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DVD Film Review

Walk the Line

by Mike Schiller

[12.May.08] :. There are so many positive aspects to this film that the empty feeling left when the it ends is utterly shocking.

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Reservation Road

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Oct.07] :. Men have a hard time with feelings. This appears to be the major revelation in Reservation Road, a melodrama in which men suffer loss, grief, and guilt.

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We Own the Night

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Oct.07] :. You can see -- though the brothers take a few more scenes to catch up -- that each envies the other: Joe wants Bobby's seeming independence, Bobby wants daddy's approval.

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Film Review

Walk the Line (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Nov.05] :. John R. Cash (Joaquin Phoenix) is a hard-drinking, drug-abusing, soul-searching, all-black-wearing, June-Carter-loving man.

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DVD Film Review

Gladiator: Extended Edition (2000)

by John G. Nettles

[23.Sep.05] :. It's a bad sign for your making-of doc when the most interesting folks to listen to are the studio weasels.

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Hotel Rwanda (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Apr.05] :. Ambitiously humanitarian, the film uses Paul's plot to allude to the broader tragedy.

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Ladder 49 (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Mar.05] :. As he watches his firefighters guys bond and scuffle, director Jay Russell explains that he began the project with some qualms because of 'all the emotion involved with 9/11.'"

 

The Village (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Jan.05] :. 'I have to keep doing things that scare me, and this certainly scares me,' says M. Night Shyamalan.

 

Hotel Rwanda (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Jan.05] :. Faith in his own work ethic keeps Paul from acknowledging the turmoil erupting all around him.

 

Ladder 49 (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Oct.04] :. Sentimental and surprisingly uncomplicated, Ladder 49 seems a disservice to the very folks it wants to extol.

 

The Village (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Aug.04] :. Noah is so wrapped up in his own emotions that he seems, at first, the most literal embodiment of the film's critique of a post-9/11 American isolationism.

 

Buffalo Soldiers (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Aug.03] :. The soldiers rebel in trivial but telling ways, more often than not imitating the very systems they think they're bucking.

 

Signs (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Aug.02] :. PULL.

 

Quills (2000)

by Tobias Peterson

If we believe all that Philip Kaufman's 'Quills' has to tell us about the man, Sade is much more than a randy aristocrat -- he is a champion of free speech and artistic integrity.

 
 
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