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Southland Tales

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Nov.07] :. The very incoherence of Southland Tales is something like an argument, its many pieces and pronouncements a deconstructive challenge to world order.

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Clueless: Whatever! Edition (1995)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Aug.05] :. When I first read I just thought, this is funny. This was by the lady who directed Fast Times and apparently they had the girl from the Aerosmith videos in it.

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The Haunted Mansion (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

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

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Personal Velocity: Three Portraits (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Dec.02] :. Each section lingers just a little, as if the characters will have trajectories beyond the minutes you see them.

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Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)

by Elbert Ventura

[3.Oct.02] :. Elastic yet precise, Malle's film has the vitality and vividness of a Renoir -- it breathes.

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The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

... appears to be creaking and shuffling, like it's been made by zombies.

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Toy Story 2 (1999)

by P. Nelson Reinsch

Near the end of the film The Matrix, Neo (Keanu Reeves) begins to understand his own power. When he realizes that everything he is seeing is a computer program, the payoff shot for this knowledge shows the screen filled with the 1s and 0s which make up the objects and people previously seen. The shot is stunning, and lays bare not only the program within the film's narrative universe, but also the computer work necessary to create the effects in The Matrix.

Toy Story 2 (1999)

by Jonathan Beller

Hey kids, if you haven’t seen Toy Story 2, better hurry so that you can find out what your toys are doing when you’re not watching. And maybe you’ll learn to show your toys a...