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Bored New World: How the Zach Braff Prototype Is Slowly Killing American Music

by Chris Milam

[26.Oct.09] :. Natalie Portman popped headphones onto Zach Braff's head and said, "This song will change your life." The resulting sound was not only that of carefully composed dullness, but of a million wealthy white kids investing in dull acoustic music to soundtrack their own romantic melodrama.

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Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 1: The Thin Red Line to Star Wars Episode I (January - May 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[23.Mar.09] :. The first part of PopMatters' look back at the films of 1999 is bookended by the long awaited return of two cinematic auteurs of wildly different styles, Terrence Malick and George Lucas.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

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My Blueberry Nights (2007)

by Bill Gibron

[29.Jun.08] :. True fans of cinema generally hate dubbed foreign films. Not only do they miss the beauty of the native language, but every rerecording job seems to feature Western actors misinterpreting the...

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Norah Jones tries her hand at acting in ‘My Blueberry Nights’

by Rafer Guzmán [Newsday (MCT)]

[10.Apr.08] :. It was the kind of offer that most Hollywood A-listers would jump at: a chance to work with Wong Kar-Wai, the critically acclaimed Hong Kong director of “In the Mood for Love” and...

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My Blueberry Nights

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Apr.08] :. In Blueberry Nights, attractions are premised on separate losses, cultivations of similar heartaches, and delights in desserts.

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The Other Boleyn Girl

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Feb.08] :. Based on the bodice-ripping novel by Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl is, in a word, ridiculous.

Mr. Magoriums Wonder Emporium

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Nov.07] :. The adults aren't fully to blame for their dreariness, as they are saddled with a cumbersome script that too plainly emulates Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

‘Goya’s Ghost’ director witnessed parallels to the Inquisition

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[26.Jul.07] :. Miloš Forman first heard about the Spanish Inquisition when he was a student in Prague. “It was probably my first shock as a citizen,” says the 75-year-old, two-time Oscar winning...

Goya’s Ghosts (Los Fantasmas de Goya) (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Jul.07] :. If Miloš Forman's movie doesn't take up his distinctive visual style, it does embrace his broad satire, ferociously targeting religious, state, and financial leaders.

Free Zone (2005)

by Jake Meaney

[9.Jul.07] :. After the initial early promise of its opening 15 minutes or so, the film resorts to spinning its wheels, then driving down dead-end alleys, and then plowing head-long into exactly the sort of heavy-handed didactic symbolism that gives me fits and has me reaching for the remote.

V for Vendetta (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Aug.06] :. "He's a pretty complex man," says Hugo Weaving of V. "He's been imprisoned and tortured and abused mentally and physically... and then burnt in fire."

Free Zone (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.May.06] :. The first shot of Amos Gitai's new film is arresting. Natalie Portman cries for eight minutes.

V for Vendetta (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Mar.06] :. The Natalie Portman film is an earnestly angry, vaguely philosophical, but ultimately generic action movie.

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.May.05] :. For all its lavish effects, Sith's primary purpose is to showcase Anakin's dilemma.

Closer (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Apr.05] :. This leads to titillation, judgment, desire, and commerce all around. How Howard Stern.

Garden State (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Dec.04] :. Natalie Portman brings to this sad, strange, vibrant girl her own remarkable, brilliant energy.

Closer (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Dec.04] :. This leads to titillation, judgment, desire, and commerce all around. How Howard Stern.

Garden State (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Jul.04] :. 'As far back as I can remember,' Large sighs, 'I've been medicated.'"

Cold Mountain: Collector’s Edition (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Jul.04] :. Anthony Minghella's image of the birds in snow articulates Cold Mountain's aesthetic and themes, its interest in collision and reverie, in nostalgia and resistance.

Cold Mountain (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Dec.03] :. The first scene in Cold Mountain is sensational and sickening, an apt introduction to what will be a Civil War saga.

Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones (2002)

by Tara Taghizadeh

[24.May.02] :. So in a post-September 11th world replete with conflicts from Afghanistan to continuous Palestinian-Israeli disputes, the lines between good and evil often seem blurry, and the cut-and-dry antics of galactic warriors instill a sense of hope, a realization of what morality should be. Who would've thought that the likes of Yoda, Obi Wan Kenobi and Chewbacca would serve as heroes for a celluloid generation whose sense of a world order would become crystal clear as a result of a few fictional characters?"

Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones (2002)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[15.May.02] :. There are so very many characters playing central roles in the second half of the series, and accounting for all of their geneses is tricky indeed.

Where the Heart Is (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Thank god for Joan Cusack. As the sole truly cynical character in TV producer Matt (Roseanne, A Different World) Williams’s feature film directing debut, she is desperately...