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As Corrine Burns, the 15-year-old Diane Lane, simultaneously naïve and hard-edged, negotiates the tensions inherent in rock stardom as well as anyone ever has on screen.
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Recount
Recount doesn't quite argue that the system remains infinitely gameable for those who know it, those in power who wish to remain in power.
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Digital Dynamite: The 30 Best DVDs of 2007
It was the year of the behemoth box set, the multi-disc triumph that tried to give long suffering fans everything their demanding little digital hearts ever desired. Here are PopMatters' 30 picks for the best DVDs of the year.
24 Jan 2008
Year of the Dog (2007)
Even as the film makes Peggy's life appear simple, the complexities she feels become clear in her responses to events that appear, at least at first, quite beyond her control.
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The Pay Off: The Best Film of 2006
For many of the movies on PopMatters' 2006 list of the year's best films, it is clear that a heavy personal and professional stake was riding on the final product.
10 Jan 2007
Inland Empire (2006)
Nikki's story takes her deep inside herself or deep inside the movie industry.No matter how you're inclined to read the film's final dancers, the scene offers a Lynchian Rorschach test. What you see tells you something about you.
07 Jan 2007
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)
Prize Winner goes through odd motions to set Evelyn's taxing context and her admirable survival, its most extraordinary moment turns surreal.
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Happy Endings (2005)
Happy Endings begins with what seems quite an unhappy ending, when Mamie (Lisa Kudrow) is hit by a car.
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Wild at Heart: Special Edition (1990)
'The most rewarding thing about working with David,' says cinematographer Frederick Elmes, 'is helping him see the vision through.'"
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Smooth Talk (1985)
As he inhabits a movie based on a Joyce Carol Oates short story, Arnold is all kinds of metaphor.
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05 Dec 2004
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004)
We Don't Live Here Anymore gives weight, indirectly, to the kids' belief that their parents form a unit.
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12 Aug 2004
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
The viewer is left feeling that the Manhattan Project would have been a fantastic topic for a miniseries, but is an awful one for a 120-minute studio flick.
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Focus (2001)
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