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(B) Agent Cody Banks
I took four young teenagers to this movie and they loved it. But I was not as impressed. The idea is a cute one -- but it was cuter when...
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Posted on Sunday March 9, 2003
(A-) Akeelah and the Bee
"Prestidigitation." Akeelah (Keke Palmer) has just won her school's spelling bee and everyone is impressed and proud. But Dr. Larrabee (Laurence Fishburne), who, like Keke, grew up in Compton, pushes...
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Posted on Thursday March 16, 2006
(B-) Aliens in the Attic
Back in the era of Saturday matinées, "Aliens in the Attic" would have been just fine sandwiched between a couple of cartoons and a newsreel, especially if about half an...
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Posted on Tuesday November 3, 2009
(A+) All the President's Men
Based on the real-life story of the two reporters who would not give up on the story of the Watergate break-in, this is as gripping as any detective novel. Bob...
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
(A-) An Inconvenient Truth
No zombies. No chain saws. No mutants. No aliens. No meteors hurtling toward Earth. And yet, this is the scariest movie of the year, not, as some jokes suggest, because...
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Posted on Wednesday May 24, 2006
(B) Arctic Tale
The people behind "March of the Penguins" have put together another endearing story of life in the coldest place on earth. This time, it is the story of two newborns,...
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Posted on Monday December 3, 2007
(C+) Are We There Yet?
Robert Benchley once wrote, "There are two kinds of travel, first class and with children." But the longest, naggiest, car-sickiest travel with children cannot be any more tedious than this...
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Posted on Friday January 7, 2005
(C-) Astro Boy
Genre: Action/Adventure, Animation, Based on a television show, Fantasy, Remake, Series/Sequel, Superhero
MPAA Rating: PG Audience: 4th - 6th Grades
MPAA Rating: PG Audience: 4th - 6th Grades
A show of hands, everyone. If you think it's a good idea to begin a movie for children by killing off a young boy in an industrial accident as his...
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Posted on Thursday October 22, 2009
(A) Awakenings
Malcolm Sayer, a shy neurologist (Robin Williams), is assigned to work with patients for the first time after his research funding is cut off. His patients, all but catatonic, are...
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
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