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Thursday, August 21 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
Not talking about controversial election issues is a first target for Stealing America.
Wednesday, August 20 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
The Rocker is almost salvaged by the charming performances of its actual youngsters (as opposed to the adults doing youngster shtick).
Monday, August 18 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
While Ben's (Kiefer Sutherland) bouncing between selves is distracting, it's not nearly so irksome as Mirrors' general incoherence.
Friday, August 15 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
Maria Elena (Penélope Cruz) is the figure least obviously dictated by the Woody Allen template. And for that, you are eternally grateful.
By Lesley Smith
In Clone Wars, one battle seems exactly like the last (and the next): the 'droids shoot like amateurs and the Republican troops always prevail, whatever the odds.
By Cynthia Fuchs
The international competition serves as backdrop for a cloying tale of underdogs inspired by rather sudden patriotic fervor.
By Todd R. Ramlow
Your faith and your patience won't fare well for sitting through the slow-moving, lackluster Henry Poole is Here.
Thursday, August 14 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
It's the careful, unsensational revelation of self-delusion that makes The Order of Myths so devastating.
Wednesday, August 13 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
Tropic Thunder tells you that race and masculinity and class identity issues make men in this business mean and juvenile. And then it tells you again.
Friday, August 8 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
In Man on Wire, Philippe Petit's life story is set in a much broader context, both historical and immediate, a time recollected from so many angles that the reconstruction begins to feel like another sort of stunt.
By Cynthia Fuchs
As much as Steven Sebring's documentary reveals of Patti Smith, it never tries to define her or even make her its only focus.
Wednesday, August 6 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
Pineapple Express is mostly what you expect: bonding mechanics that are unsurprising and feebly unrebellious.
By Cynthia Fuchs
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 is so fixed on representing the range of the girls' experiences that they spend precious little time together.
Friday, August 1 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
Amid all the poorly edited, atrociously written tumult, the silly CGI and the tragic misuse of Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh, Rick remains an appealing throwback hero.
By Cynthia Fuchs
Too often burdened by its own symbolism, Frozen River is buoyed by Melissa Leo's nuanced performance.
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Thursday, August 14 2008
By Robert Loerzel
The Canadian cult director talks to PopMatters about family, childhood, memory and his cinematic Gesamptkunstwerks that often look like damaged artifacts dredged up from an archive of lost 1920s and '30s film.
By Shaun Huston
Strange Culture is a critical entry point into the current discussion of what makes a documentary a documentary, most notably because it announces its own subjectivity in a clear and provocative way.
Thursday, July 24 2008
By Karen Shimizu
The famed font aspires to eerie emptiness of meaning. Now, has it persuaded us to do the same?
Thursday, August 14 2008
By Bill Gibron
It was a year for directors, decisions, and dilemmas as PopMatters' feisty film blog celebrated its second year of motion picture provocation.
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Wednesday, August 6 2008
By Matt Mazur
Bonneville is firmly committed to the “Female Gaze” in an industry where everything is geared towards only what men want to see.
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Tuesday, August 5 2008
By Tobias Peterson
Sports, as emphasized in films such as Eight Men Out and The Untouchables, are a helpful way of organizing and enforcing our daily behaviors.
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Thursday, August 21 2008
By Chadwick Jenkins
This video beautifully illustrates what a wonderful achievement Fallingwater was, making this DVD set a wonderful achievement in its own right.
Wednesday, August 20 2008
By Stuart Henderson
This early masterpiece by celebrated auteur Peter Watkins invites us to consider the possible implications of a fully co-opted popular culture.
By Stuart Henderson
Richard Elfman and his traveling musical theatre troupe The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo re-create their eclectic – I want to say psychotropic – stage show on film. Yay?
Tuesday, August 19 2008
By Jesse Hassenger
So likable that many can only describe the experience of watching it in terms of clouds and frosting.
By Jake Meaney
Picture skipping this sorry excuse for a film and going straight to the really cool extras on the DVD.
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