Articles tagged "paul bettany"

Mixed Media

Creation dir. Jon Amiel (trailer)

by Matt Mazur

[12.Jun.09] :. Real-life married couple Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly take on the origin of Charles Darwin and family in what looks to be a boring, only mildly visually-entertaining biography. Academy voters...

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Film Review

Inkheart

by Lesley Smith

[26.Jan.09] :. The screenplay follows a listless episodic structure, in which one barely connected segment follows another without cumulatively charging the overarching story.

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Film Review

The Secret Life of Bees

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Oct.08] :. May's wailing wall appears repeatedly in Gina Prince-Blythewood's The Secret Life of Bees, each time an invitation to reflect, to remember what was and hope for what might be.

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Column: Suffragette City

The Secret Life of Bees

by Matt Mazur

[13.Oct.08] :. What could have been a brave film turned out lukewarm, lost in its own self-importance, stripped of its feminist overtones and watered down for mass consumption.

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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

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.

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Film DVD Review

The Da Vinci Code (2006)

by Marc Acherman

[12.Nov.06] :. If religion, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, is the fashionable substitute for belief, then The Da Vinci Code, judging by author Dan Brown’s quasi religious following, has asserted itself as the fashionable substitute for religion

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The Da Vinci Code

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.May.06] :. In straining to make its spaces and secrets 'scary', Da Vinci literalizes thoughts and dreams, and abandons mystery and nuance.

 

Firewall (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Feb.06] :. Is there any role that Mary Lynn Rajskub can't make strange? I mean, delightfully and eloquently strange?"

 

Wimbledon (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Sep.04] :. Theirs is an altogether formulaic affair -- complete with wishing on comets, lolling by fountains, running from paparazzi.

 

The Reckoning (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Aug.04] :. The Reckoning raises significant questions concerning how news and history are shaped by those with the power to name them.

 

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Apr.04] :. When the men's opposition is revealed in its tenderest moments, you recall that Weir's work can be supple and strange.

 

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.

 

The Reckoning (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Mar.04] :. The Reckoning raises significant questions concerning how news and history are shaped by those with the power to name them.

 

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Nov.03] :. When Master and Commander allows for deviance from such straight-ahead expectations, it is more interesting than when it heaves ho for the thrill-kill.

 

The Heart of Me (2002)

by Kevin Devine

[19.Jun.03] :. Love is a many splendored thing. Unless, of course, it tears through your life like a cluster bomb.

 

Gangster No. 1 (2000)

by Kirsten Markson

[12.Jul.02] :. Gangster No. 1's style and plot are stale.

 

A Knight’s Tale (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

They hold this discussion against the backdrop of a couple of dead bodies, one hanged and still dangling, the other in a cage suspended from the same scaffolding. The meaning is clear: life (and death) in this time and place kind of sucks if you're not of 'noble birth.'"

 

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

by Lesley Smith

A Beautiful Mind idealizes mental illness as spectacle, a feel-good gladiatorial games of the psyche where the human spirits always triumphs and love always blooms.