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'Masters of Sex' Is Hardly Clinical
Showtime's Masters of Sex is daring, surprising, and often beautiful, owing much to its stellar cast and writers.
29 Aug 2018
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Underworld and Underworld: Evolution
Whereas The Matrix relied on hyper-cool outfits and the beauty of stylized action sequences to help tell its weird little story, Underworld relies on them to try to make us forget that we are watching a story this insipid.
08 Feb 2009
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The New Classics - The 30 Best Films of 2008
Unlike previous years, where classics came crawling out of the celluloid woodwork with regular reckless abandon, 2008 was more calm… and considered. That's not to say that choosing 30 top titles was hard. The difficulty in placing them in some manner of rank order suggests the actual depth of quality involved.
15 Jan 2009
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Iconic - The Top 20 Male Performances of 2008
Like the gladiators of old, 2008 resembles a battle of formidable acting gods, especially when looking over the 20 choices presented below. Indeed, if anything, choosing a winner requires more of a leap of faith than any amount of critical skill - they all were that good.
13 Jan 2009
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Frost/Nixon
No matter Frost/Nixon's efforts to revise it, history will never be the same.
05 Dec 2008
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Frost/Nixon: An Interview with a Vampire
Frank Langella seethes and pulsates with cunning as the deposed president in 'Frost/Nixon', a far cry from the grinning cowboy executive Josh Brolin presented in 'W'.
04 Dec 2008
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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
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Music Within
The film marks its "period" incessantly, with every clichéd backing track you can think of.
25 Oct 2007
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The Queen (2006)
When acting the part of a living icon, the aim is to achieve "likeness" rather than the "like", to interpret rather than replicate.
Jake Meaney
29 Apr 2007
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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
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Blood Diamond (2006)
The movie can't seem to get out of its own way, relying on melodramatic clichés to make complex political observations.
07 Dec 2006
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The Queen (2006)
The several shots of Elizabeth II driving her SUV over bumpy roadways are quite the highlight in The Queen.
03 Oct 2006
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Underworld: Evolution (2006)
Race here is not an inherent or stable identity, but mutable and mutating.
Cynthia Fuchs
19 Jan 2006
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Dirty Filthy Love (2004)
We are introduced to Mark as he's lying in bed unable to move, from his room, also his sanctuary from the uncontrollable world around him.
Beth Gottfried
23 Jun 2005
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Bright Young Things (2004)
Stephen Fry can't throw us any curveballs because he's got to stick close to Waugh, so he subjects us to formulaic depravity for three-quarters of the film, with minor variations.
Dan Devine
14 Oct 2004
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The Laws of Attraction (2004)
All this back-and-forth is tedious, in part because it means that Audrey and Daniel spend a lot of time together.
Cynthia Fuchs
22 Aug 2004
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Underworld: Extended Cut (2003)
Such contrasts make Underworld an especially good-looking vampire-werewolf-action film, even if it is over-the-top.
Cynthia Fuchs
23 May 2004
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The Laws of Attraction (2004)
Daniel inhabits a universe where his judgments, his desires, and his insights (no matter how obnoxious, self-serving, or willfully blind) are always right.
Cynthia Fuchs
28 Apr 2004
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Underworld (2003)
Underworld has more on its mind than matching its throbbing rock soundtrack to action sequences.
Cynthia Fuchs
25 Jan 2004
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Underworld (2003)
The primary point is the look -- the drenching rain, the blazing gunfire, the catsuit.
Cynthia Fuchs
17 Sep 2003
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The Four Feathers (2002)
It's alarmingly short-sighted fiction, offering only occasional glimpses of the imperial project's fundamental viciousness and ignorance.
Cynthia Fuchs
25 Sep 2002
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