Articles tagged "paul bettany"

Film Review

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?"

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Film Review

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.

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Film Review

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.

Recent Film reviews

 

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 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.

 

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.'"

 
 
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