Articles tagged "halle berry"

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Things We Lost in the Fire

by Matt Mazur

[14.Mar.08] :. The film’s treatment of how one navigates the grief process, and the hidden trauma that follows inexplicable loss, is sensitive and thought-provoking.

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A few words with ‘Things We Lost in the Fire’ star Benicio Del Toro

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[22.Oct.07] :. Benicio Del Toro is a man of few words, both on and off the screen. Since making a major impression as the often indecipherable criminal Fred Fenster in 1995’s “The Usual Suspects,”...

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Things We Lost in the Fire

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Oct.07] :. The film intersperses the evolving liaison between Jerry and Audrey with their memories of Brian, suggesting he's their connective tissue even if he is lost.

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Perfect Stranger

by Marc Calderaro

[24.Sep.07] :. It’s not so much the endless heavy-handed clues, outmoded dialogue, or totally untrustworthy traits of the main characters that make the movie so unforgivable; it’s the purposeless ending that eschews all previous traits, dialogue, and clues.

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Perfect Stranger (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Apr.07] :. While it begins dully enough for an investigative thriller, Perfect Stranger quickly skids off into abject foolishness.

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Halle Berry’s Academy Award has made all the difference

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[11.Apr.07] :. "There was a time, before Oscar, when I could not have even got in the room with certain directors."

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X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.May.06] :. It's a superhero movie, so all these choices involve massive destruction -- buildings disintegrating, fireballs flying, bodies detonating.

 

Robots (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Mar.05] :. Valiant and righteous, the old-fashioned robots fight back against the slick, wealthy, huge machine.

 

Catwoman (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Jul.04] :. The women on either side of the film's imaginary moral divide are both gorgeous and potent, both capable of cruel violence, and both dedicated to their own desires.

 

X2: X-Men United (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Dec.03] :. At once all powerful and utterly powerless, this involuntary terrorist is the first mutant you meet in X2.

 

Gothika (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Nov.03] :. Chloe reminds her of the implacably smug logic of the sane, as they judge the insane: 'If you're here, it must mean that you belong.'"

 

X2: X-Men United (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.May.03] :. At once all powerful and utterly powerless, this involuntary terrorist is the first mutant you meet in X2.

 

Die Another Day (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Nov.02] :. Bond's issues have to do with self-identity.

 

X-Men (2000)

by Sabadino Parker

Beware the genesis of a new movie franchise, namely, X-Men, adapted from the best-selling comic book series of all time. Comics aficionados have been awaiting the film since the 1980s, when...

 

Swordfish (2001)

by Todd R. Ramlow

What is most distressing about 'Swordfish' is John Travolta. More and more, Travolta is becoming a caricature of himself as action anti/hero.

 

Swordfish (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Intrigue, deception, display, betrayal. All this is what it is, typical action flick sex-play, foreplay for the big explosion or something equally prosaic.

 

Monster’s Ball (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

'Monster's Ball' leans heavily on Southern Gothic torment and metaphor, as well as bizarre, if historically framed, circumstances.