Articles tagged "maggie smith"

Film Review

Becoming Jane

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Aug.07] :. Julian Jarrold's fictionalized biopic offers up big-boomy melodrama, full of broken hearts, romantic montages, and predictable plot turns.

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[18.Nov.05] :. It is sad, though perhaps 'realistic,' that the lesson of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is that all institutions and authority, Good or Evil, are corrupt.

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Jun.04] :. Director Alfonso Cuarón brings to the franchise a newly inventive sensibility, and, most important, an appreciation for smart cuts and brevity, especially the requisite Quidditch scene, mercifully short, dark, and stormy.

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Nov.02] :. The cruelest of Malfoy's bigotries is directed against lovely, diligent Hermoine.

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DVD Film Review

Gosford Park (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Jun.02] :. It is clear about what it is, a study of affect that is also affected.

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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Jun.02] :. PULL.

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Gosford Park (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

It is clear about what it is, a study of affect that is also affected.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)

by Todd R. Ramlow

The makers of 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone' are banking on the fact that so very many people 'have' read the books, so that the confusion of those Luddites who haven't read them matters very little.