Picking the single dumbest element in this extremely dumb movie is easy. It’s not the forced cuteness of the forced romance between Morris Chestnut’s (The Cave) shopping mall Santa/wannabe songwriter and Gabrielle Union’s (Running with Sciss…
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<P>Know how a character in one movie can be so terrific, another movie is spun off just to take advantage? That happened with Ma and Pa Kettle, who had small roles in "The Egg and I," which led to their very own series. But enough of today's se…
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While shooting Pretty Persuasion, Thirteen star Evan Rachel Wood was said by the crew to be “a teenage version of Nicole Kidman in To Die For”. And with good reason. A slender, frosty and pathologically ambitious high-schooler who is fully aw…
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<P>"'Til death do us part" rarely works in Hollywood, where screenwriters bring soul mates back as actual souls to haunt the loved ones they've recently departed.</P>
<P>The latest spirit disturbed for the good of a joke is Kate (Eva Longoria…
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<P>"Take the Lead" begins with rudeness, ends with good manners, and argues that poor inner city schools can be redeemed by ballroom dancing. The only thing wrong with this vision, I suspect, is that it works for the ballroom dancers but not fo…
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<P>Woody Allen's "Hannah and Her Sisters," the best movie he has ever made, is organized like an episodic novel, with acute little self-contained vignettes adding up to the big picture.</P>
<P>Each section begins with a title or quotation on …
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<P>Sometimes the hardest movies to review are the ones that are middle-of-the-road, bland and completely uninspiring, movies like "December Boys." </P>
<P>There's nothing wrong with "December Boys," exactly, but there's nothing really right w…
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<P>If Daniel Radcliffe wants to lay the groundwork for a big screen career post-Harry Potter, he should avoid projects like December Boys. Playing one of four orphans (what a stretch, huh?) on seaside holiday, Radcliffe gives a stiff and recess…
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<P>Hard Candy is the kind of uncompromising independent motion picture that is likely to foster ambivalence in a significant portion of its audience. Admittedly, the film doesn't stand up well to a careful postmortem (many psychological thrille…
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<P>"I'm not human," little Dennis says at one point in "Martian Child." So he believes. The lonely orphan has convinced himself that he was not abandoned by his parents, but arrived here from Mars. To protect himself against the sun, he walks a…
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<P>There are some Steve Carell fans out there who believe the gifted comic actor has yet to make a superb feature comedy; they didn't see what the fuss was all about with "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," thought "Little Miss Sunshine" was not much mor…
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<P>In "Liar Liar," Jim Carrey comes back with a likable vengeance. Although his character has moral problems, there's a good person just bursting to come out. He's Fletcher Reede, a chipper, insincere attorney who coaxes his clients into bendin…
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<P>There's something overly familiar about "Guarding Tess." Shirley MacLaine's an obnoxious former First Lady unwillingly saddled with Secret Service protection. Agent Nicolas Cage is the poor chump stuck with watching her. She makes his life h…
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<P>With their woefully unsuccessful animation department floundering, Warner Bros. has pinned its hopes for cartoon greatness on a 50-foot-tall robot from outer space. Lucky for the studio, The Iron Giant is possibly the most completely realize…
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<P>Sometimes you can hear an entire relationship reflected in the intonation of a single word. At the beginning of "Guarding Tess," a man carries a tray upstairs to a closed bedroom door, takes his gun from a holster, places it on a table next …
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