<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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<P>"The Polar Express" has the quality of a lot of lasting children's entertainment: It's a little creepy. Not creepy in an unpleasant way, but in that sneaky, teasing way that lets you know eerie things could happen. There's a deeper, shivery …
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<P>Harmless fodder for the American Idol generation but somewhat mind-numbing for the rest of us, ‘Make it Happen’ follows the fortunes of budding dancer Lauryn as she pursues her lifelong dream to…well, you know the rest. Aiding her on this…
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<P>Kevin Costner's new movie is about a presidential election that literally comes down to one man, one vote. The vote belongs to Bud Johnson, an alcoholic egg inspector from New Mexico, who finds himself the focus of the eyes of the world. Cos…
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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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