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Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 1: The Thin Red Line to Star Wars Episode I (January - May 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[23.Mar.09] :. The first part of PopMatters' look back at the films of 1999 is bookended by the long awaited return of two cinematic auteurs of wildly different styles, Terrence Malick and George Lucas.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

Column: The Screener

Identities in Flux

by Chris Barsanti

[24.Oct.08] :. Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York is performance art as civilization-annihilating Godzilla, whereas Eastwood's Changeling is a film that wins the stranger than fiction category, hands-down.

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Film DVD Review

Margot at the Wedding

by Jesse Hassenger

[6.Mar.08] :. Vivid impressions that make us look closely into Baumbach's fascinating, semi-miserable world.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.08] :. From Julian Schnabel's artsy The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to the legendary Coen Brothers splendid adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, PopMatters counts down the 30 best films of 2007.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

 

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Female

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Jan.08] :. From the most sweetly nuanced performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh's career to Cate Blanchett's revelatory portrayal of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, the women of 2007 were stellar.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

 

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Brothers and sisters bare their fangs on the big screen

by Chris Vognar [The Dallas Morning News (MCT)]

[5.Dec.07] :. It’s that time of year when intimate strangers come over to eat large birds and drain your liquor cabinet. You know these people from childhood, but your lives have diverged since then. They...

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A couple who collaborated on a ‘Wedding’

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[29.Nov.07] :. Noah Baumbach and Jennifer Jason Leigh have been married for a little over two years. And they were an item for a while before that. When Baumbach had “The Squid and the Whale”...

 
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Margot at the Wedding

by Matt Mazur

[27.Nov.07] :. The brisk 92-minute film explores the intensity of the women’s relationship, and how they are inherently tied to one another, whether they like it or not.

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Nicole Kidman probed deep for ‘Margot at the Wedding’

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[21.Nov.07] :. “I responded to the wicked comedy of it. And the way in which it sort of disturbs you, gets under your skin,” says Nicole Kidman, speaking about “Margot at the Wedding.”...

 

Margot at the Wedding

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Nov.07] :. Margot at the Wedding doesn’t resolve as much as it devolves into a series of arguments and dire revelations.

 

The Jacket (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Jul.05] :. Jack's experience fragments so radically and time turns so out of joint that you might think he's insane, as do his white-coated doctors.

 

The Machinist (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Jun.05] :. Trevor is an image disappearing, more about reduction and loss than self-knowledge and identification.

 

The Jacket (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Mar.05] :. It's an apt description of how war, waged by the Organization for the Organized, works on its warriors, victims and heroes both.

 

The Machinist (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Oct.04] :. The Machinist digs so deeply into its protagonist's mind that it's difficult to see a way out.

 

In the Cut (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Feb.04] :. 'It's all a series of mistaken identities, and how our thinking is like that, that we think we've seen something, but we actually haven't quite seen it all.'"

 

In the Cut (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Nov.03] :. Their affair proceeds as the steamy-seeming trailers suggest it will, in the interest of promoting Ryan's 'breakout' self-exposure.

 

The Big Picture (1989)

by Stephen Tropiano

[18.Oct.02] :. 'I don't know you, I don't know your work, but I think you're very talented.'"

 

Road to Perdition (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Jul.02] :. The perfectly grim surface evokes eons of pain, as well as a highly stylized contemporary sensibility, not so much cynical as skeptical and self-aware.

 

The Anniversary Party (2001)

by Kirsten Markson

...plays like a Hollywood version of 'The Real World', neatly edited and set in a striking but sterile home, but with few surprises.