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February 2016

February 07, 2016

The Devil Wears Prada (Frankel, 2006) — 10 Years Later

It’s morning in Manhattan and the legion of the city’s models rise. They dress in...

January 2016

January 08, 2016

The Prestige (Nolan, 2006) — 10 Years Later

A lot of movies show people trapped in hell; this one shows them constructing it.

December 2015

December 14, 2015

Kingdom of Heaven (Scott, 2005) — 10 Year Later

"No one has claim. All have claim."

June 2015

June 25, 2015

Munich (Spielberg, 2005) — Ten Years Later

When something deals with religious identity or terrorism or any of the most serious questions...

June 09, 2015

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe ( Adamson, 2005) — Ten Years Later

Do we hold the Narnia films in the same regard as the Lord of the...

April 2015

April 29, 2015

Batman Begins (Nolan, 2005) — Ten Years Later

So the question becomes: how does Batman Begins hold up in a post-Avengers world?

March 2015

March 10, 2015

Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005) — 10 Years Later

Revisiting "Brokeback Mountain" after 10 years feels a bit like an archeological dig. After all,...

March 08, 2015

A History of Violence (Cronenberg, 2005) — Ten Years Later

Well, I feel as though I understand the film a little better than I did...

February 2015

February 08, 2015

Crash (Haggis, 2005) — 10 Years Later

Do you think Crash gets a bad rap--or does the mere mention of the title...

January 2015

January 03, 2015

King Kong (Jackson, 2005) — 10 Years Later

Ten years before Peter Jackson stretched a simple story into three movies, he stretched a...

November 2014

November 20, 2014

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events — 10 Years Later (Silberling, 2004)

If the upcoming Netflix series fails to do justice to the books, it will be...

July 2014

July 23, 2014

Vera Drake (Leigh, 2004) — 10 Years Later

Vera Drake eschews argument, which I would normally say is a good thing, but what...

June 2014

June 18, 2014

Troy (Petersen, 2004) — 10 Years Later: Part III

Think for a moment. How interesting is it that the Iliad is one of the...

June 01, 2014

Troy (Petersen, 2004) — 10 Years Later: Part II

In Part I of this essay, Jeremy Purves looked back at critics' reviews of Troy...

May 2014

May 24, 2014

Troy (Petersen, 2004) — 10 Years Later: Part I

It has now been ten years since Wolfgang Petersen’s old-fashionedly classic film on the Trojan...

May 04, 2014

Fahrenheit 9/11 (Moore, 2004) — Ten Years Later

My complaints are two, and they are both the more frustrating for obscuring the occasional...

March 2014

March 03, 2014

The Incredibles (Bird, 2004) — 10 Years Later

Of all the films I reviewed in 2004, The Incredibles is surely the one I’ve...

January 2014

January 26, 2014

Spider-Man 2 (Raimi, 2004) — 10 Years Later

Pop quiz. Without using Google or some other search engine, identify the movie Roger Ebert...

January 02, 2014

Rosetta and The Wolf of Wall Street

It feels bitterly fitting that I revisited Rosetta the same week that my home town...

December 2013

December 10, 2013

Love Actually (Curtis, 2003) — 10 Years Later

Alas, no. No to all of it. No to it being a holiday film, a...

November 2013

November 17, 2013

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Weir, 2003) — 10 Years Later

That "B" grade looks stingy in retrospect, especially given some of the films I had...

July 2013

July 03, 2013

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Verbinski, 2003) — 10 Years Later

I'll probably never win over the skeptics, and that's okay, but ten years later, Pirates...

March 2013

March 26, 2013

In America (Sheridan, 2003) — 10 Years Later

Between 1989 and 2003, Jim Sheridan was nominated for six Academy Awards. Three were for...

February 2013

February 23, 2013

Finding Nemo (Stanton and Unkrich, 2003) — 10 Years Later

The older and more experienced I get, the more confidence I have in my own...

January 2013

January 05, 2013

The Life of David Gale (Parker, 2003) — 10 Years Later

Film critics get asked what movie they hate the most almost as much as what...

December 2012

December 21, 2012

Signs — 10 Years Later

I imagine that if I had told fans of Signs that ten years after its...

August 2012

August 05, 2012

Punch-Drunk Love (Anderson, 2002) — 10 Years Later

When one thinks of Paul Thomas Anderson, one normally doesn’t think of romantic comedy.

August 04, 2012

Far From Heaven (Haynes, 2002) — 10 Years Later

The quickest and easiest way to annoy a fan of Far From Heaven, I suppose,...

June 2012

June 30, 2012

Road to Perdition (Mendes, 2002) — 10 Years Later

Road to Perdition was not officially Paul Newman's last movie. He did some television work...

May 2012

May 17, 2012

Minority Report (Spielberg, 2002) — 10 Years Later

I listed Minority Report as my #1 film of 2002, and ten years later the...