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Friday, October 10 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
In brief scenes, lovely or tense, mostly unresolved, Nights and Weekends indicates a slow, almost imperceptible evolution in the relationship.
By Cynthia Fuchs
High contrasts, as well as grays in between, structure John Henning and Mike Roth's moving 2006 documentary about the legal and political battles surrounding gay marriage in Massachusetts.
By Cynthia Fuchs
Body of Lies grants Ferris the usual moral rightness -- even as he's committing questionable acts, he means well.
By Cynthia Fuchs
Again and again, Ernie (Rob Brown) faces down racist thug defenders, his singular prowess signaled by the film's slow motion and big music.
Tuesday, October 7 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
In Rachel Getting Married, Kym and Rachel's relationship is routinely rocky, abetted by what's unspoken by everyone else.
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.
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Monday, October 13 2008
By PopMatters Staff
Day One - A trip back to the classic days of studio system Hollywood, complete with great musicals, amazing adventure yarns, and a couple of post-modern freak outs, just to keep things controversial and lively.
Friday, October 10 2008
By Jennifer Tang
Hollywood has rarely offered Asians opportunities to be anything other than karate heroes, geishas, wartime prostitutes, or sinister "yellow peril" villains.
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.
Monday, October 13 2008
By Matt Mazur
What could have been a brave film turned out lukewarm, lost in its own self-importance, stripped of its feminist overtones and watered down for mass consumption.
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Friday, October 10 2008
By Chris Barsanti
Watching Mike Leigh’s sublimely fresh Happy-Go-Lucky, you could be forgiven for wondering what the rest of humanity is so depressed about, anyway.
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Wednesday, October 8 2008
By Michael Barrett
Takahiko Iimura read about the American underground film movement and began making experimental works based only on what he'd read. Soon he was a leading experimental filmmaker.
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Monday, October 13 2008
By Jessica Suarez
A better than average romantic comedy, despite a plot with few surprises, this owes a great deal of its success to Segal and the sincerity he brings to his character.
Friday, October 10 2008
By Marijeta Bozovic
However we choose to brand it -- post-apocalyptic, postmodern, post-historical -- the fashion of outrageous mash-ups is intimately linked with the movies.
Tuesday, October 7 2008
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By Bill Gibron
Even the best laid, most complicated and fussed over schemes often go wildly astray.
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.
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