<P>Give it up, Hollywood, the mouse is gonna rule this summer. "Hercules" is a sharp and funny animated flick with just enough sentiment to satisfy Disney protocol. The animation is primo, the characters dynamite, and the music's the best since…
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<P>Wayne Wang's "Last Holiday" is a movie lost in time and space, and not just because it's a remake of a 1950 Alec Guinness picture. Queen Latifah plays Georgia Byrd, a shy New Orleans department store clerk and skilled amateur cook who, after…
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<P>Set in Tokyo, Sofia Coppola's second feature, Lost in Translation, stars Bill Murray as Bob Harris, a fading Hollywood star who has arrived in Japan to make a very lucrative whiskey commercial. Filled with career angst and concerns about his…
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<P>Next to Independence Day, Trainspotting may be the most hyped motion picture of the summer. Miramax Films, the distributor that saturated the market with ads for The Crying Game in 1992- 93 and Pulp Fiction in '94, has struck again. Trainspo…
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<P>No adaptation of an Oscar Wilde play should go wrong when it stars Rupert Everett: He simply gets Wilde in his bones, without being hamstrung by an urge to somehow freshen the material or make it feel more "modern." He was bliss to watch in …
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<P>Upon cursory examination, A Perfect World may seem like a buddy movie crossed with a road picture, but the film's surprising emotional depth transcends that which is normally found in either genre. In fact, what starts out like a good old Cl…
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<P>Richard Gere plays John Clark, not an unhappy man, in "Shall We Dance?" He loves his wife and daughter, he enjoys his job as a lawyer, and when his wife gets that funny look in her eye and asks him if everything is OK, he says sure, of cours…
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<P>Drew Barrymore in Never Been Kissed? Improbable as it sounds, the effervescent young movie veteran defies expectations and gives her all to the role of a nerdy teenager turned nerdy adult in this genial comedy about the nightmare side of hig…
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<P>"Must Love Dogs" is like a puppy with big brown eyes and a wagging tail who weeps with eagerness to lick your hand, but you take a look around the pound and decide to adopt the sad-eyed beagle who looks as if she has seen a thing or two. In …
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<P>Gladiator is the kind of movie upon which Hollywood once built its reputation but rarely produces anymore: the spectacle. Filled with larger-than-life characters, gorgeous scenery, impressive set design, and epic storytelling, Gladiator is d…
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<P>Shall We Dance? is a remake of the 1997 Japanese feature by the same name. Penned and directed by Masayuki Suo, that film was an unexpected pleasure - a feel-good feature that wasn't weighed down by the unnecessarily cloying melodrama and ma…
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<P>Like something from out of the past itself, Somewhere in Time is an old-fashioned romance that came out at a time when such movies were no longer being made. Missing an audience at the time of its release, both commercially and critically, …
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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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