<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>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>Spoiled Californian teenager Poppy (Roberts) has annoyed her father for the last time. Wanting to teach his designer label-obsessed daughter some discipline and responsibility, he sends her to a posh private school in England. At first Poppy…
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<P>Having one passenger fall under his train makes distracted driver Paul Callow (Mackenzie Crook) look unfortunate, but by the second accident in under a month he starts to appear distinctly careless. Paul is played by the fish-eyed, sad-sack…
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<P>Motion pictures are an illusion. They aren't really made of moving images at all, just a series of stills projected at 24 frames per second. The motion is a trick created with the help of shutters, lenses, a little sprocket device known as t…
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<P>The perennial classic at our house.</P>
<P><BR>I think I first saw this story in Fourth grade. I identified with it. I've seen it every year since then; I still identify.</P>
<P>Ralphie is in a quandry. More than anything else in the wor…
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<P>Making an enjoyable family Christmas comedy must be one of the most difficult things to accomplish in Hollywood, because the late-year presence of a good one in multiplexes is more rare than a White Christmas in New York City. Fred Claus, wh…
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<P>Steve Carell of "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" has a personality, or maybe it is a lack of personality, that is growing on me. He is content to exist on the screen without sending wild semaphores of his intentions, his uniqueness and how funny he …
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<P>After being treated to full-throttle performances of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and his late string quartets, you may walk out of "Copying Beethoven" humming the movie. But that's not the same as singing its praises. </P>
<P>A s…
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<P>Now that the Christmas movie season has been taken over by big-budget prestige pictures and elephantine dazzlers designed to sweep in massive crowds, there's almost no such thing as an entertaining holiday trifle anymore -- the kind of casua…
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<P>Given the typical movie franchise ‘arc of success’ that has been Shrek, Shrek the Halls is pretty much exactly what you’d expect – a throw-away piece of fluff with a seasonal hook to ensure it’s gobbled up by Shrek fans regardless of wh…
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<P>Evidently, as things like yoga, alternative medicine, and meditation become more accepted by the mainstream, it creates a market of films for the new-agey niche. And that is likely just the audience for Peaceful Warrior, a feel-good, anythin…
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<P>The Ice Storm'' takes place as an early winter storm descends on Connecticut, casting over Thanksgiving a shroud of impending doom. In a wooded suburb, affluent adults stir restlessly in their split-level homes, depressed not only by their l…
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<P>There is a star in My Sassy Girl–and it’s not Jesse Bradford, who handles the leading romantic comedy man role effortless–it’s cinematographer Eric Schmidt, who makes New York City vibrant. There’s a lot of good in Yann Samuell’s direc…
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<P>It's Dangerous Minds with dancing. That's the sinking feeling I got while watching Take the Lead, one of the year's most uninspired inspirational stories. Culled from the real-life experiences of Pierre Dulaine (Banderas), Take the Lead warp…
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