From the (prolific) output of a largely unfashionable director, Wyler's Wuthering Heights has a distinctive look that elevates it above the blandness Goldwyn productions are so often charged with. Handsomely designed by James Basevi and shot by…
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<P>The problem with "Alfie" -- both Lewis Gilbert's 1966 original and Charles Shyer's new remake -- is that its story, a squooshy redemption fable masquerading as astute character observation, asks the impossible of its lead actor. The differen…
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<P>Melanie is a top-notch senior and aspiring lawyer, who successfully defends the Big Bad Wolf against Three Little Piggy plaintiffs in a mock trial at school. She can't wait for the good-time rite of passage she has truly earned: a girls-only…
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<P>With Step Up 2 the Streets, the supposed-but-not-really sequel to 2006's sleeper Step Up, you get what you pay for. That is to say, there are lots of energetic dance moves, throbbing music that uses every channel of the theater's digital sou…
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<P>The great Shakespeare renaissance of the 1990s is over, killed when the leader of the movement, Kenneth Branagh, was skewered by critics and art-house patrons over his musical adaptation of Love's Labour's Lost. Since then, Branagh has vowed…
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<P>In "Just Like Heaven" Reese Witherspoon plays an ambitious young doctor who has sacrificed her personal life at the altar of Dr. Kildare. She's driving along one night, after having spent some 2,346 straight hours on duty, when -- sacre bleu…
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<P>There are so many appealing performers in "Shall We Dance?" that it's a crime the director, Peter Chelsom, and the screenwriter, Audrey Wells, haven't given them more to do. </P>
<P>In this remake of the 1997 Japanese film of the same name…
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<P>Old Jimmie Langdon, the impresario who taught the young Julia Langdon much of what she knows about the world, refers at one point to "What civilians call the real world." Theater people know better. All the world's a stage, and Julia is but …
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<P>Those who have ventured into the darker corners of addiction know that one of its few consolations, once the fun has worn off, is the camaraderie with fellow practitioners. Substance abuse sets the user apart from the daily lives of ordinary…
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<P>In "A Perfect World," Clint Eastwood plays a legendary Texas Ranger named Red Garnett, but it's hard to tell just how the character came by that legendary status. The year is 1963, and when Red hears that a career criminal named Butch Haynes…
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<P>Adapted from crime novelist Patricia Highsmith's second novel (it followed Strangers on a Train, which Alfred Hitchcock turned into one of his most hauntingly twisted films), Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley is a lushly seductive …
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<P>Director Oliver Parker has not so much adapted Oscar Wilde's comic masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest as he has exploded it. As if fearing to make this farce about the dandies Algernon Moncrief (Rupert Everett) and Jack Worthing (Co…
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<P>Shall We Dance sits on the screen like an unwelcome dinner guest, or a corpulent toad. It's a remake of a mediocre-but-popular Japanese film that jettisons the question mark after "Dance" on its title screen, the inflectionless phrase squatt…
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<P>Thank You for Smoking is the feature debut of Jason (son of Ivan) Reitman, who has assembled an impressive cast. In addition to Aaron Eckhart, who has the lead, the credit list includes the following names: Katie Holmes, Cameron Bright, Sam …
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<P>At first glance, a movie about the adventures of a piglet who thinks he's a sheepdog doesn't appear to be the perfect entertainment recipe for those beyond puberty. However, through a mixture of imaginative storytelling, impressive animatron…
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