Articles tagged "j.k. simmons"

TV Review

The Closer

by Leigh H. Edwards

[21.Jul.08] :. In The Closer, Kyra Sedgwick's Brenda Johnson often walks a fine line between complex and irritating.

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The Closer: The Complete Third Season

by Jennifer Kelly

[16.Jul.08] :. Johnson is a new breed of television heroine: smart, driven, successful and about three-eighths of an inch away from unlikeable.

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Juno

by Jarrett Berman

[14.Apr.08] :. Teens have their precious catchphrases and secret languages, but they're nervous, fumbling creatures. They don’t come equipped with Chaucer-like witticisms, or razor-sharp retorts.

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Film Review

Juno

by Daynah Burnett

[5.Dec.07] :. A movie about a 16-year-old girl's unplanned pregnancy, Juno manages to avoid any significant emotional depths, despite its plainly complex subject.

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The Closer - The Complete Second Season

by Leigh H. Edwards

[19.Jun.07] :. Deputy Police Chief Brenda Lee Johnson cracks cases because she knows what makes cracked people tick.

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TV Review

The Closer

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Jun.07] :. At the office this season, Brenda faces ongoing budget issues that threaten to break up the team she spent two TNT seasons convincing they were a team.

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oFirst Snow (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Apr.07] :. Any movie that finds a place for the remarkable Jackie Burroughs begins with bonus points.

Off the Map (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Mar.05] :. The fact that they're sharing such tragedies while Richard Nixon is resigning suggests a certain harmony of the universe.

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Dec.04] :. Uncomfortable with his abilities (they have come on him like a virus), Peter repeatedly returns to his central question: Who am I?"

The Ladykillers (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Sep.04] :. Pious, earnest, and broadly drawn, Marva is the first black character in a Coen brothers movie to occupy center stage.

Hidalgo (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Aug.04] :. 'Being out in the middle of the Arabian desert,' says Mortensen, 'you could easily imagine what it must have been like.'"

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Jul.04] :. Though Spider-Man plainly enjoys saving kids from danger and even instructing them ('Hey you guys! No playing in the street'), he also longs for a more regular, selfish life.

The Ladykillers (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Mar.04] :. Pious, earnest, and broadly drawn, Marva is the first black character in a Coen brothers movie to occupy center stage. For a minute, anyway.

Hidalgo (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Mar.04] :. Hidalgo is the story of this horse and his man.

Spider-Man (2002)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[2.May.02] :. Spider-Man doesn't get caught up in its own snazzy special effects.

Autumn in New York (2000)

by Anne Daugherty

While watching Autumn in New York, I was struck by its parallel to the Clinton-Lewinsky business. There are superficial similarities, especially in the lead players — a powerful 50-ish...