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Friday, September 18 2009

FBI agent’s story comes to the big screen in ‘The Informant!’


Friday, March 27 2009

Part 5: Toy Story 2 to Titus (November - December 1999)

On this final day of PopMatters' 1999 overview, awards season hype gives way to pure acting prowess and definitive directorial flair.


Thursday, March 26 2009

Part 4: All About My Mother to Sleepy Hollow (October - November 1999)

Outsiders and oddballs make up Part Four's formidable filmmakers, an idiosyncratic collection of dreamers and visionaries.


Friday, January 30 2009

Matt Damon likes to mix his art with politics


Thursday, June 5 2008

Youth Without Youth

"You learn more quickly, more profoundly in dreams" -- the audience becomes a part of the hallucinations.


Friday, January 11 2008

A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007

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.


Monday, January 7 2008

The Bourne Ultimatum

The Bourne Ultimatum is one of the most enjoyable documents of cultural paranoia and political alienation you’ll see this year.


Thursday, December 20 2007

Lightning strikes Francis Ford Coppola again


Wednesday, December 19 2007

Youth Without Youth

Based on the writings of Mircea Eliade, Francis Ford Coppola's first movie in 10 years is goofy, contrived, and self-absorbed.


The Bourne Ultimatum (Reviews) [4.Aug.07]
The Bourne Ultimatum (Reviews) [3.Aug.07]
A People’s Historian (Features) [9.Jul.07]
Oceans Thirteen (2007) (Reviews) [8.Jun.07]
Monkey Business (Part 4: August) (Features) [4.May.07]
Monkey Business (Part 2: June) (Features) [2.May.07]
Shallow Graves (Features) [21.Feb.07]
The Pay Off: The Best Film of 2006 (Features) [11.Jan.07]
The Good Shepherd (2006) (Reviews) [22.Dec.06]
The Departed (2006) (Reviews) [6.Oct.06]
Syriana (2005) (Reviews) [19.Jun.06]
The Brothers Grimm (2005) (Reviews) [9.Jan.06]
Syriana (2005) (Reviews) [23.Nov.05]
The Brothers Grimm (2005) (Reviews) [26.Aug.05]
Project Greenlight 3 (Reviews) [28.Mar.05]
The Bourne Supremacy (2004) (Reviews) [22.Jul.04]
Stuck on You (2003) (Reviews) [7.Jun.04]
Stuck on You (2003) (Reviews) [18.Dec.03]
Project Greenlight (Reviews) [14.Jul.03]
Gerry (2002) (Reviews) [20.Feb.03]
The Bourne Identity (2002) (Reviews) [13.Jun.02]
Ocean’s Eleven (2001) (Reviews) [6.Dec.01]
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) (Reviews) [1.Jan.95]
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) (Reviews) [1.Jan.95]
Dogma (1999) (Reviews) [1.Jan.95]
All the Pretty Horses (2000) (Reviews) [1.Jan.95]
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  22. The 10 Best John Coltrane Solos (Sound Affects)
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