Articles tagged "luis guzmán"

Film Review

Fighting

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Apr.09] :. For all its attention to local "color", Fighting focuses on the white boy's progress.

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Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 3: The Sixth Sense to Fight Club (August - October 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[25.Mar.09] :. Films that have left a lasting impression on their creators (M. Night Shyamalan, Sam Mendes, David Fincher) make up the majority of Part Three of our Films of 1999 overview.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

Film Review

Nothing Like the Holidays

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Dec.08] :. Nothing Like the Holidays is like a lot of other holiday movies.

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Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs Feature

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 3

by PopMatters Staff

[16.Oct.08] :. Day Three - The final ten, a cross-culture collection teeming with big ideas, larger than life visions, and perhaps the greatest documentary on rugby you've probably never heard of.

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs

 

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: November 2008

by Bill Gibron

[11.Sep.08] :. Like the sainted sigh of relief that comes after another shriek-filled All Hallow's Eve, November usually means the start of the 'nominate me' process for the proposed prestige pictures of 2008.

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview

 

TV Review

Raines

by Daynah Burnett

[15.Mar.07] :. For all its good ideas, Raines is overwhelmed by Jeff Goldblum's characterization -- both familiar and strange.

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Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (2006)

by Brian Holcomb

[8.Mar.07] :. This was never intended to be a conventional movie, but more like a personal industrial film illustrating the process that brings the corpse of a cow to your dinner table.

 

Fast Food Nation (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Nov.06] :. Unabashedly didactic, Fast Food Nation points out the cruel lot of immigrant laborers without rights.

 

Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Jun.03] :. Deftly rearranges any number of generic conventions, from romantic comedies, musicals, and melodramas with happy endings that can't make sense but seem inevitable and necessary.

 

Confidence (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Apr.03] :. They meet at King's club, where he's auditioning strippers: Dustin Hoffman, big pimping.

 

Anger Management (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Apr.03] :. Dave (Adam Sandler) grumbles okay, to everything, his face reorganized into a permanent twist.

 

Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Oct.02] :. Deftly rearranges any number of generic conventions, from romantic comedies, musicals, and melodramas with happy endings that can't make sense but seem inevitable and necessary.

 

The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Aug.02] :. The Adventures of Pluto Nash is a whole lot of nada.

 

The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Jan.02] :. It's exceedingly good to see Luis Guzmán looking so vibrantly out of place in Kevin Reynolds' 'The Count of Monte Cristo'.