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Who’s Your Caddy? (2007)

Comedy Rated PG-13

"…populated exclusively by clownish characters – of every color."

Citizen Kane (1941)

Drama Rated NR

“The cinema through Rosebud-colored glasses.”

Becoming Jane (2007)

Romantic Comedy Rated PG-13

“Contrived and hokey where Austen’s work is effortless and romantic…

Bourne Ultimatum, The (2007)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

“The way that Bourne gets from one place to another with such speed and no obvious source of money makes me wish he was my travel agent.

Ten, The (2007)

Comedy Rated R

“…never fully takes advantage of its biblical premise.”

Arctic Tale (2007)

Documentary Rated G

The magic of March of the Penguins was the way the movie drew its narrative from the actual, odd patterns of nature itself. Arctic Tale, another frigid feature from National Geographic Films, forces our human sense of story on the animals we see, namely a walrus calf and a pair of polar bear cubs negotiating

Underdog (2007)

Family Rated PG

“The adults in Underdog appear to be having a really good time, and that helps the adults in the audience have a fairly good one.

Bratz (2007)

Family Rated PG

“The girls in the live-action Bratz movie look less – what’s the right word? – whorish than the dolls, but the lifestyle their movie is selling is no less disturbing.

Bridges of Madison County, The (1995)

Drama Rated PG-13

It may be true that the best movie romances are always bittersweet, but this Clint Eastwood effort goes so far beyond bittersweet it’s downright depressing. Based on Robert James Waller’s best-seller, the movie traces a four-day affair between a National Geographic photographer on assignment (Eastwood) and an unsatisfied Iowa housewife (Meryl Streep, breathing real life

No Reservations (2007)

Drama Rated PG

As Kate Armstrong, a no-nonsense chef at a chic New York restaurant, Catherine Zeta-Jones crimps her lips and fastidiously straightens her apron, yet the mannerisms come off as yet another contrivance in a picture full of them. Equally annoying is Aaron Eckhart as Kate’s new sous chef. Blaring opera in the kitchen and talking to

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Comedy Rated PG

“Parton’s smile wins 1,000 hearts and deflects twice as many harassing come-ons.”

Cure (1997)

Thriller Rated NR

“Like an unsettled mind, this is littered with background disturbances…”

It Ends (2026)

Horror Rated R

“A delectably malleable metaphor movie…”


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