<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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<P>Bubblegum princess Hilary Duff’s fleeting film career has reached the unpleasant stage where the wad of chew we’re being offered has grown rubbery and flavorless. Our jaws ache just thinking about gnawing on a lump of sugar this size. What…
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摇滚年代英文影评 Rock of Ages So seductive he almost seduces himself
"Rock of Ages," a rags-to-riches rock'n' roll musical set in mostly in a music club on Sunset Strip, wins no prizes for originality. A lot of it is zesty entertainment, with…
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<P>The generic mediocrity known as DreamWorks' animation department is about eight steps behind the multilayered brilliance of Pixar, and with Kung Fu Panda I think they finally reveal how sore they are about it. Their latest cinematic effort s…
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<P>When twenty-nine year old Emily Bront?realized the publication of her gothic novel 'Wuthering Heights' in 1847 she had no way of knowing that her characters, the tragic lovers Heathcliff and Catherine, would translate so magically to the sil…
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<P>Suspicions that there may be a real actor lurking in "Saturday Night Live"'s Bill Murray first surfaced a decade ago in Groundhog Day, a quirky antic in which he was doomed to reliving the same 24 hours time and again (three times during the…
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<P>Some movies are too much of a good thing; others are too much of a bad thing. And some, like "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," are too much of nothing -- very expensive nothing. </P>
<P>The third and (please God) final entry in t…
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<P>Step Up 2 The Streets (* * out of four) is all about impressing us with its fancy footwork. But the dance scenes feel like a diversion, since the story, acting and dialogue are sadly lacking in originality and substance.<BR>The plot feels fo…
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