Articles tagged "thomas mccarthy"

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Oscar nominees like Richard Jenkins may look familiar

by John Anderson [Newsday (MCT)]

[18.Feb.09] :. The contenders for acting honors at this year’s Academy Awards are largely a collection of well-branded commodities known to millions of Americans by first name alone: Kate. Meryl. Heath. Even...

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Veteran character actor Richard Jenkins gets a star turn in ‘The Visitors’

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[24.Apr.08] :. An actor can wait a lifetime to earn notices like that. Richard Jenkins didn’t have to wait quite that long. He’ll be 61 on May 4. But the veteran character actor, the hang-dog face and...

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Film Review

The Visitor

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Apr.08] :. Tender and detailed, Thomas McCarthy's movie features beautiful performances, but is grounded in a fundamental difficulty, that Walter's education is achieved by his engagement with brown and black people.

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Film Review

Year of the Dog (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.May.07] :. Even as the film makes Peggy's life appear simple, the complexities she feels become clear in her responses to events that appear, at least at first, quite beyond her control.

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Film DVD Review

The Great New Wonderful (2005)

by Jesse Hassenger

[8.Sep.06] :. This 9/11 film is subtle to a fault; this is a quality you may not expect in a film from Danny Leiner, master of the vehicular stoner comedy.

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Film Review

The Great New Wonderful (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Aug.06] :. Lack of understanding will be a sort of theme for Danny Leiner's film, uneven but full of rewarding subtleties.

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Boston Public

by Jessica Harbour

Boston Public is, in short, a view of high school that dovetails with conservatives' worst fears: here, teachers can't teach because the students are too horny and violent to learn.