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(C+) About Adam
It begins as a sweet, simple love story. A flirtatious waitress named Lucy (Kate Hudson) falls for a man named Adam (Stuart Townsend). All the other men in Lucy's life...
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
(C+) The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle
Fans of the old "Rocky and Bullwinkle" cartoon show fondly remember its wisecracking sensibility and its refusal to take anything seriously, especially itself. And they remember its terrible puns, planted...
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
(C+) Along Came Polly
The writer and star of Meet the Parents reunite in this much tamer comedy about a risk-averse guy who meets a free spirit. Reuben (Ben Stiller) evaluates risk for a...
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Posted on Tuesday January 13, 2004
(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
(C+) American Pie 2
Teenagers will want to see this movie because it is raunchy and gross. But like the original, the gross and raunchy moments, though frequent, are less important than the movie's...
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
(C+) Andre
"Plot: A shy little girl from Maine makes friends with a seal in this fact-based story about a seal that swam from Boston to Maine every summer for 24 years....
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
(C+) Anna and the King
This is the fourth movie version –- and the second this year -- of the story of Anna Leonowens, brought to Siam in 1864 by King Monghut to teach his...
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
(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
(C+) Antz
The technological mastery and all-star cast all but obscure the one real problem of this movie -- it does not know who its audience is. The computer animation -- and...
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
(C+) Anything Else
Woody Allen has repackaged characters, themes, and even jokes from his best movies in this soggy and lackluster trifle about a young comedy writer stuck in various relationships. This time,...
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Posted on Monday September 22, 2003
(C+) Anywhere But Here
Adele (Susan Sarandon), a free-spirited teacher, takes her 14 year old daughter Ann (Natalie Portman) to Los Angeles in a gold-colored Mercedes. Ann resents her mother for taking her away...
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
(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+) The Aristocats
Not one of Disney's best, but this is a nice animated story of an elegant cat (voice of Eva Gabor) who must find her way back home with her kittens...
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
(C+) Arlington Road
This is a very scary movie about a very scary subject -- terrorism. Indeed, its release was delayed due to concerns about the sensitivity of the material. Jeff Bridges plays...
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
(C+) Around the World in 80 Days
This movie may take its title from the Jules Verne classic adventure about the man who circled the globe in 80 days to win a bet, but it is really...
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Posted on Thursday June 10, 2004
(C+) Atlantis: The Lost Empire
For the third time in a row, Disney departs from its traditional animation release formula with this non-musical, intense-action adventure (rated PG for violence) about the search for the legendary...
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
(C+) Austin Powers in Goldmember
Another year, another Austin Powers movie. And that means 30 very funny minutes surrounded by 60 minutes of far less funny jokes about body parts and body functions, primarily those...
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
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