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Against All Odds, 'Solo: A Star Wars Story' Soars
A young Han Solo learns the art and artifice of being an outlaw in Solo: A Star Wars Story, the perfect popcorn movie to kick off the summer blockbuster season.
15 May 2018
Anger Begets Anger: 'Three Billboards' As Southern Gothic
Watching this film in a theater in Belfast, while my fellow moviegoers cringed at the violent United States, I recognized the Gothic South.
02 Mar 2018
Francis Ford Coppola's 'Live Cinema' Is an Indispensable Jewel for Film Student and Film Aficionado Alike
A master filmmaker searches for new ways to tell old stories.
26 Jan 2018
'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri' Captures the Conflicts Over Police Violence
It can't be a coincidence this film takes place in Missouri, the birthplace of the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
02 Nov 2017
'True Detective' and the Death of Television Criticism
Something has gone wrong if critics consider True Detective the best that contemporary television has to offer.
23 Jun 2014
'Now You See Me' Is Super Slick
To be fair, Now You See Me is only nominally about super slick magic. It's really a super slick caper movie.
31 May 2013
Natural Born Killers: The Director's Cut
Stone's pedigree secure, the Hollywood maverick turned on the system itself; tarring sensationalism, public bloodlust, and judicial entropy, seemingly with the same brush.
15 Nov 2009
Summer of Same: May 2009
May's titles include the fourth films in two aging franchises, more Pixar perfection, and the reboot of a TV series from 40 years ago. And they say there are no new ideas.
26 Apr 2009
Part 1: The Thin Red Line to Star Wars Episode I (January - May 1999)
The first part of PopMatters' look back at the films of 1999 is bookended by the long awaited return of two cinematic auteurs of wildly different styles, Terrence Malick and George Lucas.
22 Mar 2009
Seven Pounds
Equally afflicted by an old-school weepies affect and new-agey self-righteousness, Seven Pounds is by turns clumsy and overbearing.
18 Dec 2008
Exquisite Agony
This holiday season, Mickey Rourke (in The Wrestler) and Will Smith (Seven Pounds) suffer for all us sinners.
18 Dec 2008
Battle in Seattle
Even as various people try to "do their jobs" in Battle in Seattle, they are repeatedly boxed in by lack of information and lack of power.
18 Sep 2008
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