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CYNTHIA FUCHS
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• Common Sense
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• Philadelphia City Paper
• PopMatters
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Total Reviews: 1994
Total QuickRatings: 1

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Rotten What Happens in Vegas
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

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"Joy and Jack are fated to fall in lazy-movie-love." -- PopMatters
Posted May 9, 2008
 
What Happens in Vegas (2008)29%
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"Speed is a driver but he's so much more, embodying the opposite of the film's anti-corporate argument. He's the Matrix victorious." -- PopMatters
Posted May 9, 2008
 
Speed Racer (2008)34%
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"In David Mamet's universe, the fight is always the issue." -- PopMatters
Posted May 9, 2008
 
Redbelt (2008)71%
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"If she lived in another movie, you'd almost feel sorry for Hannah (Michelle Monaghan). But she's trapped in the execrable Made of Honor, which insists that she behave nearly as inanely as her two suitors." -- PopMatters
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Made of Honor (2008)12%
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"Errol Morris' smart new documentary remembers the Abu Ghraib pictures' effects -- the shock, the outrage, and the anger that greeted their release." -- PopMatters
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Standard Operating Procedure (2008)78%
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"For all Tony's new understanding of "peace," the fact that Iron Man is in fact a weapon allows the film to do what summer movies must do: clanking and bashing, zooming, shooting, and exploding." -- PopMatters
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Iron Man (2008)93%
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"Spurlock goes home in time for his son's birth, but if there's an end of violence and distrust possible in the Middle East, it is not yet visible." -- PopMatters
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)36%
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"CJ7 acknowledges the clichés, sometimes embracing and sometimes satirizing the conventional depictions of kids and adults in family films." -- PopMatters
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
CJ7 (2008)45%
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"While the scene announces the film's intensive focus on water -- a sign of transition, loss and rebirth -- it is also a sign of its stylized poetry, sometimes lovely, sometimes precious." -- PopMatters
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
Jellyfish (2008)82%
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"Diana pays for her bad choices perpetually, in large part through her self-comparisons to M, whose piety she alternately teases and reveres." -- PopMatters
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
The Life Before Her Eyes (2008)22%
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"Less sensuous than the pie à la mode, more nuanced than the doors opening and closing, cutting the cards might not change any odds, but it does offer an illusion of choice." -- PopMatters
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
My Blueberry Nights (2008)49%
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"Even with the race dynamics not very scrambled, David Ayer's latest film looks a lot like Training Day." -- PopMatters
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
Street Kings (2008)33%
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"Will Lawrence, at long last, be nice to someone who needs it? "I do have hope for myself," he declares. Good for him." -- PopMatters
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
Smart People (2008)49%
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"Their "specialness" is the hook by which the film extols their representativeness." -- PopMatters
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
Young@Heart (2008)87%
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"The movie is grounded in a fundamental difficulty, that Walter's education is achieved by his engagement with this set of brown and black people." -- PopMatters
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
The Visitor (2008)92%
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"Detective Russo is bored with the story John tells her as soon as she hears it. And so, you feel instantly aligned with her, again, long steps ahead of all the shenanigans." -- PopMatters
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
Deception (2008)12%
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"The boys' throwdown reveals nothing. Neither man comprehends the lunacy of the plot, however, leaving that tiresome deciphering to you." -- PopMatters
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
88 Minutes (2008)6%
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"The formula dictates that Sarah and Rachel are props along the road to Peter's discovery of "true love."" -- PopMatters
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)84%
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"Jason's relationship with Golden Sparrow stays pretty locked in first gear, such that the movie might attend to kung fu%u2014sort of." -- PopMatters
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)62%
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"Pashu straddles a particular and complicated divide in Without the King, Michael Skolnik's intriguing documentary about the last kingdom in Africa." -- PopMatters
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
Without the King (2007)93%
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"A simultaneously broad-brush and acute critique of U.S. policy regarding detainees gives way almost immediately to the escape, inadvertent and slapdash as everything is in the (apparent) franchise." -- PopMatters
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)56%
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"If he's not precisely magical, Oscar the doorman does function as wise advisor for white women who should know better." -- PopMatters
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
Baby Mama (2008)60%
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"Buddy Guy makes his guest appearance his own, and for an all too brief couple of minutes, carries the movie off to some other dimension." -- PopMatters
Posted Apr 9, 2008
 
