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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

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

The Life Before Her Eyes

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Apr.08] :. Calling up collective fears and resentments, The Life Before Her Eyes offers a most prosaic moral framework.

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Fast chat: Uma Thurman on ‘The Life Before Her Eyes’

by Joseph Amodio [Newsday (MCT)]

[17.Apr.08] :. Uma Thurman has always been a standout. Her name, the whole 6-foot-tall thing, those arresting, angular features, all guaranteed she’d get noticed. And she was—first by agents at age 15,...

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Film DVD Review

My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)

by Kelley Schei

[1.Feb.07] :. This film hovers somewhere between sappy romantic comedy and action movie, falling back on lazy gender-reversal jokes and super hero tropes.

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My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Jul.06] :. Eddie Izzard brings a whole other dimension to My Super Ex-Girlfriend, being wily and subversive rather than flamboyant.

The Producers (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Dec.05] :. No one can be wholly ruined in a big fat sardonic musical, a form demanding grandeur, gaucheness, and above all, giddy delights. Unfortunately, this movie musical rather forgets the movie part.

Prime (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Oct.05] :. Wise and soothing, Lisa occasionally sounds more like a girlfriend than the usual movie shrink, and this is, you think, a good thing.

Be Cool (2005)

by Tim O'Neil

[18.Jul.05] :. The John Travolta movie starts off on the wrong foot and proceeds downwards.

Be Cool (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Mar.05] :. Utterly out of place, the Rock is the most convincing character in sight.

Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Aug.04] :. In her discernible contempt, Elle stands in some opposition to Beatrix, whose ferocity is less mean than resolute.

Paycheck (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.May.04] :. 'A true hero,' says John Woo on the commentary track for the Paycheck DVD, 'always reaches out a helping hand to others.'"

Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Apr.04] :. Beatrix's survival depends on her weird combinations of passion, dispassion, and compassion.

Paycheck (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Jan.04] :. Michael (Ben Affleck) doesn't set out to control anything: he just wants to get paid.

Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Oct.03] :. This is a movie about bodies, about what hurts them on screen and in viewing spaces.

Sweet and Lowdown (1999)

by Josh Jones

[3.Dec.99] :. Even though Sean Penn brings a phenomenally hysterical freshness to Emmett Ray (and he played a similarly mustachioed maniac in Hurly Burly, without the artistic genius), Sweet and Lowdown is familiar ground for Woody Allen, replete with his usual themes.

Tape (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

What it gets you thinking about, while you watch it and for some time afterwards, is whether anyone can ever know what has 'happened,' and more disturbingly, how the tendency to want such knowledge can be violent.

The Golden Bowl (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Adam (Nick Nolte) is introduced on screen with the title, 'America's First Billionaire' (this is the level of overstatement to which the film resorts repeatedly, not trusting its audience to follow even the simplest plot points).