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Action and Heartbreak, Not Romance, the Focal Point of "New Moon"
With a strikingly different tone than it's swoony, spooky counterpart Twilight, New Moon actually answers the age-old question that most romantic comedy scripts never have the opportunity to: What happens after the girl actually lands the man—or in this case, vampire—of her dreams?
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"The Blind Side" Shows Faith in Action
After burnishing her star power with the summer hit The Proposal, Sandra Bullock embodies Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side and, in the process, creates one of the year’s more memorable characters. And she’s no fictional creation.
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So-So "Planet 51" Gets a Boost from Much Better Movies
While recycling old ideas was basically status quo, surprisingly enough, borrowing from other otherworldly space-age flicks including Stars Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. and Alien actually elevates Planet 51’s overall enjoyment factor.
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"Precious" is an Unflinchingly Honest Portrayal of Poverty, Abuse and Hope
Not only are there Oscar-worthy performances here from newcomer Gabourey Sidibe and Mo'Nique, who is, hands down, one of the scariest villains since Heath Ledger's Joker in The Dark Knight, but director Lee Daniels gets the story just right by not shying away from the ugly truth of poverty, illiteracy and abuse.
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The End Isn't Quite Soon Enough in "2012"
Sure, the disaster movie format provides countless opportunities to show off the latest CGI trickery, and there are a handful of memorable moments in 2012. But certainly not enough to justify the overly long running time.
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By-the-Books Smarts VS Life Experience Debated in "An Education"
In addition to an old-fashioned love story complete with a gloriously throwback aesthetic, An Education poses the age-old question of which educational experiences are really the most important: what happens in the classroom or in "the real world."
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The End All, Cure All for Hiccups
Not all hiccups are just momentary inconveniences in our lives. Some are long-term sources of intense pain, heartache and struggle. Whatever you are...
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Available and Vulnerable
What seems to stand in the way of me living a life of true service and being "available and vulnerable" is just plain old me. I'm not unlike James and...
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