James MangoldFeatures
Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - MaleFrom 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. [9 January 2008] Reviews
Walk the LineThere are so many positive aspects to this film that the empty feeling left when the it ends is utterly shocking. [12 May 2008]
3:10 to YumaAs a genre piece, Mangold’s remake satisfies the requisite clichés (sweeping desert vistas, corseted women, ample gunplay), but not much else. [4 February 2008]
3:10 to YumaAll the men in this movie think they're doing the right thing, no matter how unhinged their actions may look. [7 September 2007]
Walk the Line (2005)John R. Cash (Joaquin Phoenix) is a hard-drinking, drug-abusing, soul-searching, all-black-wearing, June-Carter-loving man. [18 November 2005]
Identity (2003)As James Mangold neatly puts it, these characters are running along 'a kind of Möbius strip of hell.'" [9 September 2003]
Identity (2003)Amanda Peet, not incidentally, throws some fine, even sublime, attitude. [24 April 2003]
Kate & Leopold (2001)Never mind that Leopold is clueless when it comes to actual labor or the concept of class; as long as he's upper, he has no need to know anything more. [24 December 2001] News
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