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One movie critic’s top 12 Paul Newman films

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[28.Sep.08] :. PHILADELPHIA—If you’re looking for a dozen of Paul Newman’s best, you’d want to start here: “The Long, Hot Summer” (1958)—Newman and Joanne Woodward blaze...

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Actor Paul Newman dies of cancer

by MarketWatch [MarketWatch (MCT)]

[27.Sep.08] :. NEW YORK—Paul Newman, actor, philanthropist and businessman, died Friday of cancer at age 83, media reports said. The Academy Award-winner died at his home in Westport, Conn., the Associated...

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1967 — a very good year for the antihero

by Bruce Dancis [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[12.Sep.08] :. “Cool Hand Luke,” starring Paul Newman, is filled with contrasts and ironies. At times, Stuart Rosenberg’s 1967 film seems like a feel-good movie about prisoners on a Southern...

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‘The Hustler’ gets new spin

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[12.Jun.07] :. Paul Newman finally won his best actor Academy Award in 1987, for reprising his role of pool shark Fast Eddie Felson in “The Color of Money.” But with all due respect, Newman earned the...

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Our Town (2003)

by Samantha Bornemann

[28.Feb.05] :. Our Town is revered for its simple structure and shorthand summation of the human journey.

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A New Kind of Love (1963)

by Kevin Jagernauth

[7.Feb.05] :. The film offers up a timeless double standard: a man who has many sexual partners is considered masculine, but a woman with multiple partners is a slut.

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Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)

by Matthew Callan

[3.May.04] :. The viewer is left feeling that the Manhattan Project would have been a fantastic topic for a miniseries, but is an awful one for a 120-minute studio flick.

 

Nobody’s Fool (1994)

by Jesse Hassenger

[9.Sep.03] :. Paul Newman plays Donald 'Sully' Sullivan, a shiftless 60-year-old forever dodging his responsibilities.

 

Road to Perdition (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Jul.02] :. The perfectly grim surface evokes eons of pain, as well as a highly stylized contemporary sensibility, not so much cynical as skeptical and self-aware.

 

Where the Money Is (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Where the Money Is opens with two high school graduates — played improbably by Linda Fiorentino and Dermot Mulroney — cruising down a nighttime road in their snazzy blue Mustang...

 

Robert Altman Collection: Donald Sutherland, Elliot Gould, Robert Duvall, Carol Burnett - PopMatters

by Matt Mazur

This uneven collection is a definite example of the adage 'when he's good, he's very good, but when he's bad, he's very bad'.

 
 
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