The film which lifted Columbia Studios into the big league by winning five Academy Awards and putting Capra's future output among the biggest box-office successes of the '30s. Gable plays a ruthless reporter who adopts a fugitive heiress making…
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<P>"Chicago" continues the reinvention of the musical that started with "Moulin Rouge." Although modern audiences don't like to see stories interrupted by songs, apparently they like songs interrupted by stories. The movie is a dazzling song an…
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<P>The chief problem with "Thank You for Smoking," first-time director Jason Reitman's adaptation of Christopher Buckley's satirical novel, isn't that it's over the top; it's that it fits so neatly under the top. Aaron Eckhart plays Nick Naylor…
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<P>Be careful what you ask for; you might get it. Two weeks ago I deplored the lack of wit in "Star Wars: Episode II--Attack of the Clones," which has not one line of quotable dialogue. Now here is "The Importance of Being Earnest," so thick wi…
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<P>Lately, it seems every time I review a Rob Reiner movie, I lament the fall this once reliable filmmaker has taken. Admittedly, Reiner started at such a pinnacle that there was nowhere to go but down, but it's beyond consideration that the di…
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"Are you not entertained?" charismatic Russell Crowe roars scornfully to the cheering crowd in the Roman Colosseum. Certainly there hasn't been this kind of awesome sword-and-sandals spectacle since "Spartacus," "Ben-Hur" and "Cleopatra." Set i…
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<P>Once upon a time, a Broadway musical like Chicago would have automatically received a silver screen treatment ?but that was before the popularity of the movie musical crashed and burned. Nevertheless, the enthusiasm surrounding the 1996 revi…
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<P>`A Little Princess" is another magical family film based on a book by Frances Hodgson Burnett, whose work also inspired "The Secret Garden." Both films approach the characters of her children with calm solemnity and delight, placing them in …
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<P>"Definitely, Maybe" is the new romantic comedy from the producers of "Notting Hill" and "Love, Actually." This explains why it's the most melancholy romantic comedy since "Notting Hill" and "Love, Actually." </P>
<P>At a sleepover at her d…
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<P>Faces -- interesting ones, attractive ones, expressive ones -- have always been a major part of what draws us to the movies, and it's clear that the big selling point of "Made of Honor" is the raffishly semishaved mug of Patrick Dempsey. Dem…
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<P>Lost in Translation marks Sofia Coppola's second directorial effort, following The Virgin Suicides, and it's just about on par with that film. The two movies share a dreamy quality and relaxed pace that you're either going to love or hate; w…
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<P>The boy was 3 when he first sat on the Dragon Throne as emperor of China, and 7 when he abdicated. He had barely reached what in the West is considered the age of reason, and already events beyond his control had shaped his life forever. Ber…
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Given the extent to which Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End relentlessly spins its wheels throughout its ridiculously and oppressively overlong running time, there's ultimately little doubt that this bloated trilogy would've fared far be…
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<P>Low, gray clouds scud across the sky while the grass of a seemingly-endless plain ripples in response to the prompting of a spring breeze. Thunder rumbles in the distance. On another day, a bright sun gazes down on those same fields while ca…
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<P>The movie tags at the heels of Edinburgh social dropouts Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie, for whom getting off beats getting out. After all, there's nothing outside their dingy flats but a dead economy, English imperialism and that nebulou…
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