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What the critics won't tell you about 'Matrix: Revolutions'
Friday November 07, 2003 by Cynthia Grenier -- "The Matrix: Revolutions" opened Wednesday in a first-ever worldwide debut on 10,013 screens in more than 94 countries and in 43 languages, including Hungarian and Turkish, and has already pulled in over $43 million. Needless to say, the film – the third and final in th ...

In defense of Mel Gibson
Friday August 29, 2003 by Cynthia Grenier -- Nominally, we are supposed to be this Christian country, although even a glancing look over some of the media's recent treatment of religious themes in popular culture does make you wonder. Right now, Mel Gibson's getting it in the neck for, as Time Magazine of Sept. 1 refers to i ...

Worse than Potter: Can it be?
Saturday June 28, 2003 by Cynthia Grenier -- The arrival of the new Harry Potter book certainly seems to have gotten a lot of folks all heated up, leaving aside the record-breaking millions who have bought it. But these protesting people who are largely Christian, churchgoing parents (so it seems from the heated e-mails to W ...

Capturing the culture
Friday June 13, 2003 by Cynthia Grenier -- Going on 70 years now, a sometime Italian theater critic named Antonio Gramsci wrote in one of Mussolini's jail cells of the importance of the left to capture the culture, then the road, he predicted, would be open to capturing the state. Since the '60s, inroads have certainl ...

Leonardo DiCaprio's quest for daddy at Christmas
Saturday December 21, 2002 by Cynthia Grenier -- You can't deny Martin Scorsese is a director of great ambition. In "Gangs of New York," opening nationwide today, he wants to show how the New York of today grew out of the violent, corrupt, racist society of yesterday. He has always proclaimed his passion for the city where he wa ...

'The Two Towers'
Friday December 20, 2002 by Cynthia Grenier -- How curiously topical the second part – "The Two Towers" – of the hugely successful "Lord of the Rings" of J.R.R. Tolkien brought to the screen by Peter Jackson turns out to be. Not merely topical, but noble and brave in the best sense. The film recently opened in over ...

'Evelyn': Just in time for Christmas
Saturday December 14, 2002 by Cynthia Grenier -- Here at last we have a movie for the Christmas season that is genuinely a family film, a heartwarming work with a strong sense of morality and justice. "Evelyn" surprisingly not only stars Mr. James Bond – Pierce Brosnan – it is produced by him, as well. Bruce Ber ...

You watchin' me?
Saturday December 07, 2002 by Cynthia Grenier -- So, some spoilsports are muttering that this second go-around – "Analyze That" – of a neurotic mobster (Robert DeNiro) and his very nervous shrink (Billy Crystal) doesn't measure up to the fun and frolic of the first, "Analyze This." Audience reaction isn't eve ...

'Solaris' beams me down
Saturday November 30, 2002 by Cynthia Grenier -- What is it with film distributors? Here we were on the eve of Thanksgiving with every family in the land geared for a fun-and-games flick following consumption of the holiday bird. You know, everyone is geared up for the likes of James Bond or Harry Potter, but for a rain-drenched ...

Bond is back: Somebody, please shake or stir
Monday November 25, 2002 by Cynthia Grenier -- Thank God for Pierce Brosnan. He brings the right touch of irony and physical prowess – certainly looks great for a fellow hitting his 50th birthday – even in the face of two nigh onto interminable hours of increasingly implausible action in the big new James Bond film, ...

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Cynthia Grenier, an international film and theater critic, is the former Life editor of the Washington Times and acted as senior editor at The World & I, a national monthly magazine, for six years.

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