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The Princess Diaries 2

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


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In The Manchurian Candidate remake, American corporations are the villains

The Village will disappoint many in the audience

Halle Berry's lines are so lame that she cannot even deliver the repartee ("Cat got your tongue?") without self-conscious awkwardness

Director Paul Greengrass brings a grittiness that serves as a nice contrast to overproduced action extravaganzas of recent years

Aimed at young girls, its message is mixed at best, occasionally extolling positive virtues, but mostly applying a morality that is convenient for the story and its heroine

I, Robot, "suggested" by the stories of Isaac Asimov, has the plot outline but none of the paranoia