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Film Review

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Oct.08] :. As you and Alison wait for Sidney to come around, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People loses its way.

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Spider-Man 3 (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.May.07] :. The point of Spider-Man 3, underscored by all the posters, trailers, and buzz, is black Spidey.

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Spider-Man returns for a bigger-than-ever third film

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[1.May.07] :. The problem with the present? All anyone wants to talk about is the future. At least that’s the case with director Sam Raimi and the cast of Spider-Man 3, which opens nationwide...

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Film DVD Review

Spider-Man 2.1 - Unrated, Extended Cut (2004)

by Bill Gibron

[27.Apr.07] :. While Spider-Man 2.1 may add a few more dollars to the company coffers, it's definitely not doing the Spider Man series – or the digital domain – any real favors.

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Marie Antoinette (2006)

by Jake Meaney

[19.Apr.07] :. Marie Antoinette's veneer is so impregnably varnished, so buffed to such an imposing sheen, that any attempt at critical ingress either bounces off of or slides down its glossy façade.

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Elizabethtown: Widescreen Special Collector’s Edition (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Feb.06] :. The DVD of Elizabethtown is called the Widescreen Special Collector's Edition, though there's not one thing special about it.

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Elizabethtown (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Oct.05] :. Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown does not know how to end.

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Dec.04] :. Uncomfortable with his abilities (they have come on him like a virus), Peter repeatedly returns to his central question: Who am I?"

Wimbledon (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Sep.04] :. Theirs is an altogether formulaic affair -- complete with wishing on comets, lolling by fountains, running from paparazzi.

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Jul.04] :. Though Spider-Man plainly enjoys saving kids from danger and even instructing them ('Hey you guys! No playing in the street'), he also longs for a more regular, selfish life.

Spider-Man: Deluxe Edition (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Jun.04] :. On screen, Spider-Man necessarily becomes more literal, less imaginative.

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.

Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Mar.04] :. Berkley-educated, Katherine is a 'forward thinker,' a 'bohemian' who believes that education opens doors.

Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Dec.03] :. Katherine has her hands full, even aside from looking for romance (though this happens too, as this is, after all, a Julia Roberts movie).

Levity (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Aug.03] :. 'Levity' is by no means a standard Hollywood movie.'"

Levity (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Apr.03] :. Memory is a tricky business. So are movies that mess with it.

Spider-Man (2002)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[2.May.02] :. Spider-Man doesn't get caught up in its own snazzy special effects.

The Cat’s Meow (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Apr.02] :. 'The Cat's Meow' insists, you can't go back to the good old days, because they were never so good as you think they were.

The Virgin Suicides (1999)

by Todd R. Ramlow

And yet, for its many pleasures, I find myself conflicted in thinking about The Virgin Suicides.

The Virgin Suicides (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

It's hardly a new idea, to read into adolescent girls' suicide something poetic, passionate, and deeply meaningful. Neither is it a secret that countless girls have admired Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, Joni Mitchell and Tracy Chapman, seeing in their wounded and inviolate art reflections of themselves, their own pain and enchantment.

crazy/beautiful (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

From the start of John Stockwell's 'crazy/beautiful', Nicole is set up to be both typical and freaky, the kind of adolescent girl you've seen in a million other high school and/or 'crazy white girl' movies.

Bring It On (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Now this is a surprise: Bring It On is, at some not-quite-invisible sublevel, about white thievery of black cultural forms and content.