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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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This year’s Supporting Actor?

by Rafer Guzman [Newsday (MCT)]

[19.Feb.09] :. When it comes to the best supporting actor Oscar, the winning hand could be held by The Joker. That, of course, is the late Heath Ledger, whose eye-popping turn as The Joker in “The Dark...

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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

Iconic - The Top 20 Male Performances of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[14.Jan.09] :. Like the gladiators of old, 2008 resembles a battle of formidable acting gods, especially when looking over the 20 choices presented below. Indeed, if anything, choosing a winner requires more of a leap of faith than any amount of critical skill - they all were that good.

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

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Independent Lens: Chicago 10

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Oct.08] :. Opening the Fall 2008 season of Independent Lens, Chicago 10 revises old ideas -- about what constitutes history and documentary.

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Chicago 10

by Stuart Henderson

[15.Oct.08] :. Where is our Chicago Ten? Where are our “conspirators”? Is Obama really supposed to fix everything? Can we really pretend that things are still getting better all the time?

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Are We Not Funny? Laugh, Damn You!

by Chris Barsanti

[5.Sep.08] :. The problem with the (inexplicably popular) Tropic Thunder may be that Ben Stiller is just not a funny filmmaker. Not even remotely.

‘Madness’ Maintains Tropic Thunder’s Gimmick

by Bill Gibron

[29.Aug.08] :. Say what you will about Tropic Thunder - hilarious Hollywood satire or sorry excuse for politically incorrect potshots - but it’s hard to deny its insularity. Of all the contained within...

Jack Black talks ‘Tropic Thunder’ and how he got the girl

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[14.Aug.08] :. They teach it in Interviewing 101: find common ground with your subject. But when your subject is rich, famous, plump and happy Jack Black, that might be tricky. Do your homework and there, in the...

Tropic Thunder

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Aug.08] :. Tropic Thunder tells you that race and masculinity and class identity issues make men in this business mean and juvenile. And then it tells you again.

‘Tropic’ Blunder

by Bill Gibron

[13.Aug.08] :. We hear it all the time, that comedy cop out meant to assuage the offender of all implied guilt: “It’s just a joke.” Be it a race under attack or a particular person getting the...

Danny O.D.: Too Much McBride?

by Bill Gibron

[12.Aug.08] :. That’s it. I’ve had it. I am officially at my character actor capacity. Nothing personal on the man in question, but after a summer where it seems like he shows up in every movie made, I...

Hulk: Revisited

by Bill Gibron

[9.Jun.08] :. In preparation for the franchise reboot starring Edward Norton, SE&L looks back at Ang Lee's 2003 version of the Big Green Meanie, a criminally marginalized movie that truly didn't deserve the critical or commercial drubbing it took at the time.

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: August 2008

by Bill Gibron

[1.May.08] :. Talk about a crowded schedule. There are more offerings scheduled this month than in the previous two combined.

Chicago 10

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Feb.08] :. You can't make this stuff up: Bobby Seale, bound and gagged in a Chicago courtroom. But there it is, again, in big, brightly colored animation, in Brett Morgen's Chicago 10.

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.

Neverwas

by Jake Meaney

[29.Aug.07] :. How did a first time writer/ director manage to nab even one of these big guns, let alone a whole gaggle of them? Would that Neverwas never were…

Clean (2004)

by Michael Buening

[5.Nov.06] :. Clean is a vividly antiseptic portrayal of pain.

The Beautiful Country (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Jul.05] :. Here, as elsewhere, the film shows Binh's experience in lyrical, subtle, often extraordinary imagery.

Hotel Rwanda (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Apr.05] :. Ambitiously humanitarian, the film uses Paul's plot to allude to the broader tragedy.

Blue Chips (1994)

by Dan Devine

[31.Mar.05] :. With the occasional exception of Shaquille O'Neal, the players here act like athletes, which is to say, badly.

This So-Called Disaster (2004)

by Samantha Bornemann

[17.Jan.05] :. This So-Called Disaster is more impressionistic than comprehensive.

Hotel Rwanda (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Jan.05] :. Faith in his own work ethic keeps Paul from acknowledging the turmoil erupting all around him.

Mulholland Falls (1996)

by Kevin Jagernauth

[8.Nov.04] :. Mulholland Falls resembles an episode of Law & Order with funny hats.

This So-Called Disaster (2004)

by Michael Healey

[13.May.04] :. The real surprise is Sam Shepard's candor when recounting for Michael Almereyda the painful details of his father's deterioration.

Afterglow (1997)

by Erich Kuersten

[17.Nov.03] :. Julie Christie's ageless beauty brings more than sufficient radiance to Afterglow.

The Good Thief (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Aug.03] :. 'I wanted to create a world that doesn't quite exist, you know, a world of nighttime clubs and nighttime criminality.'"

Northfork (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Jul.03] :. Challenges U.S. myths of enduring national identity, corporate good will, and westward-ho expansions.

The Hulk (2003)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[19.Jun.03] :. In Hulk, the comic books' critique of institutional authority and the way U.S. culture perceives and deals with difference is evacuated.

The Good Thief (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Apr.03] :. Doubles all stakes of the original film, and more elaborately, of the remaking process.

Trixie (2000)

by Lesley Smith

The protagonist of every classic thriller is, in some way or another, a Holy Fool. From the Scarlet Pimpernel’s foppish banter to Pete Decker’s Orthodox faith, from Miss Marple’s...

The Golden Bowl (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Adam (Nick Nolte) is introduced on screen with the title, 'America's First Billionaire' (this is the level of overstatement to which the film resorts repeatedly, not trusting its audience to follow even the simplest plot points).

Affliction (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Snow. Wind. Emptiness. The first images in Affliction are white and desolate. They show late October in small town New Hampshire, and Halloween is descending on frigid, early evening streets.