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Aliens and strangers

District 9 succeeds as metaphor more than as smash-em-up action film

Gorgeous animation, wonderful characters highlight Ponyo

Film has colorful flourishes but wastes its talented cast

Jews take on Nazis in ultraviolent revenge fantasy


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Charylne Yi's film, like her film persona, is painfully awkward

Meryl Streep's grand depiction of cooking icon Child dominates Julie and Julia

This box office takes all the action out of action figures

Cold Souls probes human existence-and makes it fun

The half-baked plot of The Answer Man meanders to an unsatisfying finish

G-Force emphasis is on spectacle instead of story