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Science Is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painleve

by Ian Chant

[6.May.09] :. The varying styles range from meditative monochrome fantasies that wouldn’t be out of place in a Cocteau retrospective to surrealist inspired, almost hallucinatory ballets of movement and color.

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

Part 3: The Sixth Sense to Fight Club (August - October 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[25.Mar.09] :. Films that have left a lasting impression on their creators (M. Night Shyamalan, Sam Mendes, David Fincher) make up the majority of Part Three of our Films of 1999 overview.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

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

Part 1: The Thin Red Line to Star Wars Episode I (January - May 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[23.Mar.09] :. The first part of PopMatters' look back at the films of 1999 is bookended by the long awaited return of two cinematic auteurs of wildly different styles, Terrence Malick and George Lucas.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

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Superheroes Versus Comics

by shathley Q

[27.Jan.09] :. There can be no doubt that the summer of 2008 stands as a high-water mark for superheroes. But in the wake of a superhero renaissance and the growing cultural legitimacy of the genre, the question must be posed: Has the superhero genre evolved beyond the comics medium?

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Suspense is ‘Valkyrie’‘s Saving Grace

by Bill Gibron

[23.Dec.08] :. World War II remains the ultimate cinematic backdrop for elements both within and outside the conflict’s control. On the one hand, there are so many fascinating and intricate parts to the...

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Film Review

Valkyrie

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Dec.08] :. Valkyrie's forward motion is stalled repeatedly by hyperbolically symbolic images, which also undercut some nuanced performances.

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Yes Man

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Dec.08] :. Carl (Jim Carrey) meets the incredible Allison (Zooey Deschanel), a girl so completely charming and dazzlingly unpredictable that he is instantly convinced of the rightness of yes.

 

‘Yes’ is Better Premise than Product

by Bill Gibron

[18.Dec.08] :. It’s a very interesting question indeed: outside of a single turn as the voice of a cartoon elephant, is Jim Carrey still a viable box office draw? Better still, in a world filled with...

 
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Wanted, and the Art of Ass-Kicking Self Actualization

by Bill Gibron

[1.Dec.08] :. Screw Abraham Maslow! According to this so-called philosopher, the route to self-actualization - you know, the ultimate realization of one’s own value and worth within the context of social and...

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Talk, Talk, Talk: December 2008

by Bill Gibron

[12.Sep.08] :. Just like the end of an inspiring speech that may or may not succeed in making its point, these final four weeks before 2009 tend to define or defeat the entire awards season purpose.

 

Wanted

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Jun.08] :. Angelina Jolie has evolved. As of Wanted, she is no longer merely mortal, but her own sublime creature.

 
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Wanted: The Fight Matrix Club

by Bill Gibron

[23.Jun.08] :. Hollywood is notorious for repeating ideas. When something is successful, you can guarantee studio suits are desperate to find a way of copying it. With this Friday’s release of Wanted,...

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Get Smart

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Jun.08] :. Get Smart makes rudimentary efforts to update, with passing references to terrorists, profiling, and inter-agency competition.

 

‘Smart’ Sucks

by Bill Gibron

[19.Jun.08] :. By its very definition, something that’s “generic” is seen as “having no particularly distinctive quality or application”. This doesn’t make the object in question...

 

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: June 2008

by Bill Gibron

[29.Apr.08] :. If May almost tent-poled itself out of existence, June will be even worse. After all, are audiences really ready for 13 major release in less than two months -- with more to come?

 

September Dawn

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Aug.07] :. Jon Voight looks like a monument in September Dawn, his jaw set and eyes granite hard.

 

Teorema (1968)

by David Sanjek

[10.Nov.05] :. However much the camera lingers on Terrence Stamp's features or Silvana Mangano's heavily made up face, the characters remain corporeally opaque, more embodiments of ideas than urges and appetites.

 

Elektra (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Apr.05] :. Even as she might look toward a future, however, Elektra is all about the past.

 

Elektra (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Jan.05] :. Now starring in her own movie (following the generally dismal effort called Daredevil, in which she was, by the way, killed), Elektra is all rage, careening between hyper-organization (she arranges her bananas so they all point the same way) and finely honed, utterly scary violence.

 

The Haunted Mansion (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Dec.03] :. It is as feeble a film as you're likely to see this year.

 

My Boss’s Daughter (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Aug.03] :. Bring on the vile humor and mindless embarrassment.

 

Fellini: I’m a Born Liar (2003)

by Jonathan Kiefer

[15.May.03] :. The right way to make a documentary on Fellini is to fantasize a little about the persona, rather than to seek the 'truth' of the man.

 

The Collector (1965)

by Kirsten Markson

[3.Nov.02] :. The claustrophobic dramatization of the troubling encounter between a quiet sociopath and the woman he has confined in his ornate basement.

 

Red Planet (2000)

by Todd R. Ramlow

WARNING: The following review contains plot spoilers. Dud Planet Red Planet is freshman director Antony Hoffman’s entry into the most recent spate of films that have...