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Film Review

Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Nov.05] :. When Lisa thaws, she's granted a limited gamut of roles, from screaming victim to gushy girl to action-heroic savior.

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DVD Film Review

Code 46 (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Jan.05] :. According to screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce, 'The 20th century was the Freud century, and the 21st century's going to be the genetics century.'"

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DVD Film Review

Top Gun: Special Collector’s Edition (1986)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Dec.04] :. One angle on this newness was the boys' deep friendships, masculine and competitive but also tender and intimate.

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Film Review

Code 46 (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Aug.04] :. William's seeming gift of empathy is a deception: anyone could do his job, if properly infected.

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Film Review

Mystic River (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Oct.03] :. While the film doesn't elucidate Jimmy's own violent past, it is clear that he hasn't had misgivings until now.

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Film Review

The Truth About Charlie (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[31.Oct.02] :. It conjures a perverse and giddy grace.

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Human Nature (2002)

by Kevin Devine

[2.May.02] :. Human Nature is largely a study of the fine line between being innovative and being asinine.

 

Antitrust (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

There’s something suspicious about a movie that might uses slogans as dialogue. This one lays out its competing democratic and capitalistic ideals by such shorthand. For example: “Never...

 

Cradle Will Rock (1999)

by John G. Nettles

Tim Robbins has never been shy about being one of them damn Hollywood liberals -- pro-union, anti-death penalty, solidly Green, married to Susan Sarandon.

 

High Fidelity (2000)

by P. Nelson Reinsch

In keeping with the spirit of the film itself, I humbly offer the top 5 reasons the new film High Fidelity is worth seeing.

 

Mission to Mars (2000)

by Mike Ward

Kurt Neumann’s 1950 Rocketship X-M may be the progenitor of space exploration films, at least if you believe the claims its video box makes for it. If this is true, then it’s a...

 

Mission to Mars (2000)

by Tobias Peterson

The following review contains spoilers. Manifest Density From the Louisiana Purchase to the Mexican-American war, the history of the United States is punctuated often by federally...

 
 
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