James Mangold

Features

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. [9 January 2008]

Reviews

Walk the Line

By Mike Schiller

There 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 Yuma

By Jarrett Berman

As 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 Yuma

By Cynthia Fuchs

All 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)

By Cynthia Fuchs

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)

By Cynthia Fuchs

As James Mangold neatly puts it, these characters are running along 'a kind of Möbius strip of hell.'" [9 September 2003]

Identity (2003)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Amanda Peet, not incidentally, throws some fine, even sublime, attitude. [24 April 2003]

Kate & Leopold (2001)

By Cynthia Fuchs

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]

Girl, Interrupted (1999)

By Cynthia Fuchs