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Weeds: Season Three

by Stuart Henderson

[27.Jun.08] :. This isn’t clever satire anymore, but something like an unintentionally Bergmanesque study of moral self-destruction.

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Weeds

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Jun.08] :. The fourth season of Weeds began with Agrestic burned down and Nancy (Mary-Louise Parker) on the U.S.-Mexican border, aptly liminal.

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Film DVD Review

Romance & Cigarettes

by Dan MacIntosh

[18.Feb.08] :. Turturro has filled the screen with plenty of song, dance, and sex talk, but this is not your typical love story.

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Film Review

The Spiderwick Chronicles

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Feb.08] :. No matter how admirable the girl with expertise in fencing or spunky the twins played by Freddy Highmore, this movie is about bad dads.

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

Accepting the Blame: The Top Guilty Pleasures of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[17.Jan.08] :. PopMatters proffers its collection of 2007's most notable defective faves. And it's okay to laugh. After all, we'd probably do the same to you and your uncomfortable fixations as well.

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

 

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.

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The up-and-coming Affleck: younger brother Casey, in 2 new films

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[19.Oct.07] :. TORONTO—Don’t underestimate Casey Affleck, the reedy-voiced, baby-faced actor, who is younger brother to Ben. Like the character he plays in “Gone Baby Gone”—the...

 
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Film Review

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Sep.07] :. By turns brutal and lyrical, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford considers Wild Western mythology and masculinity, violence and madness.

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Weeds

by Jesse Hicks

[16.Aug.06] :. Once more, Mom slips into her "Godmother" persona, wades into the tall weeds of moral ambiguity, ready to make one more compromise, one more sacrifice.

 

Weeds

by David Swerdlick

[25.Aug.05] :. Weeds is clear about its stance on getting stoned.

 

Saved! (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Oct.04] :. 'I think we've all had those moments in our lives where we question,' says Brian Dannelly.

 

Naked in New York (1993)

by Jesse Hassenger

[23.Sep.04] :. Naked in New York tries to distinguish itself through flights of fancy, but these are too brief, as if director Daniel Algrant can't commit.

 

Angels in America

by Todd R. Ramlow

[22.Dec.03] :. By far the most resonant aspect of Angels in America today is its exposure of simplistic struggles over definitions of 'good' and 'evil'.

 

Red Dragon (2002)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[3.Oct.02] :. What is most politically problematic about Red Dragon is how it furthers the relationship between physical disability and psychopathology.

 

The Five Senses (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

It's about the ways that your senses are deluded and depressed by daily emotional beat-downs, the kinds of events that are so routine, they hardly register, except by their long-term effects.