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Awake

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Dec.07] :. Though Awake makes a vague case against playing god in the operating room, it also argues for other sorts of manipulations, none convincing.

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Casanova (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Jan.06] :. Gaudy and giddy, this Casanova is full of energy but also strangely limp.

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Darkness: Unrated Version (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Apr.05] :. Ooky ambiguity is one thing. Incoherence is another.

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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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Hollywood Homicide (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Oct.03] :. My intention was to make a picture that on one level was a genre movie, summer movie, kind of a cop movie, whatever that genre is, and at the same time, to serve different gods.

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Hollywood Homicide (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Jun.03] :. Short version: Joe's hardheaded and eats cheeseburgers, K.C.'s into fluidity and bean sprouts.

 

Queen of the Damned (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Late in Queen of the Damned, Aaliyah makes her grand entrance. As Akasha, the “queen of all who are damned” to eternal night and grueling solitude and such, she enters a nightclub....

 

Queen of the Damned (2002)

by Todd R. Ramlow

In 'Queen of the Damned', there's something more than a little obvious about the vampire Lestat as goth rock superstar.

 

The Ninth Gate (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Roman Polanski and Johnny Depp. The match seems made in heaven, these two notoriously eccentric, fascinating, and difficult geniuses, plying their crafts, inspiring brilliance in one another.

 

The Ninth Gate (1999)

by Todd R. Ramlow

In The Ninth Gate, perennial provocateur Roman Polanski throws in his contribution to the millennial apocalypse/Armageddon/hell-on-earth films that have recently been such a staple of the action/adventure genre.

 

Casanova (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

This would be the cleaned-up, wearisome, supposedly romantic version of the notorious Casanova.

 

Chocolat (2000)

by Dale Leech

If Lasse Hallström’s Chocolat were a Disney film, it would be Beauty and the Beast. Both are set in quaint mountainside hamlets filled with close-minded people who are led by...

 
 
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