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The Academy plays it safe with nominations

Controversial films 'The Passion of the Christ' and 'Farenheit 9/11' won't vie for top Oscar honors

This PG-13 film is not Hoosiers: It's planted in today's urban culture rather than 1950s rural Indiana

Despite strong language and horrific violence, this film is a convicting yet uplifting entry point into the genocide that left 800,000 dead

A movie just about boxing couldn't generate this kind of attention, could it?


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Without much profound to say, the latest film by Paul Weitz doesn't register thematically

The best and worst of Hollywood's Christmas season

This imperfect but funny and touching film deserves more credit than it's likely to get

With so much more material, this Return of the King is, in effect, a different movie from the version that won 11 Oscars

While the film is in basic form a sort of thriller, it's mostly concerned with internal consequences

Sideways is a well-observed, sometimes subtle comedy-unfortunately it's also a miserable story