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(B+) A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
Cross "2001" with "ET" and "Blade Runner" and throw in some "Pinocchio," some "Wizard of Oz," some "Velveteen Rabbit" and a touch of "Our Town," and you might have some...
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
(B-) Aeon Flux
Maybe it's just that my expectations were so low because it was not screened for critics (meaning the studios did not think they would get even one good review), but...
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Posted on Sunday December 4, 2005
(A+) All About Eve
Margo Channing (Bette Davis), a Broadway diva beginning to show her age, meets the young fan who stands outside the theater after every performance (Anne Baxter as Eve Harrington)....
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
(B-) All the King's Men
This is the story of the rise and fall of a Southern politician, based on the career of Louisiana's Huey Long. Here, the politician is named Willie Stark (Broderick Crawford),...
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Posted on Monday September 18, 2006
(A+) Amadeus
Antionio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham in an Oscar-winning performance), the court composer, should have been Mozart. He followed all the rules, worked hard, and cared deeply. Music was his life....
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
(B+) Amazing Grace
Parents should know that this film includes frank descriptions of some of the most profound atrocities of the slave trade, including torture and rape. The painful symptoms of Wilberforce's long-term...
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Posted on Sunday January 28, 2007
(D) America's Sweethearts
It sounds like it can't miss -- a delicious situation created by a guy who knows how to write jokes, with an all-star cast. But it does miss. Billy Crystal,...
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
(C+) American Outlaws
American Outlaws" is a rock and roll western for the MTV era. It may be a little on the dumb and cheesy side, but it does not take itself or...
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
(B) An Unfinished Life
A bear is wandering through farms looking for something to eat. An angry and abusive man is following the woman who left him because he wants her to come back,...
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Posted on Monday September 5, 2005
(B+) Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera
Despite lavish settings and sweeping camera movement, this sumptuously produced Andrew Lloyd Weber musical feels static, stuffy, and stagey. This is in part because so much of it takes place...
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Posted on Friday December 10, 2004
(C+) Annapolis
Sincere performances and some star charisma can't save this movie from its derivative screenplay, a retread of every "callow youth learns what it means to be a man" service drama....
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Posted on Wednesday January 25, 2006
(A+) Apollo 13
This movie should be called "Smart and Smarter." In addition to the thrilling story, masterful performances, and impeccable technical authenticity, it is a heartening story of the triumph of smart...
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
(B+) Armageddon
The summer thrill ride movie is becoming as much of a 4th of July tradition as the picnic and the fireworks, and the 1998 version is "Armageddon," the second movie...
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
(B+) ATL
The star of this movie is first-time director Chris Robinson, who took an appealing but conventional story of five friends on the brink of adulthood and made it come alive...
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Posted on Wednesday March 29, 2006
(B-) August Rush
Those who are willing to open their hearts to this urban fairy tale will find its pleasures, as long as they they don't think about it too hard....
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Posted on Tuesday March 11, 2008
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