Articles tagged "joel schumacher"

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The Phantom of the Opera (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Dec.04] :. You might read this as a not-so-subtle indictment of the bourgie masses who consume popular culture: their taste sucks.

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The Lost Boys: Special Edition (1987)

by Nikki Tranter

[13.Oct.04] :. While director Joel Schumacher may not have made a perfectly genre-breaking, horror-comedy mix, he got the 'hip' part right.

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Veronica Guerin (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Oct.03] :. Such moments illustrate Veronica's earnest incentive while undermining her hard work with crazily implausible coincidences.

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Phone Booth (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Jul.03] :. We're surrounded by spin all the time and I think that many times people who spin for a living really don't know the truth anymore because, I guess, they have to believe so much in the spin that they are spinning.

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Phone Booth (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Apr.03] :. A function of increasing anxieties about security, surveillance technology, and loss of privacy, this sniper is symptomatic.

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Bad Company (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Jun.02] :. PULL.

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Flawless (1999)

by Rhonda Baughman

These are the first of many derogatory adjectives that come to my mind when trying to describe writer-director Joel Schumacher's new film, Flawless, which stars Robert DeNiro and Philip Seymour Hoffman (the latter being one of my favorite character actors, who has, sadly, two recent misses with Flawless and The Talented Mr. Ripley).

Tigerland (2000/2001)

by Lesley M. Smith

'Tigerland' turns that same step of acknowledging a responsibility greater than oneself into a personal defeat, the inevitable breaking of a rebel.