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    <title><![CDATA[   &lsquo;A Christmas Carol': Jim Carrey is a memorable miser | 3 stars ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:15 CST</pubDate>
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        There are a few moments in Disney&amp;rsquo;s computer-animated &amp;ldquo;A Christmas Carol&amp;rdquo; when director Robert Zemeckis seems bent on re-imagining the yarn as a theme park thrill ride. But despite these lapses into unnecessary and unwelcome audience pandering, this &amp;ldquo;Carol&amp;rdquo;  delivers. And Jim Carrey gets most of the credit.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   &lsquo;The Men Who Stare at Goats': Funny parts don't add up to a whole | 2 &frac12; stars ]]></title>
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        &amp;ldquo;The Men Who Stare at Goats&amp;rdquo; is a handful of hilarious scenes looking for a movie. Based on Jon Ronson&amp;rsquo;s nonfiction book about attempts by the CIA and the military to &amp;ldquo;weaponize&amp;rdquo; the occult, Grant Heslov&amp;rsquo;s directing debut offers plenty of New Age silliness and yet another memorable performance from George Clooney, this time as a paranoiac convinced he&amp;rsquo;s a Jedi warrior.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   &lsquo;The Fourth Kind': Only kind of scary | 2 stars ]]></title>
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        The Fourth Kind&amp;rdquo; is a &amp;ldquo;found footage&amp;rdquo; horror movie with a few new tweaks, though not enough to escape a certain clunkiness. At the onset of Olatunde Osunsanmi&amp;rsquo;s film, actress Milla Jovovich addresses the camera to announce that she&amp;rsquo;ll be playing real-life Alaska psychologist Abigail Emily Tyler in re-enactments of actual events.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   &lsquo;Coco Before Chanel': One actor steals the show | 2 &frac12; stars ]]></title>
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        Waifish Audrey Tautou is the main selling point of &amp;ldquo;Coco Before Chanel,&amp;rdquo; a look at the early years of the woman who would become the 20th century&amp;rsquo;s greatest fashion icon. And yet we cannot take our eyes off Belgian actor Beno&amp;icirc;t Poelvoorde, a nondescript, slightly balding fellow who plays young Coco&amp;rsquo;s first lover and benefactor.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   &lsquo;The Box' fails to deliver anything worth watching | 1 star ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:15 CST</pubDate>
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        Have you ever actually tried watching paint dry? A sloth walk? Grass grow? You can have all the &amp;ldquo;thrills&amp;rdquo; with none of the chills courtesy of &amp;ldquo;The Box,&amp;rdquo; the painfully sluggish new sci-fi morality play from &amp;ldquo;Donnie Darko&amp;rdquo; creator Richard Kelly.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   'This Is It' shines a light on Jackson's genius | 3 1/2 stars ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:15 CDT</pubDate>
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        In &amp;ldquo;This Is It,&amp;rdquo; the man who turned the music video into an art form and propelled it into the mainstream stratosphere uses the same medium to eulogize himself.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   &lsquo;A Serious Man' shows suffering is good for the funny bone | 3 stars ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:15 CDT</pubDate>
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        The biblical story of Job &amp;mdash; whose devoutness was tested by just about every misfortune God could devise &amp;mdash; gets a modern spin in &amp;ldquo;A Serious Man.&amp;rdquo; Of course, God is not an active participant here. After all, this is a Coen brothers film.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   &lsquo;The Baader Meinhof Complex' makes history thrilling | 3 stars ]]></title>
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        It&amp;rsquo;s one thing to know the facts of history. It&amp;rsquo;s another to immerse yourself into the minds of the men and women who made that history, to comprehend the complexities of their lives and circumstances. That&amp;rsquo;s the sort of intense insight provided by Uli Edel&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;The Baader Meinhof Complex.&amp;rdquo;      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   'Amreeka' is a subtle, sweet story | 3 1/2 stars ]]></title>
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        Low-key and lived-in, the immigrant tale &amp;ldquo;Amreeka&amp;rdquo; at first feels like a this-will-be-good-for-you movie. You can try to resist it, but by the time Cherien Dabis&amp;rsquo; writing/directing effort is over, you&amp;rsquo;ll be completely sucked in.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   &lsquo;Amelia' never gains altitude | 2 &frac12; stars ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:15 CDT</pubDate>
