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Patricia Clarkson HRC Gay Rights Speech (video)

by Matt Mazur

[16.Jun.09] :. ...

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The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview Feature

Summer of Same: June 2009

by Bill Gibron

[28.Apr.09] :. This month's "original" fare offers a take on a Sid and Marty Krofft classic, more battling seizure robots, and the retaking of '70s subway thriller. Everything old is new again.

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview

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Elegy

by Matt Mazur

[26.Mar.09] :. Coixet’s examination of age and the natural process of dying are refracted through a spectrum of cultures, ages, experiences and fears that are atypical of contemporary American films.

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Married Life

by Jesse Hassenger

[24.Sep.08] :. Moving slowly and accompanied by a hushed Pierce Brosnan narration, the movie is buttoned-up to a fault, never closer than tongue-near-cheek.

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Dark comic turn in ‘Married Life’ marks a departure for Chris Cooper

by Chris Vognar [The Dallas Morning News (MCT)]

[21.Mar.08] :. The strong cheekbones, the deliberative, world-weary line delivery: Almost everything about Chris Cooper suggests a damaged sense of decency. Which makes him the perfect actor to get away with...

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Fast chat with ‘Married Life’ star Patricia Clarkson

by Lewis Beale [Newsday (MCT)]

[13.Mar.08] :. The next time anyone mentions the alleged lack of roles for actresses of a certain age, say this name like a mantra: Patricia Clarkson. The 48-year-old New Orleans native has been working steadily...

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Married Life

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Mar.08] :. Richard's narration is exceptionally insidious, which makes Married Life at once fascinating and routine.

Ryan Gosling’s latest onscreen love is a real doll

by John Anderson [Newsday (MCT)]

[19.Oct.07] :. LOS ANGELES—Having reinvented the drug addict in “Half Nelson” and then parried with Anthony Hopkins in “Fracture,” Ryan Gosling arrived on the set of “Lars and...

Lars and the Real Girl

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Oct.07] :. This is the reductive conceit of Lars and the Real Girl, Lars' representative incongruity: he's so unlike everyone else that he becomes their cause and sign of sanity.

When a film is remade in the U.S.A.

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[2.Aug.07] :. Catherine Zeta-Jones dons a crisp white apron, cinches it around her waist, and gets busy cooking up asparagus terrine, quail with truffle sauce, blood-red entrecote, and other signature dishes that...

No Reservations (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Jul.07] :. That No Reservations can't imagine an alternative life for Kate makes all the energetic food-loving seem a little sad -- more sublimation than revelation.

Zeta-Jones and Eckhart dish about ‘No Reservations’

by Joe Neumaier [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[26.Jul.07] :. "Though there are times," she laughs, "when I just ... can't ... help but steal that last chicken nugget off their plate."

Monkey Business (Part 3: July)

by Bill Gibron

[3.May.07] :. Finally, a month with only one remaining series contender. All wizard based Potter-y aside, this will be the most tenuous time for the business called show. After a strong start, the eccentric collection of entertainments here could make or break this potentially record shattering motion picture season.

All The Kings Men (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Sep.06] :. As the designated observer of his friend's decline, not to mention a reporter by vocation, Jack's lack of insight or anticipation also looks a bit silly.

Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Mar.06] :. Lamenting the loss of 'people who are uncompromising,' Clooney says, 'For us, this movie is a success if some kid in Austin, Texas sees it, who is studying journalism, and says, 'That's the guy I want to be like.' Then we win.'"

Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Oct.05] :. Shot in exquisite black and white, George Clooney's portrait of Edward R. Murrow is partly reverential, partly probing.

Murder One: Season One

by Samantha Bornemann

[23.Mar.05] :. Mesmerizingly played by Daniel Benzali, Ted respects the law but understands that the courthouse is just one of its venues.

High Art (1998)

by Daniel Mudie Cunningham

[10.Jan.05] :. Where other lesbian-themed films might ride the sweat-stained cliché for all it's worth, Cholodenko instead shows restraint.

Dogville (2003)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[15.Apr.04] :. The accusation that the film is 'anti-American' says less about Von Trier than it does about the American psyche.

Miracle (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Feb.04] :. Disney's Miracle is an unabashed celebration of the connections among sports, national pride, and the wonder of whiteguyness.

Pieces of April (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Oct.03] :. And April sits in the window frame, hair damp, contemplating the disaster she expects her day to become.

All the Real Girls (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Aug.03] :. 'David and I are not smart enough to come up with a character that's as complex as Zooey is.'"

All the Real Girls (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Apr.03] :. Paul has the sort of confidence that afflicts good-looking boys used to getting what he wants.

The Safety of Objects (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Mar.03] :. For Esther (Glenn Close), Paul's coma makes him safe to love: he'll never leave her, never get in trouble worse than what he's in now.

Far From Heaven (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Nov.02] :. For Haynes, much of this surface is simultaneously supple and precise, 'girly-swirly,' as he terms it.

Far From Heaven (2002)

by Lucas Hilderbrand

[7.Nov.02] :. Just beneath this conservative façade lies a complicated and progressive commentary on the present that Todd Haynes leaves to the viewer to interpret.

Wendigo (2002)

by Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece

Considers the possible effects of transposing a 'natural' justice system onto human conflict.

The Pledge (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Whenever you see a man looking anguished and alone in the opening shot of a film, and especially if he’s surrounded by wide open space—dirt, snow, sky, whatever—it’s a pretty...

Joe Gould’s Secret (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Joe Gould (Ian Holm) is what they used to call a 'character.' You see him early in Stanley Tucci's film, scuttling into a diner where New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell (Tucci) is having coffee.