deadpan as possible.

 

Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Nov.06] :. Maybe Professor Hilbert knows exactly how right he is, given the film's relentless archness: it knows that you know that it knows it's meta.

 

Emma Thompson lightens up in ‘Stranger Than Fiction’

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press]

[8.Nov.06] :. TORONTO—Though Emma Thompson had flown to Canada only the night before meeting the press at September’s Toronto International Film Festival, she looks as if she walked off a Paris runway...

 

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.

 

Angels in America

by Todd R. Ramlow

[22.Dec.03] :. By far the most resonant aspect of Angels in America today is its exposure of simplistic struggles over definitions of 'good' and 'evil'.

 

Love Actually (2003)

by Mary Colgan

[13.Nov.03] :. On occasion, the film allows a jaded sensibility to worm its way into this otherwise picturesque world.

 

Treasure Planet (2002)

by John G. Nettles

[5.Dec.02] :. A space opera in touch with its feminine side.

 

Wit

by Lesley Smith

In the end, 'Wit' may be remarkable not for what it is but merely for the fact of its existence -- a serious, quasi-intellectual drama filmed by two Oscar-winners miraculously commissioned by and shown on TV.

 

Maybe Baby (2000)

by Nikki Tranter

Maybe Baby's sight gags are sometimes hilarious and the story is often engrossing. But the execution falls flat.