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State of Play

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Apr.09] :. In this new universe where facts are mutable and ends are means, so-called ethical triumphs can only be short-term.

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Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 4: All About My Mother to Sleepy Hollow (October - November 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[26.Mar.09] :. Outsiders and oddballs make up Part Four's formidable filmmakers, an idiosyncratic collection of dreamers and visionaries.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

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Audiences turn a deaf ear to preachy Hollywood films

by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[31.Oct.08] :. Used to be, going to the movies was a way to escape the bustle and stress of the real world for a couple of hours. Lately, the multiplex has become a more tumultuous place. Choose the wrong picture,...

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Body of Lies

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Oct.08] :. Body of Lies grants Ferris the usual moral rightness -- even as he's committing questionable acts, he means well.

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Short Ends and Leader

DiCaprio Only Reason ‘Lies’ Succeeds

by Bill Gibron

[9.Oct.08] :. Ridley Scott used to make daring, original movies. No matter the subject matter - outer space alien invasion, magical sword and sorcery adventure, revisionist Roman peplum - he’d place his...

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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: October 2008

by Bill Gibron

[10.Sep.08] :. What studio suit thought this was a good idea? With four months to schedule your high priced efforts, you instead unload almost 30 overpriced pictures on an unsuspecting movie audience.

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview

 

3:10 to Yuma

by Jarrett Berman

[4.Feb.08] :. As a genre piece, Mangold’s remake satisfies the requisite clichés (sweeping desert vistas, corseted women, ample gunplay), but not much else.

 

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.

 

American Gangster

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Nov.07] :. As much as American Gangster loves Frank's intelligence and charisma, it must also condemn his criminality.

 

The talents behind ‘3:10 to Yuma’ hope the Western will ride again

by Dixie Reid [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[7.Sep.07] :. SAN FRANCISCO—Meanwhile, back at the hotel ... After a photo shoot staged at Marin County, Calif., horse stables, James Mangold and Peter Fonda are back at the hotel. Like gunfighters at high...

 

3:10 to Yuma

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Sep.07] :. All the men in this movie think they're doing the right thing, no matter how unhinged their actions may look.

 

A Good Year (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Nov.06] :. As lovely as she may be, Fanny has her work cut out for her in A Good Year.

 

No more telephone throwing, says Russell Crowe

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press]

[6.Nov.06] :. TORONTO - He couldn’t be a more affable host. He meets you at his hotel suite door with a “Good to see ya again, mate,” inquires if it’s OK to continue smoking and then...

 

Gladiator: Extended Edition (2000)

by John G. Nettles

[23.Sep.05] :. It's a bad sign for your making-of doc when the most interesting folks to listen to are the studio weasels.

 

Cinderella Man

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Jun.05] :. Whether sad, frustrated, or even thinking about losing his temper, Jim is never less than stalwart.

 

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Apr.04] :. When the men's opposition is revealed in its tenderest moments, you recall that Weir's work can be supple and strange.

 

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Nov.03] :. When Master and Commander allows for deviance from such straight-ahead expectations, it is more interesting than when it heaves ho for the thrill-kill.

 

Proof of Life (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Alice is quite visibly 'alone,' differentiated by her race and class from the folks who populate the streets, marketplaces, and televised protests against the oil company. And indeed, Alice's bond with Terry begins with the fact that he's Anglo, and she feels she can 'trust' him.

 

Proof of Life (2000)

by Renee Scolaro Rathke

The camera pans across the protest scene focusing briefly on a placard in Spanish but conveniently translated to English in subtitle: 'Shoot the Imperialist Bastards.' This sudden interjection is startling, set against a backdrop of relative fluff.

 

The Insider (1999)

by Jonathan Beller

Michael Mann's film The Insider is about blowing the lid of conspiracy off the tobacco industry. Although the film is ostensibly about one corporate produced addictive narcotic, that is nicotine, it is really about two, the other one being capital.

 

Gladiator (2000)

by Lucas Hilderbrand

They don’t make movies like they used to. But then again, why would they? Gladiator claims to be a return to the days of Spartacus, Ben Hur, and those preposterously huge...

 

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

by Lesley Smith

A Beautiful Mind idealizes mental illness as spectacle, a feel-good gladiatorial games of the psyche where the human spirits always triumphs and love always blooms.