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Carrie Rickey was born in L.A. around the time the Jennifer Jones/Laurence Olivier movie Carrie hit screens. Hence her name. Since then she's seen more than 12,000 films without losing her love of movies -- or wordplay. But don't envy her job too much. She has to sit through the likes of Battlefield Earth just so she can warn you not to.
Trance, an art-heist movie from Danny Boyle, is a thriller cloaked in a film noir twisted into a Mobius strip and shoved into a cranny where movie amnesiacs hide repressed memories that audiences try to retrieve.
Parental Guidance is an engaging comedy that bridges multiple generation gaps, making it that rare movie that grandparents, their kids, and their kids can enjoy. Directed with more warmth than art by Andy Fickman, the film is just endearing enough to forgive it its contrivances.
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Circle of life, warm and funny
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Parental Guidance is an engaging comedy that bridges multiple generation gaps, making it that rare movie that grandparents, their kids, and their kids can enjoy. Directed with more warmth than art by Andy Fickman, the film is just endearing enough to forgive it its contrivances.
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Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away
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About 40 minutes into Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away, I swear I saw a Lycra-clad Ming the Merciless brandish a paella pan brimming with something red. I thought I was looking at Amfortas' wound in a Las Vegas production of Parsifal. I blinked several times. Both Ming and his paella pan were still there. Ordinarily, one needs the assistance of street drugs or a kaleidoscope to experience a sustained hallucination like this. Maybe it was the 3-D glasses?
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'Any Day Now': A drag queen, a lawyer, a Down syndrome teen
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Rudy Donatello (Alan Cumming), a self-styled drag queen from Queens, is impish and irrepressible. As he whips hair back and forth while lip-synching pop songs on the stage of a Hollywood gay bar, his sparkly flamboyance suggests that he might be the spawn of Diana Ross and My Little Pony.
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The boy and the Bengal cat went to sea . . .
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Reprinted from Wednesday's editions. Talk about crouching tigers! Ang Lee, director of a certain martial-arts adventure, pounces on Life of Pi, the mystical tale based on Yann Martel's novel of a wiry Bengal tiger and a wary adolescent adrift in a lifeboat.
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'Rise of the Guardians,' protecting truth, justice and the childhood way
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Reprinted from Wednesday's editions. Santa, the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny don't merely know one another. According to Rise of the Guardians, Mr. North Pole, Ms. Molar, and the Rabbit are in league with Sandman and relative newcomer Jack Frost to protect and serve the imaginations of children everywhere.
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Lifeboat full of faith in 'Life of Pi'
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Talk about crouching tigers! Ang Lee, director of a certain martial-arts adventure, pounces on Life of Pi, the mystical tale based on Yann Martel's novel of a wiry Bengal tiger and a wary adolescent adrift in a lifeboat.
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Rise of the Guardians
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Santa, the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny don't merely know one another. According to Rise of the Guardians, Mr. North Pole, Ms. Molar, and the Rabbit are in league with Sandman and relative newcomer Jack Frost to protect and serve the imaginations of children everywhere.
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Tonight: Honor for The Voice at the Kimmel Center
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You hear James Earl Jones before you see him, as it should be. The oceanic rumble of his familiar bass announces his arrival at Gabriel's, the cozy brasserie near Lincoln Center.
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Video-game villain looks for respect in 'Wreck-It Ralph'
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Carrie Rickey: Ralph isn't a villain, but he plays one in a 1980s-era video game. It's called Fix-It Felix, Jr. Note who gets the game's star billing.
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Cine-storms: Films in which rain takes a role
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On the Jersey Shore, there are generally two kinds of storms: the punishing ones that leave destruction in their wake, and the purifying ones that scour souls as well as beaches.
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