Articles tagged "scarlett johansson"

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Goodbye, Woody

by Bill Gibron

[4.Aug.08] :. The divorce has been coming for some time now. We’ve been separated for years, but it’s only recently that I’ve even considered taking the final step. Lord knows I’ve tried to...

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A Study in Scarlett: Anywhere I Lay My Head (2008)

by Bill Gibron

[4.Jun.08] :. The old adage that actors want to be rock stars (and visa versa) has produced some equally clichéd results. No one is championing the cringe inducing drunkness of Bruce Willis’ lame...

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Scarlett Johansson: Anywhere I Lay My Head

by Leigh Kelsey

[21.May.08] :. Scarlett Johansson proves herself a striking chanteuse, along with the help of David Andrew Sitek and David Bowie.

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Scarlett Johansson, Coldplay, The Presets…

by PopMatters Staff

[20.May.08] :. Scarlett Johansson Falling Down [Video] [Listening Party] Coldplay Violet Hill [Video] The Presets This Boys in Love...

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Film Review

The Other Boleyn Girl

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Feb.08] :. Based on the bodice-ripping novel by Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl is, in a word, ridiculous.

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Scarlett Johansson takes a class trip in ‘The Nanny Diaries’

by Joe Neumaier [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[24.Aug.07] :. WANTED: Movie ingenue with great sense of humor, earthy sensuality and Hollywood heat, filled with youthful vigor yet old-fashioned movie virtues, for a comedy of manners set in New York’s...

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The Nanny Diaries

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Aug.07] :. The Nanny Diaries' focus on beleaguered women doesn't lead to any sense of "freedom."

 

Match Point (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Jan.06] :. Chris is fond of Enrico Caruso, whose voice 'expresses everything that's tragic about life,' one of these Allenish aphorisms that's probably true but just sounds trite.

 

The Island (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Jul.05] :. Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson run around in an efficiently digitized near-future scary-scape, occasionally propelled by ethical questions about cloning.

 

In Good Company (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Jan.05] :. In Good Company pushes Carter and Dan up against one another, so that they can work through their mutual anxieties, resentments, and jealousies.

 

The Perfect Score (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Jun.04] :. As Kyle's nightmare indicates, The Perfect Score includes a rudimentary political critique of the U.S. educational and testing system.

 

Lost in Translation (2003)

by Sharon Mizota and Oliver Wang

[23.Feb.04] :. Lost in Translation one-ups its peers with better music, prettier shots, and a more charismatic lead, but its racism is all the more insidious for being wrapped in a pleasing package.

 

The Perfect Score (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Jan.04] :. The Perfect Score includes a rudimentary political critique of the U.S. educational and testing system.

 

Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)

by Michael Healey

[8.Jan.04] :. Nothing drains the life from great art like a well-intentioned attempt to explain away its mysteries.

 

Lost in Translation (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Sep.03] :. . . . about seeing and not seeing at the same time, a series of incredibly precise, meticulous images of faces and hands and doorframes.

 

Eight Legged Freaks (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Jul.02] :. The we-love-'50s-giant bug-movies homage by Independence Day and Godzilla makers.

 

Ghost World (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

'Ghost World' is smart, sensitive, and insightful about the lunacy that constitutes adolescence, and never forgets how real and how complicated kids' feelings are.

 
 
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