<P>Miss Austen Regrets was screened by PBS in America earlier this year. </P>
<P>Here are a selection of American reviews of the film: </P>
<P>Hollywood Reporter</P>
<P> "Austen's life and the world she created in her writing provide amp…
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<P>There are a bunch of theories floating around the fanboy -- and fangirl -- Internet purporting to explain why Penelope is only getting released in theaters now. It did, after all, make its debut all the way back at the 2006 Toronto Film Fest…
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<P>After 9/11, I remember "Serendipity" being sold as a love letter to New York. If you really want to see passion for the character and charm of the city, you could not, in all probability, do better than this movie. It made me nostalgic for a…
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<P>Let me start by saying that Hercules, Walt Disney Pictures' 35th animated feature, makes for good family entertainment. Good, not great. While this film is capable of providing a ninety minute diversion for both kids and adults, it's a far c…
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<P>"Pocahontas II: Journey To A New World" is an above-average Disney sequel. It is a sequel with enough things going for it to get a three-star rating instead of two-and-a-half, the standard for such direct-to-video releases. The approach is a…
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<P>New York Minute goes way beyond any of the girlish movie fantasylands usually presented in films starring Hilary Duff, Anne Hathaway, or Mandy Moore. Indeed The Olsen Twins, or Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen as they now prefer to be called…
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<P>How many different spins have their been on the "buddy film"? From The Odd Couple to Lethal Weapon, it seems that just about every angle has been covered. Then along comes a movie like Guarding Tess that thinks it has a unique twist to this …
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<P>"Over Her Dead Body" may be the worst romantic comedy I've ever seen, although I hesitate to make such a resolute pronouncement about a movie that's so barely even there. Paul Rudd is Henry, a low-key, good-natured veterinarian -- in the mov…
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<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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