Flash of Genius
Robert Kearns' saga is more complicated than its trite "stalwart individual against the system" scaffolding suggests. Still, the movie sticks mostly to the scaffolding.
02 Oct 2008
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Ghost Town
As you endure Ghost Town's unfunny "unfinished business," you can't help but be thankful for Téa Leoni's precision and classically screwballish physicality.
18 Sep 2008
Talk, Talk, Talk: October 2008
What studio suit thought this was a good idea? With four months to schedule your high priced efforts, you instead unload almost 30 overpriced pictures on an unsuspecting movie audience.
09 Sep 2008
Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008
From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.
08 Sep 2008
Feast of Love
Because Morgan Freeman is so good at such voiceovers, in which he patiently explains the good intentions of "humans" (usually white humans) who make terrible mistakes and hurt one another, the role is the one he seems destined to play -- for the rest of his life.
27 Sep 2007
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (2006)
This was never intended to be a conventional movie, but more like a personal industrial film illustrating the process that brings the corpse of a cow to your dinner table.
Brian Holcomb
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07 Mar 2007
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
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Little Miss Sunshine is that rare comedic film that earns its laughs through textured characterizations and authentic, humanizing contradictions.
Kate Williams
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07 Jan 2007
Fast Food Nation (2006)
Unabashedly didactic, Fast Food Nation points out the cruel lot of immigrant laborers without rights.
16 Nov 2006
Unknown (2006)
One or two resist their designations: Bound Man doesn't want to be bound, Broken Nose resents that mishap.
02 Nov 2006
Invincible (2006)
The hard-charging practice and game scenes take you onto the field and slam you into large, shoulder-padded men.
24 Aug 2006
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Even as Sheryl and Grandpa try to soothe little Olive, her father's "refuse to lose" credo creates a mountain of expectation.
Daynah Burnett
Film
25 Jul 2006
The Matador (2006)
While the next Bond film is stuck in pre-production as producers search for an A-List Bond girl, Pierce Brosnan is having the last laugh with his new film.
Kevin Wong
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19 Jan 2006
Bad News Bears (2005)
The DVD extras are mostly valuable for the access they grant to Richard Linklater, who is a terrific storyteller and articulate filmmaker.
Cynthia Fuchs
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13 Dec 2005
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