<P>At last the full arc is visible, and the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy comes into final focus. I admire it more as a whole than in its parts. The second film was inconclusive, and lost its way in the midst of spectacle. But "Return of the King…
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<P>An operatic tale of high school football, racial integration and young men's passions, "Remember the Titans" is a Hollywood movie Sen. Joseph Lieberman could love (and probably will). Taken on its own terms, it's an agreeable entertainment, …
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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>With its fifth cinematic outing, the Harry Potter film series has ascended to another level. In addition to providing a self-contained, well-paced adventure, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix also begins to coalesce the epic ether th…
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<P>Not a lot is known about 17th-century painter Johannes Vermeer, except that he died in early middle age, leaving 11 surviving children and 35 paintings that have survived into the 21st century. One of those paintings, "Girl with a Pearl Earr…
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<P> Just in time for Valentine's Day, "50 First Dates" is a spin on the "Groundhog Day" notion of a day that keeps repeating itself. This time, though, the recycling takes place entirely inside the mind of Lucy Whitmore (Drew Barrymore), who wa…
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<P>Kung Fu Panda adopts a different, less zany tone than one might expect from a movie with that title, especially considering that Jack Black has been brought on board to provide the lead voice. While it would be unfair to say that the movie d…
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<P>According to the calendar, Christmas is December 25. According to the movie release schedule, it's December 17. There can be no greater gift for a movie lover than the one bestowed upon audiences by Peter Jackson, whose The Lord of the Rings…
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<P>Refreshingly unpretentious if calculatedly impolitic, Thank You for Smoking is the rare film that stays within itself, mocking its obvious targets with the cool insouciance of mentholated tobacco. Writer and director Jason Reitman evinces su…
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<P>Based on a 1975 Isaac Asimov short story by the same name and a novel he co-authored with Robert Silverberg entitled The Positronic Man, Bicentennial Man has an interesting premise that's unfortunately Chris Columbus-ized, meaning whatever t…
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<P>A "family movie" is often loosely defined as a motion picture that, aimed at children, is likely to bore parents to tears. Numerous examples leap to mind, most of them from Walt Disney Studios, a production company that holds the curious dis…
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<P>While Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer is, above all, a cowboy film for grown-ups, this spectacularly acted and photographed epic offers plenty of mainstream fodder for a broad swath of filmgoers to enjoy. It's the Walter Farley children…
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<P>Big Daddy proves that Adam Sandler wrote the 'Acting Made Easy' book. Sandler, who glides through yet another role with high quotients of ease and likeability, almost makes sitting through this often funny but wholly uninspired comedy pain-f…
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<P>Seabiscuit is the great hope of the adult movie-going audience: a summer motion picture that is not designed to appeal to teenage boys. Ordinarily, one might think it would be a risk on Universal's part to release the movie in late July, but…
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<P>Aghast is the word. It’s not a word that should be applicable to anything Seussical. But this is what I felt as I stumbled from my Saturday morning screening of Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! and immediately hied myself to a bookstore to p…
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