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]

Part 5: The Return of the Auteur

By PopMatters Staff

That noise you heard near the start of the new millennium was the creative din of a brash new breed of filmmakers tearing down the traditions of mainstream moviemaking. Their motion picture mission statements -- including the ones featured on this list -- remain the rulebook for new generations of anxious film artists. [22 June 2007]

There Will Be Blood

By Jesse Hassenger

However fictional, Daniel Plainview is like history come to life -- more Frankenstein's monster than wax doll. [8 April 2008]

There Will Be Blood

By Cynthia Fuchs

Land, oil, blood. There will be lots of all in Paul Thomas Anderson's stunning new movie. [4 January 2008]

Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Deftly rearranges any number of generic conventions, from romantic comedies, musicals, and melodramas with happy endings that can't make sense but seem inevitable and necessary. [23 June 2003]

Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Deftly rearranges any number of generic conventions, from romantic comedies, musicals, and melodramas with happy endings that can't make sense but seem inevitable and necessary. [18 October 2002]

Magnolia (1999)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Magnolia (1999)

By Todd Ramlow

There will be confusion: Deliberately vague films leave critic cold [24 February 2008]

To his latest director, Daniel Day-Lewis is ‘the man’ [4 January 2008]