Articles tagged "jamie foxx"

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The Kingdom

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Sep.07] :. Boasting charismatic stars and a topical focus on terrorism, the film adds one more cagey detail -- a hint of moral challenge to its own thrills-and-chills violence.

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agoDreamgirls (2006)

by Iquo B. Essien

[10.May.07] :. An undeniably fun ride, albeit with too much restraint here, too over-the-top there.

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Stealth (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Jul.05] :. Kara's a lovely, leggy, perfectly made-up figure whose primary purpose is to provide moral framing for the boys' brilliant strikes and calculations.

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Ray (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Oct.04] :. Repeatedly, Ray collapses lore and desire into metaphorical, emotional, and narrative economy, occasioned by a groundbreaking song.

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Breakin’ All the Rules: Special Edition (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Oct.04] :. All rules of attraction and self-definition are just off when it comes to the utterly beautiful and notoriously nice Chestnut.

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Collateral (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Aug.04] :. Michael Mann's new film shows what anyone who's paid attention to Jamie Foxx has known for some time: he is excellent.

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Ali: The Director’s Cut (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Jun.04] :. The bravest thing Ali does is to gesture toward, wonder at, and celebrate Muhammad Ali, and then let go of him.

 

Breakin’ All the Rules (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.May.04] :. As lovers who lie to one another as a kind of mating ritual, Gabrielle Union and Jamie Foxx do about as well as possible.

 

Any Given Sunday (1999)

by Tobias Peterson

Whatever you think about Oliver Stone as a director, you can't deny his firm grasp on this country's interests. From Vietnam to JFK to serial killers, Stone's pictures have always depicted major subjects of national fascination. With his latest release, Any Given Sunday, Stone looks to go his previous films one better by focusing on the most popular sport in America.

 

Any Given Sunday (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Oliver Stone's movies usually seem more complicated than they are. Partly this comes from his evolving style, from the curiously romantic realism of Platoon, to the assaultive ding-battiness of Natural Born Killers, to the debased lunacy of U-Turn. But mostly it comes from his obsession with a single theme: brutality. Or more precisely, how brutality becomes morality.

 

Ali (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Ali embodies a kind of car-wreck charisma -- arrogant and self-conscious, beautiful and fierce, even on twenty-year-old tape, he can take your breath away. This ability to mesmerize makes Ali who he is, or more accurately, who everyone wants him to be. He's a cipher and a screen onto which viewers might project themselves.

 

Bait (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The film's most effective balancing act comes in the form of Foxx's terrific performance: throughout, he's quirky, subtle, and thankfully able to keep up with the movie's lurching tone-and-genre shifts, from comedy to action to almost-arty to melodrama.

 
 
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