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Articles tagged "samantha morton" Column: The Box Office BelletristHe’s Lost Controlby Jennifer Makowsky[25.Aug.08] :. The kids who grew up in the '90s had the haunted Kurt Cobain; my generation had the tormented Ian Curtis.  Short Ends and LeaderOde to Joy: Joy Division / Control (2007)by Bill Gibron[1.Jun.08] :. The most revolutionary thing about punk wasn’t the music, though it’s hard to imagine that ‘70s listeners were ready for the Ramones/Sex Pistols style of cacophonous crash and burn....  Film ReviewControlby Matt Mazur[12.Nov.07] :. What could have easily ended up as a humorless exercise in hipster excess turns out warm and snappy.  Film ReviewControlby Cynthia Fuchs[7.Nov.07] :. Despite occasional strange and impossibly intimate reveries, the film lapses frequently into biopickish shorthand.  Film ReviewElizabeth: The Golden Ageby Cynthia Fuchs[12.Oct.07] :. The movie feels more superficial than significant, like it's stuck behind a pane of glass.  Film DVD ReviewCode 46 (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[17.Jan.05] :. According to screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce, 'The 20th century was the Freud century, and the 21st century's going to be the genetics century.'" Enduring Love (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[11.Nov.04] :. Samantha Morton's face seems a perfect object for gazing on. Code 46 (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[5.Aug.04] :. William's seeming gift of empathy is a deception: anyone could do his job, if properly infected. In America (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[17.May.04] :. The semi-autobiographical tale of director Jim Sheridan considers the many complicated ways that 'America' works as idea and experience, the ways it engulfs, consumes, and produces its subjects. Morvern Callar (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[15.Mar.04] :. Morvern is a puzzle the film picks at but never quite solves, the focus of its probing but also respectful attention. In America (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[4.Dec.03] :. Everything in In America turns magical once Mateo appears. Morvern Callar (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[20.Mar.03] :. Morvern is a puzzle the film picks at but never quite solves, the focus of its probing but also respectful attention. Minority Report (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[20.Jun.02] :. Based on a story published by Philip K. Dick in 1956, 'Minority Report' is science-fiction of the sort that Dick preferred to write -- set in the future, but all wrapped up in concerns that are immediately relevant to the present moment (that the same concerns were relevant back in 1956 is not a little unnerving, as will become clear). Sweet and Lowdown (1999)by Josh JonesWoody Allen introduces his fictionalized bio-pic of “forgotten” jazz guitarist Emmett Ray with the question, “Why Emmett Ray?” We may ask the same question, but it really... |
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