Shine a Light (2008)86%
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"Specialist Crystal Davis' story reflects many stories, her life changed forever, her efforts to meet all kinds of unanticipated challenges." -- PopMatters
Posted Apr 9, 2008
 
Fighting for Life (2008)87%
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""You go to a parade, you got to a demo," says Bobby Muller, "Standard routine: you put the gimps on the front. You gotta have the visual."" -- PopMatters
Posted Apr 9, 2008
 
Body of War (2008)72%
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"The tourists' fears have infected their very beings, and their decisions are increasingly ineffective precisely because they are based on fear and ignorance." -- PopMatters
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 
The Ruins (2008)42%
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"Racist fantasy is never a good start for a children's film, or any film, for that matter." -- PopMatters
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 
Nim's Island (2008)48%
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"Pleasant and clever, Leatherheads is not built for surprises." -- PopMatters
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 
Leatherheads (2008)53%
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"Though none of the boys, now young men, talks about it, they all bear burdens of rejection and rage." -- PopMatters
Posted Mar 31, 2008
 
Shotgun Stories (2007)87%
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"As Ben must learn a lesson, the movie must demonize Micky, whose slick meanness becomes increasingly visible." -- PopMatters
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
21 (2008)31%
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"In Rico especially, and in Brandon's confrontations with his own delusions, the movie focuses on the unhealthy rituals of manhood and male community encouraged by the military" -- PopMatters
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
Stop-Loss (2008)65%
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""I hate the movies. They're phony, so goddamned phony." Poor Mark David Chapman: no matter how many times he rejects the world of celebrity and phoniness, he's dragged back inside." -- PopMatters
Posted Mar 27, 2008
 
Chapter 27 (2008)21%
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"Music -- as a general concept and in the daily details of rock camp -- occasions this ideal state, connected and creative." -- PopMatters
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
Girls Rock! (2008)76%
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"t probably goes without saying that the self-involved, privileged Sydney would pay scant attention to the violence and poverty that make up life in Ana's pueblo." -- PopMatters
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
The Eye (2008)21%
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"Even if you take the film's moral lesson at face value, the overkill is discouraging, and not very instructive." -- PopMatters
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
Untraceable (2008)15%
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"In this allegory, you understand, times change and troubles stay the same." -- PopMatters
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
Honeydripper (2007)67%
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"It's hard not to think of the many other protestors, detainees, and U.S. citizens whose rights are being stifled as we speak." -- PopMatters
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
Chicago 10 (2008)77%
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"As it articulates the families' trauma and distress, the film also shows the layers of context that have produced their frustrations." -- PopMatters
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
Shoot Down (2008)n/a
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"Though Kevin shows early signs of bucking formula, he is, in fact, the precise embodiment of same." -- PopMatters
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
27 Dresses (2008)39%
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"Richard's version is exceptionally insidious, which makes Married Life at once fascinating and unsurprising." -- PopMatters
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
Married Life (2008)55%
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"However you parse the character's evolution, Rambo the film shows a peculiar understanding of changes in the industry." -- PopMatters
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
Rambo (2008)33%
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"For all its popularity, self-documentation's purpose and meaning remain elusive." -- PopMatters
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
Cloverfield (2008)77%
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"Perhaps the band members have seen the movies she so loves, and in her eyes, imagine themselves as next generational approximations of Omar Sharif." -- PopMatters
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
The Band's Visit (2007)98%
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"The film establishes a complex, compressed moral universe, in which choices are severely limited." -- PopMatters
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
The Counterfeiters (2008)94%
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"But for all the showy action and spurty blood, it's the evolving intimacy between Ken and Ray that is most compelling in In Bruges." -- PopMatters
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
In Bruges (2008)78%
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"The movie assumes you know all this already and shows it to you anyway." -- PopMatters
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
Funny Games (2008)49%
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"All this said, there's a not bad movie inside of Welcome Home, visible in the quiet center provided by Margaret Avery." -- PopMatters
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)25%
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"The process of Sweding soon becomes a community project, another glance back and ahead at the same time." -- PopMatters
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
Be Kind Rewind (2008)65%
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"It's not a little obvious that the Step Up franchise means to keep a Disneyfied hand in the apparently inexorable dance movie cycle." -- PopMatters
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
Step Up 2 the Streets (2008)27%
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"Fool's Gold is pretty much bereft of bright spots." -- PopMatters
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
Fool's Gold (2008)10%

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