<P>This Christmas is enjoyable enough. Though like some holiday fare, it doesn't quite stay with you.<BR>There is a familiar quality to the multi-generational family holiday homecoming that nicely blends drama and comedy. It's a cut above the s…
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<P>Few things irritate me more than unrealized potential in a motion picture, and Chris Columbus' Bicentennial Man is replete with it. The basic idea, about a robot's journey from household appliance to human being, is inherently fascinating, b…
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<P>"Guarding Tess" clearly has "Driving Miss Daisy" in mind, but half an hour into this mildly diverting comedy about the fractious relationship between feisty former First Lady Tess Carlisle (Shirley MacLaine) and exasperated Secret Service ag…
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<P>Like a blip in a genre timeline that extends from "Grass-hoppah" through "wax on, wax off" and Morrie-filled Tuesdays, the sage-elder/wayward-charge saga "Peaceful Warrior" aims for inspirational highs but mostly feels like a self-help book …
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This highly derivative ‘inspirational’ dance pic is Frankensteined together from bits of Coyote Ugly, Flashdance, Step Up and 8 Mile. But it’s also basically Showgirls minus the nudity, as Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s wholesome small-town girl…
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<P>The most inspired element of Mark Palansky's modern-day fairy tale "Penelope" is the vision of Christina Ricci in a prosthetic pig snout. Her character, the Penelope of the title, is a sort-of princess born into an aristocratic family, a bri…
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<P>"A Few Good Men" is a brass-buttoned, square-jawed huzzah for military justice that's thankfully free of the messy moralizing of the Vietnam age. An energetic adaptation of the Broadway play, this riveting court-martial drama looks at the et…
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<P>First, forget about history. Like the original Disney Pocahontas, you need to consider the merits of this movie independent from the real world. If you want to teach children about British colonization of the Americas, pull out an encycloped…
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<P>If you’re as hooked on coverage of the presidential campaign as I am, you’re probably aware of a pernicious new euphemism that’s crept into the political lexicon: low-information voters. As an abuse of the English language, this may not r…
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<P>The sight of Queen Latifah catching computer-generated snowflakes on her tongue while talking into the camera about what makes the perfect holiday nearly pushes "The Perfect Holiday" past the point of redemption.</P>
<P>So does watching Mo…
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<P>In "Martian Child," John Cusack plays David, a recently widowed science-fiction novelist who decides to go through with the plans he and his wife had made before she died and adopt a child. The orphaned kid he ends up with, Dennis (Bobby Col…
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<P>"Calendar Girls" is based on a true story about a Yorkshire women's group that some years ago decided to jazz up its fundraising calendar by posing for it in the semi-nude, their private parts discreetly hidden behind strategically placed fl…
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<P>The tale of Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels is the most improbable of success stories. After having difficulty securing a financial backer, Guy Ritchie's debut feature became one of the biggest home-grown successes in the U.K. last year…
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<P>Shabbily scripted, indifferently directed, and shot with all the grace of an ITV sitcom, Three and Out is an insipid British picture that fails to capitalise on its potentially interesting premise. Making an awkward step into leading man ter…
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<P>I am gradually developing a suspicion, or perhaps it is a fear, that Jim Carrey is growing on me. Am I becoming a fan? In ``Liar Liar'' he works tirelessly, inundating us with manic comic energy. Like the class clown who'll do anything for a…
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