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By:
Kit Bowen
March 09, 2007 5:58am EST
Wild Hogs is basically City Slickers meets Easy Rider--just a whole lot sillier without any sociological angst.
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By:
Brian Marder
January 19, 2007 11:55am EST
There’s not a shred of originality to be seen in The Hitcher, but it’s still enough of an assault on two of the five senses to tide you over till the next horror remake.
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By:
Brian Marder
December 20, 2006 4:28am EST
While The Pursuit of Happyness could very easily be subtitled The Pursuit of Sappyness, the terrific father-son dynamic between Will and Jaden Smith is enough to make for an effective tearjerker—barely.
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By:
Kit Bowen
December 15, 2006 4:43am EST
Although Charlotte's Web suffers a little from Babe envy, it is still a very faithful and endearing live-action adaptation of the beloved children’s classic. It's the talking pig movie for the next generation!
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By:
Kit Bowen
December 11, 2006 5:47am EST
Watching The Holiday is a little like ordering a sticky cinnamon bun: You know the gooey, warm sweetness will taste good, but you’ll feel guilty eating it.
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By:
Fred Topel
November 17, 2006 6:07am EST
Chow down on this taste of life inside the meat packing and “Happy Meal” Fast Food Nation.
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By:
Nicholas White
October 20, 2006 8:08am EST
An insightful epic that recasts World War II through a prism of symbols and heroes, Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers is a visual treat, combining CGI with an old look in ambitious, thrilling battle scenes. One of the year’s best films.
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By:
Scott Huver
October 20, 2006 8:07am EST
One part lavish—and revisionist—history of one of France’s most reviled monarchs, one part ode to classic teen-girl-alienation of the John Hughes variety, Marie Antoinette is a surprisingly sumptuous slice of cinematic cake.
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By:
Kit Bowen
October 17, 2006 6:32am EST
Rather than re-creating something new, the grim Grudge 2 goes to the excess--scare tactics for scare tactics' sake, with little of the original’s dark and terrible mystery.
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By:
Scott Huver
September 08, 2006 5:04am EST
Hollywoodland is a well-acted, moody and sumptuously evocative recreation of LA’s seemingly glamorous underbelly circa the 1950s but tries entirely too hard to be Chinatown.