Articles tagged "kevin spacey"

TV Review

Recount

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.May.08] :. Recount doesn't quite argue that the system remains infinitely gameable for those who know it, those in power who wish to remain in power.

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Film Review

21

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Mar.08] :. Even if card counting is legal, this gangster-style brutality plainly cannot be, yet it provides long minutes of hackneyed menace, a B-movie plot point that only underlines 21's unoriginality.

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Film Review

Fred Claus

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Nov.07] :. What is Ludacris doing in this movie?

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Beyond the Sea (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Dec.04] :. Kevin Spacey looks alternately fatigued and awkward as Bobby Darin.

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Film DVD Review

The United States of Leland (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Sep.04] :. Leland meets a teacher who's been tending to young hard cases for too long.

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The United States of Leland (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Apr.04] :. Leland will come to be instructive and redemptive for others, just as he has tried to find instruction and redemption in others.

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The Life of David Gale (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Feb.03] :. Only Clint Eastwood could have cooked up a more dramatic climax to an innocent-man-on-death-row plot, which he did, in True Crime.

American Beauty (1999)

by Rhonda Baughman

My jaw slackened, my senses were jolted, and I managed to forget about the world outside the movie theater for a few hours. Yeah, I also managed to “look closer” as the tag line for...

The Big Kahuna (2000)

by Tobias Peterson

The story of the angst-ridden salesman struggling with his past, coping with regret and searching for meaning in life is a tale that audiences have heard and seen many times before. Multiple versions...

K-PAX (2001)

by Todd R. Ramlow

K-PAX trots out all the old cliches about humanity's barbarism, intolerance, and generalicky-ness. Yeah, we know, we're all a bunch of spoiled brats.

Pay It Forward (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Such heavy-handed plot designing and telegraphing makes the film more tedious than rousing.

The Shipping News (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Quoyle is yet another of Kevin Spacey's damaged souls, but a nice one.