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Lisa Rice
Charlie Bartlett is a well-made, funny but sad, targeted look at the very real emotions that plague our children. It is an...
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Annabelle Robertson
Based on Adolf Burger’s wartime memoir, The Devil’s Workshop, The Counterfeiters wisely keeps its focus on the far more...
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Christian Hamaker
Jumper could have been the start of an entertaining franchise had it registered a pulse. Unable to clear even lowest of plot...
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Christa Banister
Unlike the mindless frivolity of Fool’s Gold or the by-the-numbers cuteness of 27 Dresses, Definitely, Maybe is...
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Lisa Rice
The typical magical, fantasy-type outlook pervades The Spiderwick Chronicles' dark worldview. Creatures, spells and potions,...
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Christa Banister
In Fool’s Gold, one might expect more of the comedy and chemistry Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson first had in How to...
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Christian Hamaker
How so many talented actors ended up in Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins is a mystery. Many of the big names have only a few lines...
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Christian Hamaker
A fascinating moment in history comes to life in Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon, an adaptation of Peter Morgan's stage play. Starring Frank Langella as Richard Nixon and Michael Sheen as interviewer David Frost, the film stands out as a retelling of a landmark TV interview.
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Christian Hamaker
Moments of broad humor and Baz Luhrmann’s directorial flourishes add spice to the early stretch of this otherwise bland muddle of a movie, but it doesn’t take too long to recognize that Australia...
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Christa Banister
Four Christmases seems to have all the right ingredients to be fun, ‘tis-the-season escapist entertainment. Yet for all the effort the protagonists make to be likeable and the carefully-staged gags, the movie still falls horribly flat.
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Christa Banister
Bolt is probably the best-looking Disney movie in a good long while. Crafted in gorgeous 3-D splendor, it’s a feast for the eyes complete with lavish attention to detail. And the engagingly drawn...
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Christian Hamaker
For those familiar with Stephenie Meyer’s books and drawn to the buzz around the story, that should be more than enough. But those interested in character motives beyond unspoken physical attraction may find Twilight wanting.
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Jeffrey Huston
In Quantum of Solace, the complex story is the driving force, especially in the final act when the plot machine takes over so completely that characters become little more than cogs in the wheel—but...
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Christian Hamaker
Slumdog Millionaire, an uplifting story about a young man triumphing on an Indian game show, is a colorful, vibrant film that reaffirms Danny Boyle as one of the more interesting filmmakers working today.
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Do you want to have a rockin' good time, but don't have the time to rock?
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Build your own portable garden!
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Dr. Gary Nelson, the author of 'A Relentless Hope,' discusses depression in teens.
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Mall patrons find the laugh's on them when guy asks girl to marry him.
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