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Thrilla in Manila
Thrilla in Manila argues that the fight's promotions were so obnoxious, the race-class-and-gender politics of the sport so backwards and oppressive, that neither Ali nor Frazier could emerge intact.
09 Apr 2009
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Sputnik Mania
Hoffman avoids the “talking head” approach and relies more on actual footage than modern interviews.
Dan Heaton
22 Feb 2009
Film
Best Complexities in 2008
The most remarkable films of 2008 were small, smart, and complicated. While they're surely worth seeking out for their own pleasures, they also represent the sort of movies that will find theatrical releases even harder to manage in the shrinking economy.
15 Jan 2009
Television
Independent Lens: Operation Filmmaker
Operation Filmmaker brilliantly reveals how films, politics, and desires do their work.
29 Dec 2008
Television
Independent Lens: Chicago 10
Opening the Fall 2008 season of Independent Lens, Chicago 10 revises old ideas -- about what constitutes history and documentary.
21 Oct 2008
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Chicago 10
Where is our Chicago Ten? Where are our “conspirators”? Is Obama really supposed to fix everything? Can we really pretend that things are still getting better all the time?
14 Oct 2008
Film
Talk, Talk, Talk: December 2008
Just like the end of an inspiring speech that may or may not succeed in making its point, these final four weeks before 2009 tend to define or defeat the entire awards season purpose.
11 Sep 2008
Film
Operation Filmmaker
Engaging, provocative, and often discomforting, Operation Filmmaker reveals increasing tensions between Muthana and his would-be benefactors, including filmmaker Nina Davenport.
03 Jun 2008
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Chicago 10
You can't make this stuff up: Bobby Seale, bound and gagged in a Chicago courtroom. But there it is, again, in big, brightly colored animation, in Brett Morgen's Chicago 10.
28 Feb 2008
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The Painted Veil (2006)
The Painted Veil uses its narrative limits to make its political case, that privilege breeds ignorance.
03 Jan 2007
Film
The Omen (2006)
By the time poor Kate visits a shrink who embodies all the institutional and moral restrictions she faces daily, you're wanting everyone to jump off rooftops, preferably with nooses.
05 Jun 2006
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The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Demme's movie reasserts that the fabled U.S. political landscape isn't transparent or democratic, but instead, corrupted by the individuals who manage it.
Cynthia Fuchs
21 Dec 2004
Film
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
The Manchurian Candidate draws a line between the corporation and the government, sustaining a hope that the U.S. system might be salvaged by an honestly free election.
Cynthia Fuchs
29 Jul 2004
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Party Girl (1995)
As Parker Posey dances around the library to a club beat, Daisy von herler Mayer's songless musical is briefly in full bloom.
Jesse Hassenger
29 Jun 2003
Film
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
Tom Clancy's novels and the movies they spawn have never had much truck with credibility.
Cynthia Fuchs
29 May 2002
Film
Kate & Leopold (2001)
Never mind that Leopold is clueless when it comes to actual labor or the concept of class; as long as he's upper, he has no need to know anything more.
Cynthia Fuchs
24 Dec 2001
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