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Friday, October 3 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
If its political metaphor is plain, the aesthetic allusions are more intriguing, as Blindness works to show what can't be shown, to find a visual language for what's not visual.
By Cynthia Fuchs
Certainty grants Bill Maher an easy target, especially as he is, he says, selling doubt: "That's my product."
By Brendon Bouzard
At its heart, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist is a fairy tale, a collective delusion about the here and now.
By Cynthia Fuchs
Robert Kearns' saga is more complicated than its trite "stalwart individual against the system" scaffolding suggests. Still, the movie sticks mostly to the scaffolding.
By Cynthia Fuchs
As you and Alison wait for Sidney to come around, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People loses its way.
Thursday, October 2 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
Men are weathered in Appaloosa, a one-saloon town in 1882's New Mexico Territory.
By Cynthia Fuchs
Early in Leslie Cardé's smart, galvanizing documentary America Betrayed, Michael Grunwald calls Katrina "a manmade disaster."
Wednesday, October 1 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
The first odd moments of Ballast drop you into a deeply felt, barely articulated plot.
Monday, September 29 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
The wars in the Middle East hang over The Lucky Ones like high cloud cover, coloring each event during the road trip, no matter how banal.
Friday, September 26 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
Spike Lee's answer to the many WWII movies that have left out the experiences of black soldiers, Miracle at St. Anna is ambitious and ardent.
By Cynthia Fuchs
If Choke isn’t the first movie where a young narrator's self-pity, obsessiveness, and desperation are blamed on his mother, it is one of the more emphatic versions.
By Cynthia Fuchs
In an alternative universe, Jean (Viola Davis) does have a story -- one that you'd rather be seeing as Nights in Rodanthe descends into mundane melodrama.
By Cynthia Fuchs
Where's Jamie Foxx when you need him?
Thursday, September 25 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
The movie, which surely celebrates Georgiana's (Keira Knightley) luxurious "hats and dresses," also solicits your sympathetic frustration and outrage over her oppression.
Friday, September 19 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
Lisa (Kerry Washington) is Lakeview Terrace's most dislocated figure, caught between an overbearing father and a frenzied husband.
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Friday, September 19 2008
By Michael Barrett
Face slapping, bathroom porn, and obsessive, possessive, manic-depressive, aggressive-aggressive fixations define these Catherine Deneuve non-masterpieces.
Friday, September 12 2008
By Bill Gibron
Just like the end of an inspiring speech that may or may not succeed in making its point, these final four weeks before 2009 tend to define or defeat the entire awards season purpose.
Thursday, September 11 2008
By Bill Gibron
Like the sainted sigh of relief that comes after another shriek-filled All Hallow's Eve, November usually means the start of the 'nominate me' process for the proposed prestige pictures of 2008.
Friday, October 3 2008
By Chris Barsanti
Fernando Meirelles’ adaptation of Jose Saramago’s Blindness fails because the source material doesn’t easily lend itself to cinema, and because the filmmaker is clearly out of his depth.
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Friday, September 26 2008
By Chris Barsanti
The world of The Duchess should have been one of fiery tumult, but little of that foment makes it into this film’s garden party landscape.
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Thursday, September 25 2008
By Mark Reynolds
Bert Williams in blackface started a conversation about representing blackness within a mainstream context that has continued through virtually every crossover moment in black American life.
(more Negritude 2.0)
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Monday, October 6 2008
By Evan Sawdey
Every explosion and punch-line lives and dies by Downey's performance, but he proves more than up to the task, making the ride all the more enjoyable.
Thursday, October 2 2008
By Christel Loar
Before Memphis and the world made him king, Tupelo made him Elvis.
Wednesday, October 1 2008
By Marc Calderaro
Surely there has to be more interesting things to say about vampires than that they're "cool" and "scary"?
Monday, September 29 2008
By Carolyn W. Fanelli
These people would grow up in a South Africa that was shedding its apartheid history and forging a multi-racial future, while dealing with the inter-related crisis of crime, poverty, and the HIV pandemic.
Friday, September 26 2008
By Kirby Fields
My 13-year-old self that rooted along with Fletch for Gail Stanwyck to lend him her towel after his car allegedly hit a water buffalo was unable to fully appreciate the elements of noir, at the time.
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