All Things Seen and Unsaid in Scorsese's 'The Age of Innocence'
Scorsese's outlier drama of manners has aged well... mostly.
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'Phantom Thread' Sends off Daniel Day-Lewis by Deciphering Daniel Day-Lewis
The Oscar-nominated film from Paul Thomas Anderson is a revealing subversion of Day-Lewis' stable of expert characters.
28 Feb 2018
Paul Thomas Anderson Tailors a Masterpiece with ‘Phantom Thread’
Not a single frame of Anderson's latest drama fails to mesmerize with romance, suspense, and interpersonal politics coalescing into something wholly unforgettable.
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Get the Fuzzy Navels Ready, It's LGBT Movie Time
Queer, Isn't It? presents the first of five films in its LGBT Hall of Fame.
16 Oct 2013
A History Unchallenged: 'Lincoln'
Despite its considerable credentials, Lincoln avoids succumbing to the requisite Spielberg traps—save for a key few. What's interesting, and a little bit disturbing, is how procedurally it treats a sensitive topic like the passage of the 13th Amendment.
28 Mar 2013
'The Alan Bennett Collection': A Treat of Bennett's Style Combined with Eminent Actors
'The Alan Bennett Collection' brings together 11 works written for the BBC by the author of The History Boys.
14 Apr 2011
Nine Is Not a 9.0, But It Tops 'Chicago'
Well-choreographed dance numbers abound. Costumes and lighting take center stage. Audiences even get the giddy entertainment of watching movie stars prove themselves as fine to passable singers.
20 May 2010
There Will Be Blood
However fictional, Daniel Plainview is like history come to life -- more Frankenstein's monster than wax doll.
07 Apr 2008
A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007
From Julian Schnabel's artsy The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to the legendary Coen Brothers splendid adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, PopMatters counts down the 30 best films of 2007.
10 Jan 2008
Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Male
From the tender and eerie precision of Sam Riley's depiction of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis in Control to yet another superlative performance by Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, PopMatters highlights the best male actors of 2007.
08 Jan 2008
There Will Be Blood
Land, oil, blood. There will be lots of all in Paul Thomas Anderson's stunning new movie.
03 Jan 2008
The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)
They inhabit an ideal world, located, a title helpfully informs you, on an isolated island off the Eastern Coast of the United States, 1986. They coo and cuddle, he coughs ominously, and they seem momentarily content, absorbed in one another. And then comes trouble.
Cynthia Fuchs
Film
24 Mar 2005
Gangs of New York (2002)
Daniel Day-Lewis wears a tall stovepipe hat in Martin Scorsese's long-awaited Gangs of New York.
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18 Dec 2002
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