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Larry David's latest venture in feature filmmaking is a half-baked wrinkle on the "Curb" formula, but wouldn't it be rude not to watch?

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This year's crop of wedding-centric romantic comedies offer up some things old, a few things new, and a lot of things borrowed (but not much blue).

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Well-choreographed dance numbers abound. Costumes and lighting take center stage. Audiences even get the giddy entertainment of watching movie stars prove themselves as fine to passable singers.

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This impossible place -- most desired object and least elucidated subject -- makes Molly typical of the women in white guy romcoms.

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The Skeleton Key (2005)

For anyone with even passing knowledge of Southern gothics, Violet (Gena Rowlands) is all red flags.

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Raising Helen (2004)

'Raising Helen's a happy, peppy picture, with Kate Hudson and her legs,' says Garry Marshall.

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Raising Helen (2004)

Helen's initial efforts to maintain her previous life are as glib as her inheritance of the children.

Cynthia Fuchs

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Le Divorce (2003)

Like previous Merchant-Ivory productions, Le Divorce concerns culture clashes, disruptive expatriates, and squabbles over stuff.

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Alex & Emma (2003)

It is Alex's fantasy into which the film and Emma's seeming interests devolve.

Cynthia Fuchs

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How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)

She's so cute, he's so cute, everyone's so cute.

Cynthia Fuchs

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The Four Feathers (2002)

It's alarmingly short-sighted fiction, offering only occasional glimpses of the imperial project's fundamental viciousness and ignorance.

Cynthia Fuchs

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Larry David's latest venture in feature filmmaking is a half-baked wrinkle on the "Curb" formula, but wouldn't it be rude not to watch?

FOX’s American Idol, the current highest rated show on TV, will still hold a Thursday night spot when it returns in January, but the season starts off with the less-popular X Factor.

This year's crop of wedding-centric romantic comedies offer up some things old, a few things new, and a lot of things borrowed (but not much blue).

Well-choreographed dance numbers abound. Costumes and lighting take center stage. Audiences even get the giddy entertainment of watching movie stars prove themselves as fine to passable singers.

You know what this movie will make you want to do? Elope.

There's bad, and then there's 2008 level bad. You know this list is looking down into a deep dark bottomless pit of cinematic despair when Mike Myers' shameful Love Guru didn't even make the Top 20!

Bride Wars is part cautionary tale, part fairy tale, and part Jerry Springer episode, as Liv and Emma's so-called dreams are wholly conventional and their antics are increasingly outrageous.

From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.

In fact, Fool's Gold is pretty much bereft of bright spots.

This impossible place -- most desired object and least elucidated subject -- makes Molly typical of the women in white guy romcoms.

For anyone with even passing knowledge of Southern gothics, Violet (Gena Rowlands) is all red flags.

'Raising Helen's a happy, peppy picture, with Kate Hudson and her legs,' says Garry Marshall.

Helen's initial efforts to maintain her previous life are as glib as her inheritance of the children.

Like previous Merchant-Ivory productions, Le Divorce concerns culture clashes, disruptive expatriates, and squabbles over stuff.

It is Alex's fantasy into which the film and Emma's seeming interests devolve.

She's so cute, he's so cute, everyone's so cute.

It's alarmingly short-sighted fiction, offering only occasional glimpses of the imperial project's fundamental viciousness and ignorance.