&#39;Birth&#39; stops short of finding its soul
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Birth: Drama. Starring Nicole Kidman, Danny Huston and Cameron Bright. Directed by Jonathan Glazer. (R. 100 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.
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It&#39;s not about character. There&#39;s no moral lesson. It&#39;s not even about solving a mystery, though the question of what is happening is at first haunting.
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Though the album has its moments, it's not entirely enticing.
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âWoman on the Beachâ is a bittersweet accounting of the geography of desire.
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In a wise new novel, life happens, haphazardly
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The title of the film is "Dreamgirls" but it could have been called "A Star Is Born."
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It&#39;s a pity some journalists at a large preview screening in Venice saw fit to boo Birth, the new film directed by Englishman Jonathan Glazer and starring Nicole Kidman.
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Music may still be a big force in pop culture, but the music businessâs own comeback attempt is falling flat.
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The Ol&#39; Dirty Bastard brought impressionism to rap. His rap style was a kind of scarily funny addict-talk. It verged on nonsense, but it was too familiar to be a joke.
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Joy Division&#39;s Ian Curtis never lived  to see the influence his band&#39;s legacy had on a legion of  artists, critics and music fans. The enigmatic frontman took  his life in 1980, at the age of 23, just as the British  post-punk band was on the verge of a career crescendo.
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The album&#39;s obituary was written  prematurely, a point made quite clear by the arrivals of new  ones by Kanye West, 50 Cent and Kenny Chesney.
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Thereâs a lot going on under the surface of âFeel the Noise,â far more than its indefensibly generic title suggests.
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In &quot;Birth,&quot; Nicole Kidman&#39;s Anna wears a short, severe haircut that makes her look a bit like Mia Farrow in &quot;Rosemary&#39;s Baby&quot; - or like the 10-year-old boy who shows up at Anna&#39;s Manhattan loft one night, claiming to be her dead husband.
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The sequel to the funny Meet The Parents falls short.
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The current wisdom in Hollywood tells us the musical biopic is a dead genre. With documentaries all the rage, there&#39;s just not much of an audience for an impersonation anymore, and dramatizations about the
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The starkly uneven pace of population growth between most developing and industrialized nations represents the world&#39;s major demographic fault line. The Population Reference Bureau&#39;s 2004 World Population Data Sheet demonstrates that nearly 99 percent ...
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Well-acted, beautifully shot and broad and personal, âThe Motorcycle Diariesâ is nonetheless undermined in the end by a clunky search for meaning and depth that seems