Articles tagged "paul dano"

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There will be confusion: Deliberately vague films leave critic cold

by Christopher Kelly [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[24.Feb.08] :. Walking out of a press screening of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” in early November, I turned to a fellow critic in the hopes that he might explain a plot point that...

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.08] :. From Julian Schnabel's artsy The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to the legendary Coen Brothers splendid adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, PopMatters counts down the 30 best films of 2007.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Male

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Jan.08] :. From the tender and eerie precision of Sam Riley's depiction of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis in Control to yet another superlative performance by Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, PopMatters highlights the best male actors of 2007.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

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To his latest director, Daniel Day-Lewis is ‘the man’

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[4.Jan.08] :. “Maybe it’s presumptuous to say this, but from a director’s point of view he’s the Holy Grail of actors, isn’t he? At least he always was to me. Like, `that’s the...

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Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (2006)

by Brian Holcomb

[8.Mar.07] :. This was never intended to be a conventional movie, but more like a personal industrial film illustrating the process that brings the corpse of a cow to your dinner table.

The Pay Off: The Best Film of 2006

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.07] :. For many of the movies on PopMatters' 2006 list of the year's best films, it is clear that a heavy personal and professional stake was riding on the final product.

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

by Kate Williams

[8.Jan.07] :. Little Miss Sunshine is that rare comedic film that earns its laughs through textured characterizations and authentic, humanizing contradictions.

Fast Food Nation (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Nov.06] :. Unabashedly didactic, Fast Food Nation points out the cruel lot of immigrant laborers without rights.

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

by Daynah Burnett

[26.Jul.06] :. Even as Sheryl and Grandpa try to soothe little Olive, her father's "refuse to lose" credo creates a mountain of expectation.

The King (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Jun.06] :. Though Elvis seems impelled by the memory of his dead Mexican mother and trained to deliver a certain calculated violence, his power is illusory.

The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Mar.05] :. They inhabit an ideal world, located, a title helpfully informs you, on an isolated island off the Eastern Coast of the United States, 1986. They coo and cuddle, he coughs ominously, and they seem momentarily content, absorbed in one another. And then comes trouble.

The Girl Next Door: Unrated Version (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Aug.04] :. The film begins by introducing just how hard it is to be in high school -- a good and difficult thing for adults to remember.

The Girl Next Door (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Apr.04] :. For all its raunchy allusions and language (and porn stars), the film is essentially conservative, as Matt succeeds in romance and business.