Articles tagged "ralph fiennes"

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In Bruges

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Feb.08] :. For all the showy action and spurty blood, it's the evolving intimacy between Ken and Ray that is most compelling in In Bruges.

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Bernard and Doris

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Feb.08] :. As much as Bernard and Doris is a love story, it is also a study of the difficulties of class and sex, the ways that both complicate intimacy.

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

by Bill Gibron

[13.Jul.07] :. While one might question the viability of the franchise once Rowling releases the last Potter tome... Order of the Phoenix finds the series settling in quite nicely

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Jul.07] :. Order of the Phoenix, for all its shortcomings, does make clear the sense of loss and struggle that comes with maturity.

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The White Countess (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Jan.06] :. The final Merchant/Ivory collaboration is set in 1936 Shanghai and revisits the filmmakers' usual concerns -- loss, desire, and nostalgia for a moment that never quite existed.

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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Oct.05] :. Cute but not aggravating. Witty but not arrogant. Wallace & Gromit is a clever send-up of classic horror movies.

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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.

The Good Thief (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Aug.03] :. 'I wanted to create a world that doesn't quite exist, you know, a world of nighttime clubs and nighttime criminality.'"

Spider (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Jul.03] :. It's creepy inside Spider's head.

The Good Thief (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Apr.03] :. Doubles all stakes of the original film, and more elaborately, of the remaking process.

Maid in Manhattan (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Apr.03] :. Jennifer Lopez has made a lucrative habit of reprising her story in most of her fictional incarnations.

Spider (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Feb.03] :. It's creepy inside Spider's head.

Maid in Manhattan (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Dec.02] :. This 'ethnic' modification of 'Pretty Woman'-meets-'Working Girl' uses the 'iconic' Lopez strategically.

Red Dragon (2002)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[3.Oct.02] :. What is most politically problematic about Red Dragon is how it furthers the relationship between physical disability and psychopathology.

The End of the Affair (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

On its surface, Neil Jordan's film of Graham Greene's The End of the Affair is about love. In particular, it appears to be about heterosexual love, or maybe the similarities and disjunctions between spiritual and physical manifestations of such love.

The End of the Affair (1999)

by jserpico

This is a diary of hate, reads Maurice Bendrix (Ralph Fiennes) aloud as he simultaneously types these same words onto a page. Contrary to what you might expect following such a declaration, however, there is no violent emotion displayed in this introductory scene; no screaming, no violence, no melodrama.

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...