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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.
Submarine is a jaunty coming-of-age comedy set in Swansea, Wales, in the Neolithic era of the 1980s. It charts the course of Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts) as the 15-year-old surfaces from the acute self-consciousness of adolescence to a new awareness of family and schoolmates.
- Video: Beginners
How often do you see a story about a grumpy young man and his frisky father? Beginners, Mike Mills' captivating film, centers on an emo son, his buoyant dad, their romantic partners, and a most philosophical Jack Russell terrier. It's a movie about untangling roots in order to grow.
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Super 8
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Carrie Rickey: Super 8 is a model of recycling. Its director, JJ Abrams, salvages the best parts from Steven Spielberg blockbusters. Because Abrams likes his melancholy characters and lets them be awestruck and aw-shucks, it works.
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Beautiful Boy
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Kate and Bill (Maria Bello and Michael Sheen) are a couple whose marriage is running on fumes. They've been together twenty-odd years and have a son, Sammy (Kyle Gallner), at college. They have separate lives and sleep in separate bedrooms.
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Spork
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Reimagine Napoleon Dynamiteas an episode of Glee set in a racially polarized middle school. Now you get the jiggy vibe of Spork, a potty and potty-mouthed junior-high school musical that is by turns both energetic and slack.
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Midnight in Paris
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Midnight in Paris is a lark, a souffle, a delightful shaggy-dog story with Owen Wilson as its shaggy hero. What's Wilson doing in a Woody Allen movie about a B-list screenwriter who time-travels from the present to the Jazz Age? Disarming the audience with his wistful joie de vivre, that's what.
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L'Amour Fou (Mad Love)
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From his "trapeze," an A-line dress that moved like a celestial swing, to his sleek women's pantsuit that feminized men's style, Yves Saint Laurent was a singular talent who transformed 20th-century fashion.
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The Hangover, Part II
- The plot and characters are much the same. Gone is the rush you get from the unexpected.Carrie Rickey: For one who overimbibes, the recommended morning-after remedy is a hair of the dog that bit him - just a wee nip. Rather than just a hair, The Hangover, Part II chugs the whole, furry pooch.
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