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Dead Man’s Bounty

by Brian Holcomb

[29.May.08] :. This oddball film's closest progenitors are Fassbinder’s Brecht-influenced and just plain weird Whity, and Cox’s Americanized Spaghetti western, Straight to Hell.

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Comanche Moon

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Jan.08] :. The most outrageous and most pleasurable element in Comanche Moon, Inish Scull (Val Kilmer) is also its strangest, least plausible, and most convincing incarnation of "history."

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Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005)

by Jesse Hassenger

[2.Dec.05] :. It's a surprise that Shane Black's Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang works as well as it does.

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Mindhunters (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Sep.05] :. While the accumulating bodies and declarations of motive are unclever, Mindhunters does make good (if not quite enough) use of LL Cool J.

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Alexander: Director’s Cut (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Aug.05] :. Oliver Stone calls his Alexander 'a new genre, a masculine-feminine action figure,' more like Monty Clift and James Dean than Russell Crowe.

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Mindhunters (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.May.05] :. In Mindhunters, the relationship between realness and not is especially fraught.

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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.

Alexander (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Nov.04] :. Though Olympias is unbeatably charismatic (and plain fun amid all the drearily inclined boys), the film takes a typically Stonian approach to the evil woman.

Stateside (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.May.04] :. Dori Lawrence (Rachael Leigh Cook) is a multi-threat performer, her career reeling between movies and rock 'n' roll, sometime in the 1980s.

Spartan (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Mar.04] :. David Mamet extends his famous preoccupation with masculine preoccupations into the murky workings of the U.S. government.

The Missing (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Feb.04] :. At the first moment you see Maggie (Cate Blanchett) on screen in Ron Howard's The Missing, you know this is one of those Cate Blanchett tough-girl projects.

The Missing (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Nov.03] :. Maggie's toughness is surely enhanced by Blanchett's fabulous cheekbones and icy eyes.

Wonderland (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Oct.03] :. There's no truth in this true crime, only the fictions that sustain 'Hollywood'.

Real Genius (1985)

by David Sanjek

[12.Jul.02] :. Whereas most teen films collapse into a mindless sequence of witless one-liners and antiquated sight gags, Real Genius remains effervescent and engaging.

The Salton Sea (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.May.02] :. Danny's story is part noiry nightmare, part scam saga, and part junkie-underground travelogue.

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...

Pollock (2000)

by Kevin Devine

This is the tragedy and romanticized allure of Jackson Pollock, the man: he grew physically, he grew creatively, but he never grew up emotionally.

Pollock (2000)

by Todd R. Ramlow

Where the story of Pollock's life gets, at least to me, most interesting, and where the film 'Pollock' becomes most engaging, is in the connected story of the artist's wife, Lee Krasner.