Articles tagged "freddie highmore"

Film Review

The Spiderwick Chronicles

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Feb.08] :. No matter how admirable the girl with expertise in fencing or spunky the twins played by Freddy Highmore, this movie is about bad dads.

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Super Duper Bad: The Worst Films of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.08] :. From Good Luck Chuck to Julie Taymor's ill-advised Beatlesque '60s tribute Across the Universe, PopMatters presents the dreck of 2007.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

 

Film Review

August Rush

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Nov.07] :. Evan has the great good luck of being a veritable Magical Negro magnet.

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Film Review

A Good Year (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Nov.06] :. As lovely as she may be, Fanny has her work cut out for her in A Good Year.

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Film DVD Review

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Two-Disc Deluxe Edition (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Nov.05] :. Tim Burton's movie is mostly perky, slightly edgy, and dully episodic.

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Jul.05] :. This being a Tim Burton film, the celebration of childish pleasures is not simply joyous, but tweaked.

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Finding Neverland (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Mar.05] :. 'Play' is a means to define childhood, to prolong mythic innocence, to grant nobility.

 

Finding Neverland (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Nov.04] :. As James Barrie, the Scottish-born playwright most famous for imagining Peter Pan, Johnny Depp appears the consummately charismatic child-man.