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PopPolitics.com is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Cynthia Fuchs.

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Burn (2012) Cynthia Fuchs As powerful as Burn's images can be, the Detroit firefighters tell their own stories about what's important to them, their neighborhood connections, their family legacies, their pride in their fellows and in their community.
Posted Dec 08, 2012Edit critic review
Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) Cynthia Fuchs Granted, it's not Eleanor Roosevelt's movie, but the focus on F.D.R.'s secret friend, Daisy, and her efforts to comprehend what she takes for greatness, soon looks more quaint than persuasive.
Posted Dec 08, 2012Edit critic review
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (2011) Cynthia Fuchs Resurrect Dead is a consideration of how the material world can intersect with imagined worlds.
Posted Sep 08, 2011Edit critic review
Apocalypto (2006) Cynthia Fuchs Flint Sky tells his son, "Fear is a sickness. It has tainted your peace already... Strike it from your heart." Too late.
Posted Dec 16, 2006Edit critic review
The Libertine (2005) Cynthia Fuchs John Wilmot, the Second Earl of Rochester (Johnny Depp), is always the smartest guy in the room.
Posted Mar 12, 2006Edit critic review
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) Cynthia Fuchs Among the movie's many grim figures, Mel's decaying corpse (badly preserved with anti-freeze) serves as metaphor and reality, an occasion for respect and the limit of legend. %u2014 9 February 2006
Posted Feb 21, 2006Edit critic review
The New World (2005) Cynthia Fuchs The New World is more mundane than Malick's previous films, in part because the myth it takes on remains disturbingly intact.
Posted Dec 23, 2005Edit critic review
Fun With Dick and Jane (2005) Cynthia Fuchs For a comedy with so much politico-cultural baggage on its mind, Dick and Jane remains curiously inert.
Posted Dec 21, 2005Edit critic review
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005) Cynthia Fuchs Jimmy's kids' resentment is noticed only by the keenly attentive Carmen Electra.
Posted Dec 21, 2005Edit critic review
King Kong (2005) Cynthia Fuchs Ann and Kong's romance drives the film. At once sensational and heartrending, it's an intimacy that can't last.
Posted Dec 14, 2005Edit critic review
Bee Season (2005) Cynthia Fuchs Words are mystical, magical, and wholly material in Bee Season.
Posted Nov 17, 2005Edit critic review
XXX (2002) Cynthia Fuchs The money shot in XXX is, like the rest of the film, all about out-Bonding Bond.
Posted Aug 09, 2002Edit critic review
Spider-Man (2002) Cynthia Fuchs Spidey's wrestling with moral questions makes him more sympathetic, not less.
Posted Jul 09, 2002Edit critic review
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