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Agora dir. Alejandro Amenábar (trailer)

by Brian Parks

[2.Sep.09] :. Agora Director: Alejandro Amenábar Cast: Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac Releasing: 18 December 2009 Set in Roman Egypt, Agora concerns a slave who turns to the rising...

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The Brothers Bloom

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.May.09] :. Overrated as truth may be, in The Brothers Bloom, Penelope (Rachel Weisz) is supposed to signify it.

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Definitely, Maybe (2008)

by Bill Gibron

[29.Jun.08] :. One really does have to feel bad for the Romantic Comedy. It’s a genre that’s life support system is more or less irretrievably broken. Of course, part of the problem lies in the two...

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My Blueberry Nights (2007)

by Bill Gibron

[29.Jun.08] :. True fans of cinema generally hate dubbed foreign films. Not only do they miss the beauty of the native language, but every rerecording job seems to feature Western actors misinterpreting the...

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Norah Jones tries her hand at acting in ‘My Blueberry Nights’

by Rafer Guzmán [Newsday (MCT)]

[10.Apr.08] :. It was the kind of offer that most Hollywood A-listers would jump at: a chance to work with Wong Kar-Wai, the critically acclaimed Hong Kong director of “In the Mood for Love” and...

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My Blueberry Nights

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Apr.08] :. In Blueberry Nights, attractions are premised on separate losses, cultivations of similar heartaches, and delights in desserts.

Definitely, Maybe

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Feb.08] :. As much as she wants her dad's story to be a kind of hybrid surprise, Maya early on comprehends its conventionality.

For rapper/actor Ludacris, giving back is a major role

by Kelley L. Carter [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[12.Nov.07] :. CHICAGO—Chris “Ludacris” Bridges can’t stop laughing. A rapper with a powerful vocal delivery, he keeps envisioning his big head on a little person’s body, going...

Fred Claus

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Nov.07] :. What is Ludacris doing in this movie?

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.

The Fountain (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Nov.06] :. Izzi is both Tommy's end and his means, and so, at last, not quite herself.

The Constant Gardener (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Aug.05] :. That might be the film's most potent insight, that the white guy cannot save the day.

Constantine (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Feb.05] :. Doubting his mission and his faith even as he's consumed by them, Constantine is an achingly topical comic book/movie hero.

Envy (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Apr.04] :. Scheduled to open a year ago, Envy is as dopey, uninventive, and smug as you'd expect from a movie that's 'all from shit'.

Runaway Jury (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Oct.03] :. Besieged by John Grishamish plot twisties, the actors in Runaway Jury do their best to fashion an emotional coherence.

The Shape of Things (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.May.03] :. This version of Neil LaBute's ongoing project is crisp and aggressive, occasionally alienating or annoying, that is, effectively unlike other movies.

Confidence (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Apr.03] :. They meet at King's club, where he's auditioning strippers: Dustin Hoffman, big pimping.

About A Boy (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.May.02] :. 'About A Boy' is not 'The Hugh Show'. Thank goodness.

Sunshine (1999)

by Lucas Hilderbrand

The theme of assimilation as survival strategy has certainly been covered in movies before, from young Jew Salomon Perel joining the Nazi youth in Europa Europa to Tai’s makeover from...

The Mummy Returns (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Everything in 'The Mummy Returns' is bigger and more expensive, from its impressively enormous matte shots and massive armies composed of thousands of digitized soldiers, to its great swirling sand effects and outsized characters.

Enemy at the Gates (2001)

by Mike Ward

This is Enemy at the Gates's most elegant theme, one that its often heavy-handed melodrama almost but not quite diminishes: that to be observed is to die, but to be invisible and quiet as the dead may allow you to survive.

Beautiful Creatures (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

It is not, as I've heard it called, a 'Scottish Thelma & Louise,' as this soundbite doesn't do justice to the ambitious, if not exactly realized, aspirations of 'Beautiful Creatures'. For one thing, it's less glossy and celebratory than Ridley Scott's anthemic movie, and for another, there's no road trip in it.