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The Wackness is a too familiar nostalgic movie, with period soundtrack, hot summer nights, and boys coming of age.
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And it just doesn't stop. If part two in this three-ring play was packed with well hyped product, July just keeps the receipt treats coming.
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The Treatment
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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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Hide and Seek (2005)
Dakota Fanning seems alternately to be channeling Beetlejuice-era Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci's Wednesday Addams.
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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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