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

Part 5: Toy Story 2 to Titus (November - December 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[27.Mar.09] :. On this final day of PopMatters' 1999 overview, awards season hype gives way to pure acting prowess and definitive directorial flair.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

Film DVD Review

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

by Jesse Hassenger

[19.Aug.08] :. So likable that many can only describe the experience of watching it in terms of clouds and frosting.

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The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview Feature

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: August 2008

by Bill Gibron

[1.May.08] :. Talk about a crowded schedule. There are more offerings scheduled this month than in the previous two combined.

The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview

 

Film Review

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Mar.08] :. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day sends a lonely, sanctimonious governess from dejection to delight within a mere 24 hours.

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Film DVD Review

Marie Antoinette (2006)

by Jake Meaney

[19.Apr.07] :. Marie Antoinette's veneer is so impregnably varnished, so buffed to such an imposing sheen, that any attempt at critical ingress either bounces off of or slides down its glossy façade.

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Marie Antoinette (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Oct.06] :. A girl made queen by the peculiar forces of 18th-century statecraft, Marie is by turns amused, alarmed, and pissed off, mercurial and imperious as only a teenager can be.

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Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Feb.06] :. The film controverts various theories of writing and reading, production and reception.

 

Dirty Filthy Love (2004)

by Beth Gottfried

[24.Jun.05] :. We are introduced to Mark as he's lying in bed unable to move, from his room, also his sanctuary from the uncontrollable world around him.

 

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Nov.04] :. This time the bloom is quite off.

 

Wilbur (2002)

by Daniel Mudie Cunningham

[23.Apr.04] :. Danish director Lone Scherfig is an expert at balancing melodrama and comedy.

 

Topsy Turvy (1999)

by Josh Jones

British director Mike Leigh has turned out a string of critically lauded short and feature length films, as well as a number of television films for the BBC. He is perhaps best known on this side of...