<P>Patch Adams tells the story of a dedicated and unconventional doctor who challenged the traditional wisdom of his teachers and peers. An idealistic medical student, Hunter "Patch" Adams (Robin Williams) believed that doctors should treat the…
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<P>"Stick It" uses the story of a gymnast's comeback attempt as a backdrop for overwrought visual effects, music videos, sitcom dialogue and general pandering. The movie seems to fear that if it pauses long enough to actually be about gymnastic…
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<P>This enervated indie (well, studio-financed indie; it's distributed by Warner Bros.' Independent Pictures) asks you 1) to contemplate the notion of Christopher Walken as Michael Caine's son, and 2) to follow a hackneyed road movie in the pic…
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<P>Possibly the worst film ever made, this Z-grade vanity project fails on every level, but it’s the acting that’s most offensive. Repellent teen star Aaron Carter plays a spoiled popster sent to a normal high school, where he hooks up with t…
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<P>Sometimes you can be perfectly aware of everything that's wrong with a movie as you're watching it only to discover, minutes or hours or days later, that the look and the mood of the thing have flooded in and blurred all its flaws. Neil Burg…
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<P>Mamma Mia! delivers exactly what one can reasonably expect from it. It's a faithful adaptation of the stage play of the same name but, more importantly, it's a repository for ABBA songs - nearly two dozen in total. Considering that the avera…
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<P>How many films have there been about victims of violence who turn into avengers? Charles Bronson made five "Death Wish" movies. Kevin Bacon's "Death Sentence" was released two weeks ago. How are we supposed to respond to them? When Bronson's…
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<P>In tales of yore, the goat herder’s son falls in love with the princess and, despite opposition from every quarter, they find a way to be together and (eventually) live happily ever after.</P>
<P>This kind of thing is not possible anymore…
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<P>cIronically, what I was most excited about seeing in Patch Adams is what eventually left me feeling cheated by it in the end. After seeing the trailers, I knew I was going to get Robin Williams playing that lovably sensitive, extremely funny…
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<P>First time director David Slade’s film “Hard Candy” is an impressive and challenging entry into the revenge thriller genre. The film opens by introducing us to Jeff (Patrick Wilson, “The Phantom Of The Opera”), a 30-something photograph…
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<P>IF YOU'RE A constant moviegoer, if you hang in there through all the bad movies, disappointments and blown opportunities, then sooner or later you've got to acknowledge the nobility of actors. I don't think "nobility" is too strong a word to…
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<P>Cancer does terrible things to people, but what it does to movies is pretty awful, too -- particularly when you consider that cancer movies are a purely man-made phenomenon. How long before we get a cure? </P>
<P>Irwin Winkler's uplifting …
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<P>The best things about Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood are not elements that will build large audiences. This is a film about character development/disintegration and a comprehensive look at the early days of the oil industry. The …
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<P>Make It Happen is the next film to arrive out of the recent trend of dance-until-your-dreams-come-true feel-good flicks but interlaced within the subtext is a frighteningly appealing mistruth. </P>
<P>One of the things I find most thrillin…
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<P>They say baseball is popular because everyone thinks they can play it. Similar reasoning may explain the popularity of the Olsen twins: Teenage girls love them because they believe they could be them. What, after all, do Mary-Kate and Ashley…
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