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Mill's towering righteousness is just too much for this weak little film, whose only interest is in affirming the white patriarchal prerogative.
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The Wackness
The Wackness is a too familiar nostalgic movie, with period soundtrack, hot summer nights, and boys coming of age.
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The Treatment (2007)
Just as you're questioning your own capacity for sympathy, the best reason to keep watching The Treatment shows up: Famke Janssen.
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It's a superhero movie, so all these choices involve massive destruction -- buildings disintegrating, fireballs flying, bodies detonating.
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Dakota Fanning seems alternately to be channeling Beetlejuice-era Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci's Wednesday Addams.
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X2: X-Men United (2003)
At once all powerful and utterly powerless, this involuntary terrorist is the first mutant you meet in X2.
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X2: X-Men United (2003)
At once all powerful and utterly powerless, this involuntary terrorist is the first mutant you meet in X2.
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I Spy (2002)
The basic opposition between sheepish Alex and suave Kelly sets up a series of trivial conflicts, some less tedious than others.
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