<P>"Last Holiday" is a movie that takes advantage of the great good nature and warmth of Queen Latifah, and uses it to transform a creaky old formula into a comedy that is just plain lovable. To describe the plot is to miss the point, because t…
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<P>William Wyler was not just one of the most important directors in American movie history; he was at various times the most controversial as well. His notoriety did not have the contemporary ingredients of or politics. Rather, there were rag…
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<P>Daniela Denby-Ashe plays Margaret Hale who is a gentleman’s daughter from southern England. Her father makes an independent decision to change his career path and abruptly moves the family to the northern industrial town of Milton. They pac…
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<P>Nothing says Christmas like the Christmas cancer movie, but perhaps because sturdy American values have been in decline for a while now, several years have passed since we've had one. The wait is over: Rob Reiner's "The Bucket List," in whic…
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<P>A delightfully enchanting family fantasy, "A Little Princess" has all the earmarks of a classic, and one can only hope it doesn't get blown out of the water by the big-budget blockbusters it is going up against.The basis is the same children…
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<P>There's a certain sameness to all Adam Sandler movies. They're comedies, but the filmmakers employ a lame dramatic underpinning with a twofold purpose: to make the characters more likable and better rounded, and to give us the sense that we'…
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<P>In spite of an awkward title and an uninspired choice for the leading man, Definitely, Maybe nevertheless manages to charm with its bittersweet story of love and loss that ends on an upbeat and romantic note. The movie starts out as one thin…
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<P>Kids are wonderful little beings, inheritors of the earth and all that. But let's face it: They're infesting the movies. Obsessed with securing family audiences, Hollywood is rigging its plots with kids who tag along with Terminators, Action…
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<P>Seabiscuit was a small horse with a lazy side. Sleeping and eating were his favorite occupations early in life, and he wasn't particularly well-behaved. That was before he met three men who would shape him into the best-loved sports legend o…
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<P>This Christmas is enjoyable enough. Though like some holiday fare, it doesn't quite stay with you.<BR>There is a familiar quality to the multi-generational family holiday homecoming that nicely blends drama and comedy. It's a cut above the s…
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<P>Few things irritate me more than unrealized potential in a motion picture, and Chris Columbus' Bicentennial Man is replete with it. The basic idea, about a robot's journey from household appliance to human being, is inherently fascinating, b…
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<P>"Guarding Tess" clearly has "Driving Miss Daisy" in mind, but half an hour into this mildly diverting comedy about the fractious relationship between feisty former First Lady Tess Carlisle (Shirley MacLaine) and exasperated Secret Service ag…
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<P>Like a blip in a genre timeline that extends from "Grass-hoppah" through "wax on, wax off" and Morrie-filled Tuesdays, the sage-elder/wayward-charge saga "Peaceful Warrior" aims for inspirational highs but mostly feels like a self-help book …
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This highly derivative ‘inspirational’ dance pic is Frankensteined together from bits of Coyote Ugly, Flashdance, Step Up and 8 Mile. But it’s also basically Showgirls minus the nudity, as Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s wholesome small-town girl…
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<P>The most inspired element of Mark Palansky's modern-day fairy tale "Penelope" is the vision of Christina Ricci in a prosthetic pig snout. Her character, the Penelope of the title, is a sort-of princess born into an aristocratic family, a bri…
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