Cynthia Fuchs

Cynthia Fuchs is Director of George Mason University Film & Media Studies Program. She is Film-TV Editor for popmatters.com and film reviewer for Common Sense Media and Philadelphia Citypaper.

Articles by Cynthia Fuchs

AWFJ Women On Film - “Stolen” - Cynthia Fuchs reviews

As Stolen looks at slavery in North Africa, it becomes clear that saying “too much” is costly for Fetim. Read more>>

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AWFJ Women On Film - “Source Code” - Cynthia Fuchs reviews

Colter, like Deckard before him, has to accept who and where he is, even as these definitions recede before him. Read more>>

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AWFJ Women On Film - “Pushing the Elephant” - Cynthia Fuchs reviews

As ambassador for the humanitarian organization, Mapendo International, Rose Mapendo tells her story again and again, encouraging her listeners to draw lessons from it. Read more>>

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AWFJ Women On Film - “Triangle: Remembering the Fire” - Cynthia Fuchs reviews

As the film makes clear, the story of the Triangle Fire is actually many stories, fragmented, frightening, and heroic. Read more>>

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AWFJ Women On Film - “The Town” - Review by Cynthia Fuchs

A single, lingering, low-angle close-up of Pete Postlethwaite’s face goes a long way toward making any movie at least a little compelling. Read more>>

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AWFJ Women On Film - “Waiting for ‘Superman’” - Review by Cynthia Fuchs

The young students’ stories are surely Waiting for ‘Superman’’s most effective strategy, but it’s hard not to wonder at how they are being used in such a slick enterprise. Read more>>

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AWFJ Women On Film - “The Social Network” - Review by Cynthia Fuchs

The possible “openness” of Facebook here hinges on the definitive closed system embodied by this fictional Mark Zuckerberg. Read more>>

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AWFJ Women On Film - “Teenage Paparazzo” - Review by Cynthia Fuchs

Teenage Paparazzo establishes at least a couple of foci, namely, Adrian Grenier’s relationship with the picture-snapping press and his relationship with that relationship, as he portrays it on TV. Read more>>

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AWFJ Women on Film - “Freakonomics” - Review by Cynthia Fuchs

Freakonomics’ four sections offer various takes on the source book’s premise: what happens when you ask “a different kind of question entirely?” Read more>>

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AWFJ Women On Film - “Marwencol” - Review by Cynthia Fuchs

Marwencol shows a process of self-imagining and storytelling that reflects the intricate ways that we all understand ourselves, the worlds inside and around us. Read more>>

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