Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Female

By PopMatters Staff

From the most sweetly nuanced performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh's career to Cate Blanchett's revelatory portrayal of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, the women of 2007 were stellar. [9 January 2008]

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Male

By PopMatters Staff

From the tender and eerie precision of Sam Riley's depiction of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis in Control to yet another superlative performance by Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, PopMatters highlights the best male actors of 2007.

Gone Baby Gone

By Cynthia Fuchs

Part noir, part moralizing, and part urban-malaisey, the movie offers an assembly of seedy sorts who make Patrick's quest look increasingly hopeless but also ineffably gallant. [19 October 2007]

Project Greenlight

By Frances Katz

The new directors press on and are, by turns, stupid, silly, arrogant, conciliatory, and astonishingly clever. [14 July 2003]

Push, Nevada

By Kirsten Markson

In Push, Nevada, producers Ben Affleck and Sean Bailey have come up with a show that is, oddly, both original and formulaic. [23 September 2002]

Ben Affleck directs new movie rather than stars in it [19 October 2007]

The up-and-coming Affleck: younger brother Casey, in 2 new films