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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
(D) Abandon
Given the talent involved, it really is almost impressive how bad "Abandon" is. The movie is written by Stephen Gaghan, who last won an Oscar for "Traffic" and here makes...
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
(B+) About a Boy
"About a Boy" is the story of a shallow man appropriately named Will Freeman (Hugh Grant) who believes, contrary to John Donne, that every man is an island. Or at...
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
(B-) Accepted
Bartleby (Justin Long) has been turned down at every single college he applied to. His friends' college plans have also turned out badly. No problem. Bartleby is a can-do Ferris...
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Posted on Monday August 14, 2006
(C) Across the Universe
On the list of movies featuring Beatles songs, this one comes far below A Hard Day's Night, Yellow Submarine, Let It Be, and Help but slightly above Sgt. Pepper's Lonely...
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Posted on Tuesday February 5, 2008
(B+) Adam
Adam (Hugh Dancy), appropriately shares his name with the first man because even though he lives in contemporary Manhattan, he is in a very real way new to the world....
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Posted on Thursday August 6, 2009
(D) Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights
"8 Crazy Nights" is a bit of an enigma. In the Venn diagram of movie goers, Adam Sandler fans are not an easy overlap with those who cherish holiday musicals....
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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
(C) After the Sunset
This movie features two of the most glorious sights on earth -- Paradise Island and Salma Hayak in a bikini. Unfortunately, it keeps putting unappealing characters and a dumb story...
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Posted on Thursday November 11, 2004
(B) The Alamo
There is only one reason to see "The Alamo," and it is Billy Bob Thornton. His portrayal of Davy Crockett is magnificently vibrant, fully imagined, and so breathtakingly evocative of...
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Posted on Thursday April 8, 2004
(B-) Alex and Emma
Kate Hudson is so irresistibly charming that it is easy to forget how tepid and uninspired this movie is. It is always a delight to see Hudson's saucer-eyed smile and...
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Posted on Wednesday June 18, 2003
(D) All About Steve
Somewhere deep inside this movie, like the little tiny pea in the bed of the princess, is an idea that could have been an interesting movie. Unfortunately, as with that...
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Posted on Thursday September 3, 2009
(D) All I Wanna Do
An appealing cast of talented performers and some mild good intentions cannot save this uneven and sour comedy (originally released with the title "Strike!") about a girls' boarding school that...
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
(B-) All the King's Men
Genre: Based on a book, Based on a true story, Biography, Drama, Remake
MPAA Rating: PG-13 Audience: High School
MPAA Rating: PG-13 Audience: High School
Huey Long was man of gigantic proportions, an epic, almost operatic figure who rose to power as the greatest of populists, succumbed to corruption, and was murdered at age 42....
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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
(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
(B) American Dreamz
The Roman rulers used to distract the populace from the problems of corruption and decadence with "bread and circuses." Today's equivalent might be junk food and television, especially "reality" television....
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Posted on Tuesday April 18, 2006
(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+) American Violet
Meet two extraordinary women -- Dee Roberts, based on a real-life single mother who took on corrupt and racist law enforcement officials in Texas and Nicole Beharie, the woman who...
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Posted on Tuesday October 13, 2009
(A-) An Education
Genre: Based on a book, Based on a true story, Drama, Family Issues, Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13 Audience: High School
MPAA Rating: PG-13 Audience: High School
Part of the charm of "An Education," a bittersweet coming of age story based on a brief memoir by Lynn Barber, is how much we know what its main character...
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Posted on Thursday October 29, 2009
(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
(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
(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-) Australia
Writer/director Baz Luhrmann is known for his surprises. In Strictly Ballroom, William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet , and Moulin Rouge! he created visual and musical mash-ups of classic and pop...
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Posted on Tuesday March 3, 2009
(B) Away From Her
Parents should know that this is a very sad movie with themes that may be disturbing to some audience members. Characters use brief strong language. Families who see this movie...
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Posted on Friday March 16, 2007
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