<P>It took a while, but the Hong Kong action movie has now almost completely circumnavigated the globe. The bullets-and-blood baths formula pioneered by John Woo and company in the late '80s and picked up by Quentin Tarantino in the United Stat…
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<P>Kids can't be Michael Jordan, but they can wear his basketball sneakers, and in their fantasies, the sneakers give them the power to be--like Mike. Sports shoes are one of the most powerful totems in kid society, in part because of M.J.'s TV…
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<P>I'm not going to make the mistake of trying to summarize what happens in "This Christmas." If you see it, you'll know what I mean. I'm not even talking about spoilers; I'm talking about all the setups as the Whitfield family gathers for the …
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<P>Ambitious as hell but irreparably flawed, Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood enthralls for half its run, but balances precariously atop an epilogue that can't sustain the picture's dramatic weight. Picture a circus elephant perched o…
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<P>Hilary Duff has a great smile, and she proves it by smiling pretty much all the way through "Raise Your Voice," except when there's a death in the family, or her roommate Denise says something mean to her, or she sees her kind-of boyfriend J…
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Although Stick It does benefit from Jeff Bridges' expectedly superb performance, there's simply no getting around the tremendous amount of cliche and sentiment that's been hard-wired into the proceedings by writer/director Jessica Bendinger. Mi…
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<P>To fashion an endearing romantic comedy, there are only a few simple rules to be followed: find two likeable leads whose chemistry sizzles, provide them with a simple framework that allows them to gradually fall for each other in such a way …
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<P>Barbara Stanwyck and Dennis Morgan star in Christmas in Connecticut (1945), a romantic comedy set during the holidays at wartime. Stanwyck plays Elizabeth Lane, a columnist for "Smart Housekeeping," THE magazine for aspiring homemakers. Ever…
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<P>Very cute and clever love/hate story, set in 1930s Budapest (for some reason), about a pair of store employees who fall in love over a pen pal correspondence, but despise each other in real life. Funny and timeless. Jimmy Stewart is fantasti…
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<P>A cloying mixture of whimsy and sentiment, Around the Bend tries so hard to wring tears that it ultimately leaves you cold. There's not one moment that feels honest or truly heartfelt in this ponderous saga of fathers and sons from first-tim…
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