William Friedkin

Features

Crayton Robey

By Christian John Wikane

The Boys in the Band defined a moment in LGBT history. Crayton Robey explores that history in Making the Boys, which debuted at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival. [15 June 2009]

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]

Monkey Business (Part 1: May)

By Bill Gibron

Talk about frontloading your approach. Each week in this first full month of patented popcorn movies finds another famous franchise icon making a major blockbuster bow. Only truly disastrous results from these guaranteed crowd-pleasers will keep the coffers from clogging with cash. [1 May 2007]

Reviews

French Connection 1 & 2

By Jesse Hassenger

Watching the original with its sequel draws attention to the subtle but inarguably greater care Friedkin brought to the earlier film. [16 March 2009]

Bug

By Jake Meaney

Bug does what it sets out to do, which is to burrow under your skin and fester there, goading you to dig it out with something sharp. [25 October 2007]

Bug (2006) (2006)

By Cynthia Fuchs

What goes on in Aggie's head is the point of departure for Bug, which is not, as early trailers suggested, anything like a conventional horror film. [25 May 2007]

Blue Chips (1994)

By Dan Devine

With the occasional exception of Shaquille O'Neal, the players here act like athletes, which is to say, badly. [31 March 2005]

The Hunted (2003)

By Cynthia Fuchs

'For me,' declares Friedkin, just hearing the Dylan lyric spoken by Johnny Cash is worth making a film for. [11 August 2003]

The Hunted (2003)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Benicio Del Toro looks appropriately haunted in The Hunted. [13 March 2003]

Rules of Engagement (2000)

By Mike Ward

Two years ago, many critics praised Saving Private Ryan as a new kind of war film that brought the horrors of war home with an unprecedented, visceral intensity.. [1 January 1995]

The Exorcist: The Version You’ve Never Seen (1973/2000)

By John G. Nettles

The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen is really The Version That We Would Never Have Let You See If We Didn't Need New Material For DVD.