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.

Duplicity

By Cynthia Fuchs

For all its bright banter and flashbacky fanciness, Duplicity boils down to this rudimentary formula: morality and success are functions of beauty. [20 March 2009]

Michael Clayton

By Cynthia Fuchs

The film's strength lies in its poetic inclinations, its meditation on the ways that money, politics, and fear shape moral choices. [5 October 2007]

Q&A with ‘Duplicity’ director Tony Gilroy [22 March 2009]

Filmmaking is part of the family tradition for Tony Gilroy [12 October 2007]

In suit-hairdo uniform, Tilda Swinton becomes legal evil [11 October 2007]