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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.08] :. From Julian Schnabel's artsy The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to the legendary Coen Brothers splendid adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, PopMatters counts down the 30 best films of 2007.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

The Best Big Screen Eye Candy of 2007

by Daynah Burnett

[4.Jan.08] :. When flipping through my mental catalog of the year's films, certain scenes stand out. This past year offered a veritable feast of visual goodies.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

Film Review

Stephen King’s The Mist

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Nov.07] :. The Mist indicts blind belief, but doesn't escape the weight of its clichés.

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The Hoax

by Matt Mazur

[15.Nov.07] :. The film does not shy away from the innate unlikability of its leading man and it also explores, cannily, the damage one person’s dishonesty can inflict upon everyone around them.

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Emile Hirsch talks about his ‘Wild’ adventure film

by Barry Koltnow [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[28.Sep.07] :. LOS ANGELES—Now that the movie “Into the Wild” is not only a done deal but is ready to hit theaters, Emile Hirsch feels confident enough to make a confession. “If Sean Penn...

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Sean Penn voyages ‘Into the Wild’

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[27.Sep.07] :. TORONTO—It’s not difficult to see why Sean Penn was drawn to the story of Chris McCandless. An idealistic college kid who embraced political and social causes with a...

Richard Gere scams in ‘The Hoax’

by Joe Neumaier [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[6.Apr.07] :. In his new film “The Hoax,” Richard Gere does a lot of fast-talking. As Clifford Irving, one of the most notorious scam artists the last century ever produced, Gere—wearing a bit of...

The Hoax (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Apr.07] :. Even as The Hoax works to wring emotional consequence from its many layers of lies, you're hard-pressed to believe it.

The Dead Girl (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Mar.07] :. An anthology of five stories organized around the titular corpse, the movie is a bleak but oddly robust homage to women's survival and defeat in the face of violence, oppression, and non-options.

Bad News Bears (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Dec.05] :. The DVD extras are mostly valuable for the access they grant to Richard Linklater, who is a terrific storyteller and articulate filmmaker.

Felicity: An American Girl Adventure (2005)

by Nikki Tranter

[8.Dec.05] :. Even with its contradictions, Felicity offers Shailene Woodley's feisty performance and adorable little face.

Bad News Bears (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Jul.05] :. Morris Buttermaker's (Billy Bob Thornton) efforts to 'get down' with his token black player lead to slogany appreciation for the struggle ('Don't trust whitey') and the requisite 'the shizzle'.

Crush (1992)

by Daniel Mudie Cunningham

[17.Jun.05] :. Crush conveys horror in a setting where eruptions of Otherness are barely contained, if also erratically effective.

p.s. (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Nov.04] :. Simultaneously affectionate, startled, yearning, and anxious, Laura Linney and Topher Grace make awkwardness into art.

Casa de los Babys (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.May.04] :. The movie, which focuses on a group of U.S. women arrived in an unidentified Latin American country to adopt children, is as much about cultural imperialism and racism as it is about women and babies.

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).

Mystic River (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Oct.03] :. While the film doesn't elucidate Jimmy's own violent past, it is clear that he hasn't had misgivings until now.

The Education of Max Bickford

by Elena Razlogova

'The Education of Max Bickford' has yet to strike the right balance between outspoken politics and a desire not to offend.

Space Cowboys (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The aging Clint Eastwood may act like a cantankerous old coot, but everyone knows that he’s still the great American Hero, fiercely loyal, exceedingly courageous, and wily like a fox. In his...

Space Cowboys (2000)

by Paul Varner

Clint Eastwood, I guess, will always see himself as the ultimate icon of masculinity for his generation. The young Eastwood saved the Western film genre in the 1964 with the ultra-hip postmodern...

Pollock (2000)

by Kevin Devine

This is the tragedy and romanticized allure of Jackson Pollock, the man: he grew physically, he grew creatively, but he never grew up emotionally.

Pollock (2000)

by Todd R. Ramlow

Where the story of Pollock's life gets, at least to me, most interesting, and where the film 'Pollock' becomes most engaging, is in the connected story of the artist's wife, Lee Krasner.