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        No borders, just horizons,&amp;rdquo; enthuses aviator Amelia Earhart in the new biopic &amp;ldquo;Amelia.&amp;rdquo; &amp;ldquo;Who wants a life imprisoned in safety?&amp;rdquo; And yet this film, coming 72 years after Earhart vanished &amp;mdash; plays it awfully safe.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   &lsquo;Saw VI': A bit of message behind the mayhem | 2 stars ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:15 CDT</pubDate>
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        &#147;You have seen the errors in your policy,&#148; Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) hisses in the latest &#147;Saw&#148; movie. And, kids, he&#39;s hissing a pun at Big Insurance when he does, the profiteers who determine &#147;who lives and who dies.&#148;      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   &lsquo;Good Hair': Chris Rock's straight talk | 3 stars ]]></title>
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        Good Hair&amp;rdquo; is an hourlong documentary passing itself off as a 90-minute documentary. Despite the padding, there&amp;rsquo;s enough interesting sociological digging here &amp;mdash; not to mention the easygoing presence of comic Chris Rock &amp;mdash; to keep us entertained and even enlightened.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   &lsquo;Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant' sucks the life out of the story | 1 &frac12; stars ]]></title>
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        With its impressive pedigree, &amp;ldquo;Cirque du Freak: The Vampire&amp;rsquo;s Assistant&amp;rdquo; should have been a show dog. Instead it&amp;rsquo;s a mutt.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   &lsquo;Astro Boy' never takes flight | 2 stars ]]></title>
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        The animated &amp;ldquo;Astro Boy&amp;rdquo; is a shiny hodgepodge of &amp;ldquo;Pinocchio,&amp;rdquo; &amp;ldquo;WALL-E,&amp;rdquo; &amp;ldquo;Oliver Twist,&amp;rdquo; &amp;ldquo;Gladiator&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;Superman,&amp;rdquo; with some obvious visual touches taken from &amp;ldquo;The Iron Giant.&amp;rdquo; As its own entity, though, it&amp;rsquo;s forgettable.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   &lsquo;Where the Wild Things Are': Monstrous moping | 2 stars ]]></title>
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        The children&amp;rsquo;s classic &amp;ldquo;Where the Wild Things Are&amp;rdquo; is sneakily deceptive. With few words and marvelous illustrations Maurice Sendak evoked an entire universe of fantastic creatures, imbued with evocative ideas about childhood and responsibility. It worked because it was simple. Our imaginations filled in the gaps.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   &lsquo;Law Abiding Citizen': Sadistic mayhem | 2 stars ]]></title>
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        The temptation is to laugh the revenge melodrama &amp;ldquo;Law Abiding Citizen&amp;rdquo; right off the screen. We don&amp;rsquo;t, thanks to some tense pacing, a couple of jump-out-of-your-seat moments and a cast of pros who perform as if this weren&amp;rsquo;t preposterous.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   &lsquo;The Stepfather': No gimmicks, minimal suspense | 2 stars ]]></title>
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        Finally, a horror thriller served up straight. No werewolves, Lycans or jerks named Jigsaw. But the best you can say about the remake of &amp;ldquo;The Stepfather&amp;rdquo; is that it efficiently goes about its business.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   &lsquo;Couples Retreat': Paradise lost | 2 stars ]]></title>
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        Couples Retreat&#148; must have been a blast to make. Wish more of the fun had rubbed off on the movie. This hit-and-miss (mostly miss) comedy sends four Midwestern couples off to a tropical paradise (spectacular Bora Bora) for a vacation that doesn&#39;t play out quite as planned.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   &lsquo;Paranormal Activity': Low budget, high fear | 3 stars ]]></title>
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        The time to tell your significant other that an evil force has been stalking you since childhood is long before you&#39;ve moved in together. A demon/ghost/ whatever needn&#39;t be a deal breaker, but it should at least get a mention.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   &lsquo;Zombieland': Night of the laughing dead | 3 stars ]]></title>
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        You could forgive the survivors of the zombie apocalypse if they were to sink into a morass of angst and self-pity. But where is the fun in that?      
    
  

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