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The Surprisingly Entertaining, Eccentric 'Florence Foster Jenkins'

Screeching her way to another successful performance, Meryl Streep makes Florence Foster Jenkins much more than the traditional historic biopic.
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American Dreamz (2006)

Here's the rub: does it matter that consumers know all about the badness and the cynical ambition, but watch anyway?

Cynthia Fuchs
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Bridget Jones's Diary: Collector's Edition (2001)

Speaking of her star, Renée Zellweger, Maguire is appropriately besotted: 'You can see what she brought to Bridget. She's got this fantastic warmth and this permanent confusion on her face.'"

Cynthia Fuchs
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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)

This time the bloom is quite off.

Cynthia Fuchs
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Love Actually (2003)

On occasion, the film allows a jaded sensibility to worm its way into this otherwise picturesque world.

Mary Colgan
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Two Weeks Notice (2002)

People keep wanting Sandy Bullock to be sweet and feisty like she was in Speed.

Cynthia Fuchs
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About A Boy (2002)

'About A Boy' is not 'The Hugh Show'. Thank goodness.

Cynthia Fuchs
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Small Time Crooks

Allen's best work achieved greatness by being more than funny —by revealing or capturing something more substantive about human relationships. With Small Time Crooks, the substance comes from the unexpected satire of class differences that gets at something truer than a mere fish-out-of-water story.

Lucas Hilderbrand

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