Michael Mann

Features

Gone and Not Forgotten: The PopMatters DVD Wish List

By Bill Gibron

A lot of good movies are still missing from DVD. Here is a list of 25 that PopMatters feels have been unceremoniously left to simply fade away. [24 January 2008]

Reviews

Public Enemies

By Cynthia Fuchs

Sensational and turbulent, the relationship between John Dillinger and Melvin Purvis sold newspapers and attracted newsreel audiences. It was good for business. [1 July 2009]

Miami Vice (2006)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Gong Li's face and form are made for this: she absorbs the movie's energies and just like that, it hardly matters what Crockett or Tubbs thinks he's doing. [28 July 2006]

Collateral (2004)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Michael Mann's new film shows what anyone who's paid attention to Jamie Foxx has known for some time: he is excellent. [5 August 2004]

Ali: The Director’s Cut (2001)

By Cynthia Fuchs

The bravest thing Ali does is to gesture toward, wonder at, and celebrate Muhammad Ali, and then let go of him. [7 June 2004]

Robbery Homicide Division

By Cynthia Fuchs

You have to hand it to 'Robbery Homicide Division'. It knows just where it comes from. [15 October 2002]

Ali (2001)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Ali embodies a kind of car-wreck charisma -- arrogant and self-conscious, beautiful and fierce, even on twenty-year-old tape, he can take your breath away. This ability to mesmerize makes Ali who he is, or more accurately, who everyone wants him to be. He's a cipher and a screen onto which viewers might project themselves. [24 December 2001]

The Insider (1999)

By Jonathan Beller

Michael Mann's film The Insider is about blowing the lid of conspiracy off the tobacco industry. Although the film is ostensibly about one corporate produced addictive narcotic, that is nicotine, it is really about two, the other one being capital. [1 January 1995]