<P>In the case of Peaceful Warrior, Victor Salva's adaptation of Dan Millman's spiritual memoir/autobiographical novel, the underlying message is invaluable: clear the "trash" from your mind and live in moment. But, unfortunately, the movie its…
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<P>A Christmas Story has something no other holiday film - new or old, comedic or serious - can boast: perfect nostalgia. That quality fuels this modern-day classic and has made it one of the season's most beloved motion pictures. One of the Tu…
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<P>If you're only familiar with the Christmas in Connecticut through the awful Arnold Schwarzenegger-directed remake, you owe it to yourself to check out the original, a funny and witty film featuring Barbara Stanwyck in one of her lightest rol…
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<P>Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood" is an austere folly, a picture so ambitious, so filled with filmmaking, that its very scale almost obscures its blankness. The source for Anderson's fifth picture is Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel "O…
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<P>If you've seen one film about a frequently drunken musician with a God-given talent and the social skills of a baboon, you could be forgiven for thinking you've seen them all. Copying Beethoven is really no exception and it plays out its mov…
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<P>Kitschy seventies comedy does battle with some painful dramatics in Ang Lee's highly-regarded The Ice Storm, but the question of which of these wins is still in the air.</P>
<P>It's 1973, and the ual revolution is in full bloom. So are the…
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<P>Well, it's arrived. After four Tyler Perry feature films, we finally have the very first official knockoff with "This Christmas." Of course, with such an honor comes a delicious twist: it's miles ahead of anything Perry could muster.</P>
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<P>In Psycho, Norman Bates said, "A boy's best friend is his mother." Imagine my surprise at discovering the mother/son pair in My Mom's New Boyfriend almost make Norman and his "Mother" seem like upstanding citizens. This is a comedy where mos…
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<P>Tom Hanks as a hobo with cruddy fingernails. A set of train tracks that lead, seemingly, to nowhere. Writhing elves -- throngs of them -- with Dakota Fanning bodies and Karl Malden noses. Beware the creeping horror that is "The Polar Express…
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Since ‘American Pie’, Jason Biggs has been the star of choice for many a US teen comedy in search of hapless hero. While aimed at a slightly older audience, ‘Wedding Daze’ casts him in the usual role, opening with a scene in which his chara…
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One wouldn't have imagined that a film featuring Christina Ricci as a woman cursed with the snout of a pig would rank as one of the most interesting and flat-out entertaining films to play at this year's festival, but there you have it. An unab…
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