Cynthia Fuchs

Pop Matters

Cynthia Fuchs is director of Film & Media Studies, as well as Associate Professor of English and Film & Video Studies, at George Mason University. She has published numerous articles on popular media, edited Spike Lee: Interviews (University of Mississippi Press 2002), and co-edited Iraq War Cultures (Peter Lang 2009). She is Film-TV editor at PopMatters and film reviewer at Philadelphia Citypaper and Time to Play Magazine.

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Best of the Decade Critics Survey 2000s »

Best of the Decade »

1) Iraq in Fragments

2) City of God

3) In the Mood for Love

4) The Fog of War

5) Caché

6) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

7) Grizzly Man

8) My Winnipeg

9) Zodiac

10) When the Levees Broke

Annual Critics Survey 2009 »

Best Film »

1) 24 City

2) 35 Shots of Rum

3) Treeless Mountain

4) The Hurt Locker

5) The Headless Woman

6) The Beaches of Agnes

7) Sugar

8) Lorna's Silence

9) Of Time and the City

10) Police, Adjective

Best Lead Performance »

1) Alex Descas, 35 Shots of Rum

2) Maria Onetto, The Headless Woman

3) Arta Dobroshi, Lorna's Silence

4) Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker

5) Tilda Swinton, Julia

Best Supporting Performance »

1) Samantha Morton, The Messenger

2) Jérémie Renier, Lorna's Silence

3) Mati Diop, 35 Shots of Rum

4) Vlad Ivanov, Police, Adjective

5) Anthony Mackie, The Hurt Locker

Best Director »

1) Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker

Best Documentary »

1) Oblivion

Best Screenplay »

1) Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck, Sugar

Best First Feature »

1) Barry Jenkins, Medicine for Melancholy

Best Undistributed Film »

1) Back Home, Tomorrow

2) October Country

3) How To Fold a Flag

Films

500 Days of Summer B

A Serious Man B

A Single Man B

Act of God B+ (Review)

Amelia C (Review)

An Education B+ (Review)

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans B+

Beeswax A- (Review)

Before Tomorrow A-

Brothers B- (Review)

Capitalism: A Love Story B

Cheri D+ (Review)

Coco Before Chanel C- (Review)

Cold Souls B (Review)

Creation C-

Daybreakers C+ (Review)

Drag Me to Hell B (Review)

Everybody’s Fine F (Review)

Fantastic Mr. Fox A-

Fish Tank B (Review)

Food, Inc. B (Review)

Garbage Dreams A- (Review)

Good Hair B

Goodbye Solo A- (Review)

Humpday A- (Review)

In the Loop B-

Inglourious Basterds B (Review)

Invictus C- (Review)

Julia B+ (Review)

La Danse A (Review)

Lymelife C (Review)

Moon A- (Review)

Nine D

October Country A (Review)

Outrage B+ (Review)

Paranormal Activity C (Review)

Pirate Radio (aka The Boat That Rocked) C- (Review)

Police, Adjective A

Ponyo B+ (Review)

Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” By Sapphire B (Review)

Ricky A- (Review)

Sweetgrass A (Review)

Taking Woodstock C (Review)

The Beaches of Agnès (Les Plages d’Agnès) A (Review)

The Box B

The Brothers Bloom C- (Review)

The Cove B+ (Review)

The Damned United B (Review)

The Hurt Locker A- (Review)

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus B-

The Invention of Lying C- (Review)

The Limits of Control A- (Review)

The Lovely Bones C- (Review)

The Maid (La nana) A (Review)

The Men Who Stare at Goats B- (Review)

The Messenger A-

The Most Dangerous Man In America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers B+ (Review)

The Road B

The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band) B+

The Young Victoria C-

Thirst (Bakjwi) B+ (Review)

Treeless Mountain A (Review)

Up in the Air B

We Live in Public B+ (Review)

Whatever Works D- (Review)

Where the Wild Things Are A- (Review)

Whip It B- (Review)

World’s Greatest Dad F (Review)

Youth in Revolt B (Review)
Recent criticWIRE Ratings
D
Lebanon
Danny Kasman, The Auteurs
A
Les Herbes folles
Danny Kasman, The Auteurs
D+
No One Knows about Persian Cats
Danny Kasman, The Auteurs
B
George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead
Danny Kasman, The Auteurs
B+
Vincere
Danny Kasman, The Auteurs
B
Mother
Danny Kasman, The Auteurs
B-
The Exploding Girl
Danny Kasman, The Auteurs
C
Green Zone
Danny Kasman, The Auteurs
C+
Shutter Island
Danny Kasman, The Auteurs
C
Greenberg
Danny Kasman, The Auteurs
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