Articles tagged "jake gyllenhaal"

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Rendition

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Oct.07] :. Rendition is worried about torture. Specifically, it's worried about Americans torturing other people while saying they're not.

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Brokeback Mountain (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Apr.06] :. While the movie's poetry is often stunning, the DVD docs are decidedly and disappointingly banal.

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Proof (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Feb.06] :. As John Madden says, the film's central issue is 'validation', in emotional and familial, as well as mathematical and metaphorical, frameworks.

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Brokeback Mountain (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Dec.05] :. It's Alma's silence that makes Brokeback Mountain feel so serious. Her pain is neither exquisite nor elegiac. It is only hard.

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Jarhead (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Nov.05] :. Jarhead doesn't lose sight of this basic truth of war. More effective weapons only deepen its despair.

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Proof (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Sep.05] :. And yet, for all the potential nuance in this knotting, the film leaves the sisters caught up in a familiar conflict.

Donnie Darko: Director’s Cut (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Feb.05] :. The problem embodied by Donnie is at once mundane and painfully special, the dilemma of fate vs. free will, laced though with unanswered questions of identity and responsibility.

The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Oct.04] :. Even as it lays down a scary geopolitical scenario and a few partisan gauntlets, The Day After Tomorrow aims to please.

Day After Tomorrow (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.May.04] :. As the 'eye of the storm' speeds across the screen, instantly freezing everything in its path, Jack looks up to see a flag, turned spastically solid in a second. Here it is, the money shot: the emblematic United States, stuck in time, blind to consequences, fixated on its own reckless self-love.

Moonlight Mile (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Oct.02] :. Fits a little too neatly with the recent popularity of media considering grief and death rituals.

The Good Girl (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Aug.02] :. Into Justine's black hole of a routine walks Holden glowering, self-consciously poetic, urgent.

Lovely & Amazing (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Jul.02] :. Even as the girls in Holofcener's world have their own problems, they provide acutely recognizable reflections.

Donnie Darko (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

PULL.

Bubble Boy (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

PULL.