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Film Review

Pineapple Express

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Aug.08] :. Pineapple Express is mostly what you expect: bonding mechanics that are unsurprising and feebly unrebellious.

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In the Valley of Elah

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Sep.07] :. Paul Haggis' film posits Hank as an old-school man of honor, both punished and revered for his traditional "values."

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Spider-Man 3 (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.May.07] :. The point of Spider-Man 3, underscored by all the posters, trailers, and buzz, is black Spidey.

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Spider-Man returns for a bigger-than-ever third film

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[1.May.07] :. The problem with the present? All anyone wants to talk about is the future. At least that’s the case with director Sam Raimi and the cast of Spider-Man 3, which opens nationwide...

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Spider-Man 2.1 - Unrated, Extended Cut (2004)

by Bill Gibron

[27.Apr.07] :. While Spider-Man 2.1 may add a few more dollars to the company coffers, it's definitely not doing the Spider Man series – or the digital domain – any real favors.

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The Great Raid: The Director’s Cut (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Jan.06] :. Archive shots of broken, diseased, and starved bodies provide a devastating illustration of the history that drives the film's fictions.

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Annapolis (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Jan.06] :. Annapolis is straight-up male melodrama.

Tristan & Isolde (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Jan.06] :. Long-haired, nubile, and eager to please, Tristan seeks a consuming passion, but is fated to fall limp in the arms of a girl who can't make up her mind.

The Great Raid (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Aug.05] :. The relationship between heroism and villainy remains reductive, subjective, and devastatingly predictable.

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?"

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.

Spider-Man: Deluxe Edition (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Jun.04] :. On screen, Spider-Man necessarily becomes more literal, less imaginative.

The Company (2003)

by Michael Healey

[22.Jan.04] :. Evocations of life's uncertainty -- an Altman specialty -- simultaneously expose the obstacles the ballet company must overcome in order to mount a production.

City by the Sea (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Sep.02] :. All these horrors in one family might easily lead to questions concerning genetics and proclivity, codes of masculinity and violence.

Spider-Man (2002)

by Todd R. Ramlow

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

Deuces Wild (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.May.02] :. A heavy-handed glob of a movie.

PopMatters - Television - Reviews - Freaks and Geeks

by Fred Kovey

It’s the year 2000 and eighties nostalgia is in full swing. Superstar drug casualty Drew Barrymore has already done the eighties, Hollywood-style, in 1998’s Adam Sandler vehicle, The...

Annapolis (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Toward the end of 'achieving a balance' in the film, Justin Lin says, 'It was just basically a massage all the way through, from the writing to the production to the editing.'"