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

Part 5: Toy Story 2 to Titus (November - December 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[27.Mar.09] :. On this final day of PopMatters' 1999 overview, awards season hype gives way to pure acting prowess and definitive directorial flair.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

Film Review

An American Affair

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Feb.09] :. Before An American Affair is over, you can be sure that Adam will learn a very familiar life lesson.

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TV Review

Life on Mars: Series Premiere

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Oct.08] :. Harvey Keitel makes a great entrance in Life on Mars. You expect as much, of course, because he's Harvey Keitel. But it is truly great.

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Film DVD Review

3:10 to Yuma

by Jarrett Berman

[4.Feb.08] :. As a genre piece, Mangold’s remake satisfies the requisite clichés (sweeping desert vistas, corseted women, ample gunplay), but not much else.

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Film DVD Review

The Ten

by Stuart Henderson

[14.Jan.08] :. A high-speed collision between Krzysztof Kieślowski's Dekalog and Woody Allen’s Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex.

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

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Male

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Jan.08] :. From the tender and eerie precision of Sam Riley's depiction of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis in Control to yet another superlative performance by Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, PopMatters highlights the best male actors of 2007.

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

 

The talents behind ‘3:10 to Yuma’ hope the Western will ride again

by Dixie Reid [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[7.Sep.07] :. SAN FRANCISCO—Meanwhile, back at the hotel ... After a photo shoot staged at Marin County, Calif., horse stables, James Mangold and Peter Fonda are back at the hotel. Like gunfighters at high...

 

3:10 to Yuma

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Sep.07] :. All the men in this movie think they're doing the right thing, no matter how unhinged their actions may look.

 

The Ten

by Jesse Hassenger

[7.Aug.07] :. Despite the sight gags, recurring characters, amusing references, and genuine chuckles it elicits, The Ten is more exercise than tour de force.

 

The Notorious Bettie Page (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Apr.06] :. Mary Harron's smart new movie is less about Bettie Page than the many forces that made her 'notorious,' the moral hypocrisies and sexual repressions that shaped the '50s and persist today.

 

The Shape of Things (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.May.03] :. This version of Neil LaBute's ongoing project is crisp and aggressive, occasionally alienating or annoying, that is, effectively unlike other movies.

 

Sweet and Lowdown (1999)

by Josh Jones

[3.Dec.99] :. Even though Sean Penn brings a phenomenally hysterical freshness to Emmett Ray (and he played a similarly mustachioed maniac in Hurly Burly, without the artistic genius), Sweet and Lowdown is familiar ground for Woody Allen, replete with his usual themes.