<P>Pretty Persuasion opens with more promise than it closes with. It doesn't take long for the cattily satirical tone to become monotonous as the characters refuse all attempts at development and the plot treads water into the shallows. The fil…
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<P>Against extraordinary odds Michael Ian Black’s romantic spoof Wedding Daze drew chuckles from critics at the press screening who will doubtless wake up tomorrow and shriek: “What on earth was I thinking?” </P>
<P>This is American Pie co…
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<P>A good rule when making an animated feature is that it should be able to appeal to three distinct types of audiences: kids, their parents and college students who like to get really baked before going to the movies. "The Iron Giant" is just …
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<P>``Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'' is like Tarantino crossed with the Marx Brothers, if Groucho had been into chopping off fingers. It's a bewilderingly complex caper film, set among the low-lifes of London's East End, and we don't need…
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<P>It seems that every autumn brings another pandering tearjerker to the multiplex. Last year, it was the shameless Pay It Forward; this year it's the slightly better, but no less abashed Life as a House. While the former suggested that everyon…
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<P>Expectations have been high for Calendar Girls, touted as the female version of The Full Monty, but based on a true story. In the American cinematic world, women over 40 rarely exist, except as mothers, and almost never as love interests or …
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<P>You may have read about it at the time. A British women's club, trying to raise money for charity, hit on the idea of having its members pose nude for a pin-up calendar. The women were eminently respectable and of a certain age, the photogra…
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<P>“The Perfect Holiday” stars two tall and striking actors with the perfect onscreen chemistry. One’s a lonely divorced mother of three (Union) whose ex-husband happens to be a successful rap artist by the name of J-Jizzy (Murphy). The othe…
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<P>If you thought Po the panda’s adventures ended with Kung Fu Panda you were wrong. Now a full kung fu master, Po has to face even bigger challenges - like training a group of youngling bunnies and dealing with a mediocre direct to DVD contin…
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<P>What's it all about?<BR>Written and directed by Jessica Bendinger (who wrote Bring It On), Stick It stars newcomer Missy Peregrym as Haley Graham, an ex-gymnast turned rebellious teen and extreme sports nut, who ends up in court after her la…
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Despite the presence of such genuinely talented performers as Colin Hanks, Selma Blair, and Antonio Banderas, My Mom's New Boyfriend essentially comes off as an unmitigated disaster virtually from its opening frames. Filmmaker George Gallo offe…
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<P>"Fight Club" is the most frankly and cheerfully fascist big-star movie since "Death Wish," a celebration of violence in which the heroes write themselves a license to drink, smoke, screw and beat one another up.</P>
<P>Sometimes, for varie…
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<P>How do you make a comedy about killing yourself? More to the point, how do you make one that works? Gershfield and his writers have set themselves a considerable task in trying to get some laughs from a very sensitive subject and create an e…
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<P>Rob Reiner's "A Few Good Men" is one of those movies that tells you what it's going to do, does it, and then tells you what it did.</P>
<P>It doesn't think the audience is very bright. There is a scene that is absolutely wrong. In it, a la…
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<P>With its kinetic style, visceral approach, compelling storyline, and powerful social message, Fight Club makes a commanding case to be considered the '90s version of A Clockwork Orange. In a time when so few motion pictures leave an impact, …
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