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Tuesday, October 14 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
As The Choice points out, differences between candidates are useful selling points.
By Cynthia Fuchs
Poignant and subtle, Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery shows how mourners come together even as they maintain specific relations with their relatives and friends.
Monday, October 13 2008
By Marisa LaScala
At first you might think My Own Worst Enemy will explore the dueling natures in every man's heart. But the conflict plays more like sibling rivalry.
Friday, October 10 2008
By Michael Abernethy
We should feel better, Starter Wife implies, about our own small lives by knowing the privileged lead lives far more painful and scandalous than even TMZ could report.
Thursday, October 9 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
Harvey Keitel makes a great entrance in Life on Mars. You expect as much, of course, because he's Harvey Keitel. But it is truly great.
By Kirsten Markson
Kath and Kim revolves around the banal suburban lives of the title characters, a clueless mother and daughter possessed of prodigious vanity and stupidity.
By Cynthia Fuchs
In Eleventh Hour, the FBI agents like to explain what they're doing and who they are -- repeatedly.
Wednesday, October 8 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
Respectful and riveting, Up the Yangtze reveals the complex effects of loss and fear, as well as a kind of relentless hopefulness.
Monday, October 6 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
The style of argument in How Ohio Pulled It Off is methodical and dramatically shaped through a focus on then Secretary of State Ken Blackwell.
Friday, October 3 2008
By Marisa Carroll
The supernatural premise underlying Bella’s quest may be fantastic, but the urgent desire to find a husband “before it’s too late” is unfortunately all too common.
Wednesday, October 1 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
Joanna Rudnick's documentary about BRAC genetic testing charts the complicated process of making decisions in her documentary, in ways alternately informative, distressing, and galvanizing.
Tuesday, September 30 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
Roger Weisberg's documentary provides a devastating critique of the U.S. health care system by following four subjects through their daily efforts to find relief, work, or counsel.
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Wednesday, October 15 2008
By PopMatters Staff
Day Three - The final ten, a cross-culture collection teeming with big ideas, larger than life visions, and perhaps the greatest documentary on rugby you've probably never heard of.
Friday, October 3 2008
By Susan Burris
Keith Olbermann has transformed news into entertainment. Countdown viewers no longer expect the facts; they expect to laugh and to think. Thank goodness.
Friday, September 26 2008
By Quentin Huff
The nihilistic, morally blurred world of The Shield reflects the inner workings of its characters.
Wednesday, September 3 2008
By Monte Williams
Having missed out on the show in its '80s heyday, a hapless Monte Williams shares his thoughts during his baffled first look at The Galaxy Rangers.
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Tuesday, August 19 2008
By Raphaël Costambeys-Kempczynski
The extensive use of mirrors in the Big Brother house behind which many of the cameras are hidden means that when the contestants hear the voice of authority, it is their own reflexion that they see back.
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Tuesday, October 14 2008
By Christel Loar
The Partridges personify the meaning of family as they parade through a series of unlikely incidents with a smile and a song. This is TV comfort food, with a sweet tooth.
Monday, October 13 2008
By Jake Meaney
Underestimate the crocodile and other reptiles, and underestimate the amphibians at your own peril.
Thursday, October 9 2008
By Andrew Gilstrap
The jokes are smart, fast, and often too subtle to catch -- a welcome antidote to nearly every other sitcom out there.
By Jake Meaney
Popular history tends to fetishize specific dates and the events they denote at the expense of a larger historical context and its cultural significance.
Wednesday, October 8 2008
By Emma Simmonds
The inconsistent early '80s British comedy sketch show, while not quite an embarrassment to all concerned, is of interest only to fans of the actors or '80s comedy completists.
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