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Synecdoche New York

by Evan Sawdey

[20.Mar.09] :. Consumed with existential dread, this film captures the feeling of near-death angst remarkably well, enough to the point where it's not Caden that's feeling it -- it's the audience.

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Michelle Williams gets to the heart of a forlorn character in ‘Wendy and Lucy’

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[29.Jan.09] :. Only a few minutes into “Wendy and Lucy,” there’s no doubt that Michelle Williams - playing a hard-luck vagabond stuck in a Pacific Northwest town when she loses her dog - owns the...

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

Best Complexities in 2008

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Jan.09] :. The most remarkable films of 2008 were small, smart, and complicated. While they're surely worth seeking out for their own pleasures, they also represent the sort of movies that will find theatrical releases even harder to manage in the shrinking economy.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

The New Classics - The 30 Best Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[16.Jan.09] :. Unlike previous years, where classics came crawling out of the celluloid woodwork with regular reckless abandon, 2008 was more calm… and considered. That's not to say that choosing 30 top titles was hard. The difficulty in placing them in some manner of rank order suggests the actual depth of quality involved.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

Outside the Lines - The Top 20 International/Indie Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[15.Jan.09] :. With many indie/international films receiving more and more mainstream approval from unfamiliar audiences, many of the titles here could be considered part of the overall 2008 Best Of. But their individuality and multicultural appeal keep them a quality concept apart.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

Tough and Tender - The Top 20 Female Performances of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[14.Jan.09] :. Twenty talented ladies, 20 performances worthy of multiple little gold men. Unfortunately, as in all years, someone has to come out on top. But after looking over this impressive list, picking the preeminent turn of 2008 seems almost impossible.

Off the Radar - The Top 30 DVDs of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[13.Jan.09] :. Oddly enough, while the major studios continue scratching their heads over how to sell yet another new format (Blu-ray) to disinterested consumers, several outside distributors made sure that this would be a digital year to remember.

Kaufman’s ‘Synecdoche’ Is Complex, Compelling Quirk

by Bill Gibron

[18.Dec.08] :. Love isn’t easy. Neither is life. Both bring us so much sorrow and pain that it’s weird how obsessive we are over each one. We covet them both, loathe the times when we are without them,...

Charlie Kaufman as director: On the whole, he’s up to the parts

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[6.Nov.08] :. TORONTO - “I don’t need to be mentored,” says Charlie Kaufman, a touch indignant, when asked if Spike Jonze helped out with advice on “Synecdoche, New York.” The film,...

Synecdoche, New York

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Oct.08] :. Much like protagonists in previous Charlie Kaufman scripts, Caden is an artist in search of his art.

Identities in Flux

by Chris Barsanti

[24.Oct.08] :. Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York is performance art as civilization-annihilating Godzilla, whereas Eastwood's Changeling is a film that wins the stranger than fiction category, hands-down.

Deception

by Barbara Herman

[15.Oct.08] :. Like the sex scenes, the film itself is cold and remote, and as viewers, we merely go through the motions, watching it.

Talk, Talk, Talk: October 2008

by Bill Gibron

[10.Sep.08] :. What studio suit thought this was a good idea? With four months to schedule your high priced efforts, you instead unload almost 30 overpriced pictures on an unsuspecting movie audience.

I’m Not There, and Neither Are You

by George Reisch, Peter Vernezze and Paul Lulewicz

[9.Sep.08] :. The Bob Dylan film, I’m Not There, shows that the main puzzle behind pop music’s most enigmatic personality resides right here, within us all.

Deception

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Apr.08] :. Deception is less a thriller than it is a contest between boys with big egos, assorted women dropped in as pseudo-exotic objects of exchange.

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.

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Female

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Jan.08] :. From the most sweetly nuanced performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh's career to Cate Blanchett's revelatory portrayal of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, the women of 2007 were stellar.

Director Todd Haynes rediscovers Bob Dylan

by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[26.Nov.07] :. NEW YORK—It was in the year 2000 that filmmaker Todd Haynes rediscovered Bob Dylan all over again. “I had always admired Dylan—I was a fan in high school—but then I kind of...

The Hottest State

by Cynthia Fuchs

[31.Aug.07] :. For a film set mostly inside one character's head, The Hottest State spends a lot of time on the road.

Monkey Business (Part 4: August)

by Bill Gibron

[4.May.07] :. In past years, Hollywood purposely counter programmed these renowned Cineplex dog days, trying to offset the perception that cinematic scraps were all the studios had to offer. From the look of this lame list, it's apparently back to the filmic fridge for some patently warmed over offerings.

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Apr.06] :. While the movie's poetry is often stunning, the DVD docs are decidedly and disappointingly banal.

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Dec.05] :. It's Alma's silence that makes Brokeback Mountain feel so serious. Her pain is neither exquisite nor elegiac. It is only hard.

Imaginary Heroes (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Mar.05] :. Dan Harris's Imaginary Heroes keeps digging into Sandy's darkly-secreted past, producing revelations less surprising than wearisome.

The United States of Leland (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Sep.04] :. Leland meets a teacher who's been tending to young hard cases for too long.

Michelle Williams: Do You Know

by Emily Sogn

[7.Jun.04] :. Michelle Williams, for the uninitiated, is one third of the on-again/off-again pop powerhouse that was Destiny’s Child. The newest member of the group, joining in 2000 to replace LeToya Luckett...

The United States of Leland (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Apr.04] :. Leland will come to be instructive and redemptive for others, just as he has tried to find instruction and redemption in others.

Dawson’s Creek: The Complete First Season

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.May.03] :. Dawson Leery is not what you'd call a headlong rusher.

Me Without You (2001)

by Leah Hochbaum

[1.Aug.02] :. Me Without You is a disquieting and stunningly accurate depiction of female friendship.

Dawson’s Creek

by Rachel Hyland

Agonising over life decisions whilst looking hot is the hallmark of the teen drama.