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My Blueberry Nights (2007)

by Bill Gibron

[29.Jun.08] :. True fans of cinema generally hate dubbed foreign films. Not only do they miss the beauty of the native language, but every rerecording job seems to feature Western actors misinterpreting the...

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My Blueberry Nights

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Apr.08] :. In Blueberry Nights, attractions are premised on separate losses, cultivations of similar heartaches, and delights in desserts.

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Sleuth

by Brian Holcomb

[10.Apr.08] :. Both dazzlingly brilliant and incredibly irritating, often most irritating when it catches itself being brilliant.

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Sleuth

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Oct.07] :. The various distancing effects make the watching somewhat abstract, an exercise in self-awareness.

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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.

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Closer (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Apr.05] :. This leads to titillation, judgment, desire, and commerce all around. How Howard Stern.

Alfie (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Mar.05] :. Jude Law's performance is wholly charming and energetic.

I Heart Huckabees: 2-Disc Special Edition (2004)

by Bill Gibron

[23.Mar.05] :. The Special Edition is loaded with so much self-referential material and 'oh so clever' concepts that they threaten to make the movie into its own cult object.

I Heart Huckabees: 2-Disc Special Edition (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Feb.05] :. As hard as he tries, Albert can't quite keep up with the Jaffes' questions, let alone their answers.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Jan.05] :. Kevin Conran seems pleased to admit that he has never stepped foot inside Radio City Music Hall.

The Aviator (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Dec.04] :. The Aviator portrays Hughes as a rebel and a genius, a dashing young man with ambition, hope, and nerve.

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.

Closer (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Dec.04] :. This leads to titillation, judgment, desire, and commerce all around. How Howard Stern.

Alfie (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Nov.04] :. Surrounded by urgent, provocative signposts that he just can't see, Alfie remains lost.

I Heart Huckabees (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Oct.04] :. Albert is again faced with basic questions: Are we really 'all connected'? How can 'everything be the same even if it's different'?"

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Sep.04] :. If the glorious surprise offered up by The Wizard of Oz was its depiction of a world beyond any material reality, the agreeable gimmick of Sky Captain is its imitation of what's come before.

Cold Mountain: Collector’s Edition (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Jul.04] :. Anthony Minghella's image of the birds in snow articulates Cold Mountain's aesthetic and themes, its interest in collision and reverie, in nostalgia and resistance.

Cold Mountain (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Dec.03] :. The first scene in Cold Mountain is sensational and sickening, an apt introduction to what will be a Civil War saga.

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.

A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The nuclear family has never looked so perverse.

A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001)

by Todd R. Ramlow

Interestingly, in one of 'A.I.''s inconsistencies, we are shown a society obsessive about controlling consumption and the conservation of resources, which nevertheless is still steadfastly consumer-driven: the answer to all our problems can be found in the perfect product, in this case a robotic child.

Enemy at the Gates (2001)

by Mike Ward

This is Enemy at the Gates's most elegant theme, one that its often heavy-handed melodrama almost but not quite diminishes: that to be observed is to die, but to be invisible and quiet as the dead may allow you to survive.

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

On first hearing this voice-over at the beginning of Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley, you might think you're going to see a film about regret or guilt, or perhaps a refined kind of melancholy. But it's not long before you realize that for the speaker, Tom Ripley, such emotion - any emotion - is a performance.

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

by jserpico

midst all the hoopla shouting of the probable Oscar proliferation showering upon The Talented Mr. Ripley; the ongoing comparisons (of the original series of novels by Patricia, the French film Purple Noon, and Anthony Minghella's creation); and glowing appreciation for Minghella's assembly of the most fashionable young and beautiful, there lie hidden a few very nasty notions regarding homosexuality.

The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The Wisdom of Crocodiles begins with some breathtakingly handsome images. So striking and unusual, in fact, that it’s only toward the end of the scene that you come to recognize the...