Monday, June 16, 2008

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Enchanted
While it walks cautiously in the shadow of self-referential monstrosities like Shrek, Disney’s latest princess feature Enchanted is an amusing romp that plays more happily to the all-important four quadrant ideals than anything else the studio has released this year. However, it’s a charmer with severe reservations. Read More
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Love in the Time of Cholera
There’s Love in the title, but very little to be found elsewhere in this baffling, borderline slapstick romantic drama. It has the carriage of an uninhibited heartbreaker, but the storytelling here was meant to stay in the literary realm, where patience could be afforded to such an extravagant display of diseased, unpleasant characters. Read More
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Margot at the Wedding
If you sat through The Squid and the Whale, Noah Baumbach’s 2005 comedy-drama about a family of spiteful narcissists do even more damage to themselves and their loved ones when they are torn apart by divorce, and felt that the characters were just too cuddly and charming for your tastes, then his latest effort, Margot at the Wedding, should be right up your alley. Read More
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Lions for lambs
"Lions for Lambs," the preachy, star-driven first release of United Artists under Tom Cruise and producing partner Paula Wagner's management, seems to ask every question imaginable about the war on terrorism while offering not a hint of answers. Read More
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Beowulf
The name "Beowulf" alone surely will inspire painful memories of high-school English class and pangs of dread. Never fear. This 3-D animated "Beowulf" is more like "300," only with more violence, if that's possible. Read More
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