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The Passion for the Christ

The film tapped into the interest of local churches, and the video release is using the same strategy

The movie misses novelist William Makespeace Thackeray's insights into vanity

This prequel goes purely for shock value, relying on nearly pornographic violence and disgusting special effects

With surprisingly few monster-in-the-closet moments, the filmmakers rely instead on a sense of inevitable doom


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The understandable appeal of the sequel to the 2001 hit doesn't give it a pass on some serious faults

The film speaks with the power of general revelation but doesn't go far enough to be truly profound

Collateral is a film about men with guns that not unexpectedly wants to trade in philosophy as well

A hit at last year's Sundance Film Festival, this is one of the oddest, goofiest movies to hit theaters in quite some time

In The Manchurian Candidate remake, American corporations are the villains

The Village will disappoint many in the audience