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Various Artists: Blue Valentine OST
While Grizzly Bear was the perfect choice to score the heartbreaking indie vehicle, listening to their score without the visuals leaves the listener a little wanting.
24 Feb 2011
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Wendy and Lucy
A moving portrait of a woman and her canine companion as well as a powerful comment on contemporary American poverty.
Luke Z. Fenchel
07 May 2009
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Synecdoche New York
Consumed with existential dread, this film captures the feeling of near-death angst remarkably well, enough to the point where it's not Caden that's feeling it -- it's the audience.
19 Mar 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
Film
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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Outside the Lines - The Top 20 International/Indie Films of 2008
With many indie/international films receiving more and more mainstream approval from unfamiliar audiences, many of the titles here could be considered part of the overall 2008 Best Of. But their individuality and multicultural appeal keep them a quality concept apart.
14 Jan 2009
Film
Tough and Tender - The Top 20 Female Performances of 2008
Twenty talented ladies, 20 performances worthy of multiple little gold men. Unfortunately, as in all years, someone has to come out on top. But after looking over this impressive list, picking the preeminent turn of 2008 seems almost impossible.
13 Jan 2009
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Off the Radar - The Top 30 DVDs of 2008
Oddly enough, while the major studios continue scratching their heads over how to sell yet another new format (Blu-ray) to disinterested consumers, several outside distributors made sure that this would be a digital year to remember.
12 Jan 2009
Film
Wendy and Lucy
Surviving traumas, Wendy (Michelle Williams) serves as both detailed portrait and metaphorical expanse. Her pain is specific but also vague, her loss exact and all-encompassing.
11 Dec 2008
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Synecdoche, New York
Much like protagonists in previous Charlie Kaufman scripts, Caden is an artist in search of his art.
23 Oct 2008
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Identities in Flux
Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York is performance art as civilization-annihilating Godzilla, whereas Eastwood's Changeling is a film that wins the stranger than fiction category, hands-down.
23 Oct 2008
Film
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
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I'm Not There, and Neither Are You
The Bob Dylan film, I’m Not There, shows that the main puzzle behind pop music’s most enigmatic personality resides right here, within us all.
George Reisch, Peter Vernezze and Paul Lulewicz
08 Sep 2008
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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
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Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Female
From the most sweetly nuanced performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh's career to Cate Blanchett's revelatory portrayal of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, the women of 2007 were stellar.
08 Jan 2008
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The Hottest State
For a film set mostly inside one character's head, The Hottest State spends a lot of time on the road.
30 Aug 2007
Film
Monkey Business (Part 4: August)
In past years, Hollywood purposely counter programmed these renowned Cineplex dog days, trying to offset the perception that cinematic scraps were all the studios had to offer. From the look of this lame list, it's apparently back to the filmic fridge for some patently warmed over offerings.
03 May 2007
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Brokeback Mountain (2005)
While the movie's poetry is often stunning, the DVD docs are decidedly and disappointingly banal.
Cynthia Fuchs
11 Apr 2006
Film
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
It's Alma's silence that makes Brokeback Mountain feel so serious. Her pain is neither exquisite nor elegiac. It is only hard.
Cynthia Fuchs
08 Dec 2005
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Imaginary Heroes (2004)
Dan Harris's Imaginary Heroes keeps digging into Sandy's darkly-secreted past, producing revelations less surprising than wearisome.
Cynthia Fuchs
03 Mar 2005
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The United States of Leland (2003)
Leland meets a teacher who's been tending to young hard cases for too long.
Cynthia Fuchs
07 Sep 2004
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The United States of Leland (2003)
Leland will come to be instructive and redemptive for others, just as he has tried to find instruction and redemption in others.
Cynthia Fuchs
31 Mar 2004
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Dawson's Creek: The Complete First Season
Dawson Leery is not what you'd call a headlong rusher.
Cynthia Fuchs
11 May 2003
Film
Me Without You (2001)
Me Without You is a disquieting and stunningly accurate depiction of female friendship.
Leah Hochbaum
31 Jul 2002
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