<P>The buzz is that Kevin Kline will likely receive an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of George, the protagonist of Irwin Winkler's Life as a House. If it comes to pass, will this be a deserved nomination? Probably not. Kline's performance …
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After the death of beloved brother Paul, Terri (Duff) struggles with the decision to defy her overprotective dad and pursue her spotlight-centered dreams. Terri learns she's been accepted into a "prestigious" performing-arts program on the West…
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<P>There's a pattern here -- every time Americans get really fat and self-satisfied, we start feeling miserable about ourselves. "Fight Club" is at least the third major Hollywood film of the year to hunt for the hidden meanings beneath our aff…
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<P> Like The Full Monty, Calendar Girls features a group of middle-aged individuals stripping off their clothing. Unlike Peter Cattaneo's delightful 1997 flick, this one has trouble finding the right blend of comedy and drama, and the resultant…
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<P>Hilary Duff's squeaky clean agenda, to become preteen America's sweetheart in song and on screen, couldn't be more obvious here. This is for Duff's already committed audiences, which presumably consist of the young, the innocent and the comm…
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<P>It is probable that long before psychoanalytical literary criticism became fashionable, readers of Jane Austen's novels wanted to know how a woman who lived her relatively short life as a spinster could know so much about love, yearning, bet…
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<P>Paul Callow (Crook) is a London Underground driver and aspiring writer. After accidentally running over two people in a matter of weeks, Paul learns from his colleagues that anyone who hits three people within a month gets a massive pay off.…
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<P>In Australia, the height of summer arrives, of course, in December, which is not how "December Boys" gets its name. The title comes because four boys at the height of adolescence all have December birthdays, and so the nuns at their orphanag…
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<P>The entire month of December sometimes seems like one long screwball comedy: lots of running back and forth, too much to do and not enough time to do it, getting drunk with people you really shouldn't get drunk with, like office mates you ba…
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<P>It's not his best, but Hannah and Her Sisters is definitely Woody Allen's second best. The film does everything a Woody film should -- it deals with complex issues in a hilarious way. Up this time, as the title suggests, is the notion of fam…
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<P>When we talk about movie masterpieces, what usually come to mind are epic works that wow us with their scale, pictures that spring from grand ambitions and even grander budgets. But it takes more than ambition, and more than money, to make a…
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<P>For roughly 90 minutes of its 2-hour running time, The Mexican is a moderately enjoyable, albeit feather-light, form of entertainment. Then, as the result of one ill-conceived scene around the three-quarters mark, the film goes as flat as a …
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<P>There are no laughs, and near no entertainment in Michael Ian Black's feeble comedy - Wedding Daze. It is a movie for those who don't care what fills their Friday nights. The movie is so rotten, so lazy and so ineffective - it can only lower…
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<P>Don't think for a minute that "A Few Good Men" is anything other than formula. But this military courtroom drama doesn't follow Hollywood convention. It grabs it by the shirt front and orders it around, with bracing, spit-and-polish performa…
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