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

Part 5: Toy Story 2 to Titus (November - December 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[27.Mar.09] :. On this final day of PopMatters' 1999 overview, awards season hype gives way to pure acting prowess and definitive directorial flair.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

Film Review

Under the Sea 3D

by Renee Scolaro Mora

[13.Feb.09] :. Under the Sea 3D offers a rare and gorgeous look at marine life from the heart of the Coral Triangle.

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Careers of five of Hollywood’s once-red-hot leading men may hang on their big holiday flicks

by John Anderson [Newsday (MCT)]

[19.Dec.08] :. None of the actors listed below will miss a meal in 2009. None will have to tighten his Versace belt, have his Gucci driving shoes resoled or be on the lookout for the repo man. However, in film,...

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Film Review

Yes Man

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Dec.08] :. Carl (Jim Carrey) meets the incredible Allison (Zooey Deschanel), a girl so completely charming and dazzlingly unpredictable that he is instantly convinced of the rightness of yes.

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‘Yes’ is Better Premise than Product

by Bill Gibron

[18.Dec.08] :. It’s a very interesting question indeed: outside of a single turn as the voice of a cartoon elephant, is Jim Carrey still a viable box office draw? Better still, in a world filled with...

Short Ends and Leader

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Jim Carrey, ever energetic, takes on some crazy stunts in new movie ‘Yes Man’

by Rick Bentley [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[15.Dec.08] :. When Jim Carrey says yes, he means yes. Take, for example, his work as a grumpy guy who decides to change his ways in the new holiday feature “Yes Man.” To be more positive, the character...

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Talk, Talk, Talk: December 2008

by Bill Gibron

[12.Sep.08] :. Just like the end of an inspiring speech that may or may not succeed in making its point, these final four weeks before 2009 tend to define or defeat the entire awards season purpose.

Doctored by Hollywood: Seuss books have had ups, downs in Tinseltown

by John Monaghan [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[14.Mar.08] :. Though Theodor Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss) was involved with moviemaking during his days with Frank Capra’s Armed Forces Motion Picture unit during World War II, he was wary about the way his work...

Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Mar.08] :. All the conventional plotting in Horton Hears a Who! needn't overwhelm the more important point, that "a person's a person, no matter how small."

The Number 23 (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Feb.07] :. The movie is at least nominally aware of the silliness of its device, that the finding of 23s in every frame is a game, that the meanings are more about readers' needs than some grand plan of the universe.

Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Dec.05] :. For a comedy with so much politico-cultural baggage on its mind (and it's not above using Enron as a final punch line), Dick and Jane remains curiously inert.

The Truman Show: Special Edition (1998)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Aug.05] :. You want the happy ending and Truman's self-assertion, even if that desire is shaped by those ideologies and ideals marketed by both Truman Shows.

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events: Special Collector’s Edition (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Apr.05] :. Based on three Snicket books, the film mostly takes the kids' perspective, and so delights in the gooey and the ooky.

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Dec.04] :. Elastic and not a little ewwwy, Jim Carrey's Olaf is fond of his own unclever pronouncements and unsubtle when it comes to plotting.

In Living Color: Season 2

by David Leonard

[6.Dec.04] :. Appearing during the Reagan revolution's pronounced backlash against the homeless/poor/people of color, Homey offered a counter-narrative.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Mar.04] :. At once abstract and heartfelt, sincere and weirdly charming, the film unhinges conventions of linear narrative along with romantic comedy.

Bruce Almighty (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.May.03] :. Jim Carrey needs a vacation from himself.

The Majestic (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Dec.01] :. PULL.

Man on the Moon (1999)

by Mike Ward

Far be it from me to accuse Hollywood of wishful thinking. But as the closing credits for Man on the Moon roll under Andy Kaufman's (Jim Carrey's) timid gaze, it's easy to think the film has been seduced by its own notion that a life of sufficient celebrity can offer freedom from the mortality that afflicts ordinary souls.

Me, Myself & Irene (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Charlie is mad at this point in the film, despite and because of the fact that he's the designated 'nice' part of this self-sandwich.

Me, Myself & Irene (2000)

by Mike Ward

Charlie's suppressed despair over the failed marriage and the humiliations he suffers as a highway patrolman coalesce into alterego Hank, who emerges David Banner style whenever Charlie encounters confrontation or conflict.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

by Todd R. Ramlow

Early in Ron Howard’s much anticipated live-action version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, while all of Who-ville is a-bustle with holiday shopping fever, Little Cindy Lou Who (Taylor...