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Articles tagged "stephen rea" Film ReviewStuckby Cynthia Fuchs[30.May.08] :. Quite happily politically incorrect, Stuck pins everyone, including viewers.  Film ReviewBreakfast on Pluto (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[16.Dec.05] :. As tends to happen in Neil Jordan's films about spirited outsiders, Kitten's sense of limbo doesn't limit him as much it inspires him to resist expectations.  Film DVD ReviewThe I Inside (2003)by Nikki Tranter[10.May.05] :. You know something's wrong with your film when the most interesting thing in it is a 20-second scene featuring Robert Sean Leonard.  Film Reviewfeardotcom (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[30.Aug.02] :. Udo Kier stumbles down a dark New York subway stairway, his face sweaty and deeply shadowed, his eyes popping in that Udo Kierian way.  Film ReviewThe End of the Affair (1999)by Cynthia FuchsOn its surface, Neil Jordan's film of Graham Greene's The End of the Affair is about love. In particular, it appears to be about heterosexual love, or maybe the similarities and disjunctions between spiritual and physical manifestations of such love. Film ReviewThe End of the Affair (1999)by jserpicoThis is a diary of hate, reads Maurice Bendrix (Ralph Fiennes) aloud as he simultaneously types these same words onto a page. Contrary to what you might expect following such a declaration, however, there is no violent emotion displayed in this introductory scene; no screaming, no violence, no melodrama. The Musketeer (2001)by Cynthia FuchsInstead of being innovative, 'The Musketeer' is appropriative and (save for the very clever fight scenes), straight-up insipid. |
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