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Agonies of an ‘Antichrist’: Lars von Trier in the Forest of Unreason

by Stephen Rylance

[30.Oct.09] :. Despite the efforts of some to dismiss it as a prank, Antichrist is a serious film and its disturbing extremes speak of broad and deeply felt moral, social, and ultimately, political anxieties.

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The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview Feature

Summer of Same: June 2009

by Bill Gibron

[28.Apr.09] :. This month's "original" fare offers a take on a Sid and Marty Krofft classic, more battling seizure robots, and the retaking of '70s subway thriller. Everything old is new again.

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 2: The Virgin Suicides to The Blair Witch Project (May - August 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[24.Mar.09] :. In Part Two of our look at the most memorable films of 1999, we experience music, foul-mouthed mayhem, and a late, great auteur's final cinematic statement.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 1: The Thin Red Line to Star Wars Episode I (January - May 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[23.Mar.09] :. The first part of PopMatters' look back at the films of 1999 is bookended by the long awaited return of two cinematic auteurs of wildly different styles, Terrence Malick and George Lucas.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

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The Walker

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Dec.07] :. Like the heroes of several of Paul Schrader's other films -- American Gigolo, Light Sleeper, and, to an extent, Auto Focus -- Carter moves among women as if visiting an alien planet.

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Movies 101

by Gavin Williamson

[4.Dec.07] :. Movies101invites you to audit the NYU course with a Special Edition, four-DVD box set with interviews with 16 recent guests including Martin Scorsese, Jennifer Aniston, George Clooney, Willem Dafoe, and Julianne Moore.

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‘Mr. Bean’ speaks! (About his new movie)

by Colin Covert [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[24.Aug.07] :. "I definitely do not have the wit of Blackadder. I definitely require scriptwriters to provide that. And I don't think I'm as dark or cynical as Blackadder is in his view of the world."

Mr. Bean’s Holiday (Les Vacances de Mr. Bean)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Aug.07] :. Back with even less to say than before, Bean lurches toward his much-anticipated beach vacation with all the refinement of a train wreck.

Mr. Beans Holiday

by Bill Gibron

[24.Aug.07] :. Physical comedy is officially dead, and Rowan Atkinson killed it.

Monkey Business (Part 4: August)

by Bill Gibron

[4.May.07] :. In past years, Hollywood purposely counter programmed these renowned Cineplex dog days, trying to offset the perception that cinematic scraps were all the studios had to offer. From the look of this lame list, it's apparently back to the filmic fridge for some patently warmed over offerings.

The Pay Off: The Best Film of 2006

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.07] :. For many of the movies on PopMatters' 2006 list of the year's best films, it is clear that a heavy personal and professional stake was riding on the final product.

Inside Man (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Aug.06] :. Appearing in tight shots, the grainy hi-def digital exacerbating their complexities, the interviewees are traumatized or performative, sometimes both.

American Dreamz (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Apr.06] :. Here's the rub: does it matter that consumers know all about the badness and the cynical ambition, but watch anyway?

Inside Man (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Mar.06] :. New York is everywhere in Spike Lee's sharp, new, genre-bending movie.

Manderlay (2005)

by Jesse Hicks

[10.Feb.06] :. Lars Von Trier resists few opportunities to deride the capitalist system that breeds a permanent underclass of wage slaves.

XXX: State of the Union: Special Edition (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Aug.05] :. D quotes Tupac -- 'Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal' -- and hip-hop saves the nation.

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou: Criterion Collection (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.May.05] :. 'That's what the movie's sort of about,' observes Wes Anderson, 'self-invention, and making their own art, and all those things.'"

XXX: State of the Union (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Apr.05] :. Ice Cube makes an unusual action hero, cooler and shorter than most.

Wild at Heart: Special Edition (1990)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Jan.05] :. 'The most rewarding thing about working with David,' says cinematographer Frederick Elmes, 'is helping him see the vision through.'"

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Dec.04] :. Wes Anderson's film and Steve's filmed life creak a little, exposing seams and efforts to make sense of experience.

The Clearing (2004)

by Kevin Jagernauth

[29.Nov.04] :. The kidnapping sets in motion a thriller that doubles as a character study, delving into Wayne and Eileen's strained marriage.

The Reckoning (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Aug.04] :. The Reckoning raises significant questions concerning how news and history are shaped by those with the power to name them.

The Clearing (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Jul.04] :. As wealthy, world-weary Pittsburgh businessman Wayne Hayes, Robert Redford is typically low-key.

Spider-Man: Deluxe Edition (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Jun.04] :. On screen, Spider-Man necessarily becomes more literal, less imaginative.

The Reckoning (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Mar.04] :. The Reckoning raises significant questions concerning how news and history are shaped by those with the power to name them.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Feb.04] :. If ever there was a filmmaker made for DVD commentaries, it is Robert Rodriguez.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Sep.03] :. 'Are you a Mexican or a Mexi-cant!?'.

Finding Nemo (2003)

by Renée Scolaro Mora

[29.May.03] :. What I find more intriguing is the timeliness of Marlin's dilemma, raising his child in an ever more dangerous and unpredictable world.

Auto Focus (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Mar.03] :. 'Auto Focus' is, as its title suggests, about self-interest and -obsession.

Auto Focus (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Oct.02] :. Paul Schrader's 'Auto Focus' is, as its title suggests, about self-interest and -obsession.

Spider-Man (2002)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[2.May.02] :. Spider-Man doesn't get caught up in its own snazzy special effects.

American Psycho (2000)

by Todd R. Ramlow

WARNING: The following review contains spoilers. Confessions of a Serial Killer Much like Bret Easton Ellis’s 1991 novel of the same name, writer-director Mary Harron’s...

Affliction (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Snow. Wind. Emptiness. The first images in Affliction are white and desolate. They show late October in small town New Hampshire, and Halloween is descending on frigid, early evening streets.