Read PopMatters on your Kindle


Articles tagged "woody harrelson"

Film Review

The Grand

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Mar.08] :. Werner Herzog plays The German. In another movie, this might be all you need to know.

Recent Film reviews

 

Film Review

Semi-Pro

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Mar.08] :. For viewers who are already tired of the Will Ferrell sports spoof, the new installment is more of the same. For those who love the films, it is also... more of the same.

Recent Film reviews

 

Film Review

Nanking

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Dec.07] :. On paper, the film's combination of interviews, readings, and archival footage sounds unwieldy, but on screen, it is exceptionally effective and appropriately jarring.

Recent Film reviews

 

Film Review

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.

Recent Film reviews

 
PopMatters Pick

Film Review

No Country for Old Men

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Nov.07] :. The desolate landscape and moral layout evoke old Westerns, but the film, based on Cormac McCarthy's novel, also reconsiders the genre's conventions, comparing now and "the old times."

Recent Film reviews

 

Film Review

North Country (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Oct.05] :. As the film more or less locks you into Josey's perspective, it appears that even the bleak environment denotes her perpetual exhaustion.

Recent Film reviews

 

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Oct.05] :. Prize Winner goes through odd motions to set Evelyn's taxing context and her admirable survival, its most extraordinary moment turns surreal.

 

This So-Called Disaster (2004)

by Samantha Bornemann

[17.Jan.05] :. This So-Called Disaster is more impressionistic than comprehensive.

 

This So-Called Disaster (2004)

by Michael Healey

[13.May.04] :. The real surprise is Sam Shepard's candor when recounting for Michael Almereyda the painful details of his father's deterioration.

 

Anger Management (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Apr.03] :. Dave (Adam Sandler) grumbles okay, to everything, his face reorganized into a permanent twist.

 

Play it To The Bone (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Two grown men, best friends and romantic rivals, beat the shit out of each other for money. It doesn’t sound like much of a plot. But narrative intricacies have never much interested...

 
 
RECENT MUSIC

In bold are PopMatters Picks, the best in new music.