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Downloading Nancy

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Jun.09] :. In Downloading Nancy, no one listens much to what Nancy has to say.

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Eleventh Hour

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Oct.08] :. In Eleventh Hour, the FBI agents like to explain what they're doing and who they are -- repeatedly.

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TV DVD Review

John Adams (HBO Miniseries)

by Chris Barsanti

[23.Jun.08] :. Avoiding the powdered-wig iconography of the founding fathers, this film broadens the view of these revolutionary leaders and their tumultuous times.

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Film Feature

Future Shock: The Death of Serious Science Fiction

by Bill Gibron

[29.May.07] :. The serious Science Fiction film genre is dead or at least on cinematic life support. As the new millennial marches forward, and an omnipresent production paradigm that substitutes spectacle for smarts, futurist filmmaking is definitely gasping for breath.

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The Holiday (2006)

by Matt Mazur

[19.Mar.07] :. Even though the nostalgic aspects are mildly graceful, the contemporary characters' every move is still riddled with cliché and schmaltz.

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Film Review

Amazing Grace (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Feb.07] :. The movie's thematic insistence on seeing takes shape through slavery, a horrible moral blight even if it's off-screen in the colonies and not in London with our heroes.

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The Illusionist (2006)

by Jarrett Berman

[29.Jan.07] :. This charming film occupies a place somewhere between Merchant Ivory and M. Night Shyamalan.

 

The Holiday (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Dec.06] :. The Holiday pretends its happy endings are premised on the women realizing their capacities as leading ladies. Really, what they're doing is finding the "right" men.

 

The Illusionist (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Aug.06] :. If The Illusionist's allegory isn't subtle, it is timely: those who seem authorities are illusionists, administering by entertainments.

 

Tristan & Isolde (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Jan.06] :. Long-haired, nubile, and eager to please, Tristan seeks a consuming passion, but is fated to fall limp in the arms of a girl who can't make up her mind.

 

The Legend of Zorro (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Oct.05] :. This opening action is acrobatic, the explosions thrilling, and the sword-fighting is sensationally swooshy.

 

Extreme Ops (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Jun.03] :. It's all about cash money -- its costs and its considerable rewards.

 

Extreme Ops (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Dec.02] :. At first, the girls-gone-wild moment is just about driving the supremely inept boys batty with desire.

 

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.'"

 

Bless the Child (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Cody's special in a very particular way -- in a second-coming kind of way -- which, in movie-logic, makes her the prime target for a slew of Satan's minions.