Review: Carell's `Dan' contrives love
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If you're already groaning at the prospect of spending time with your own lovable but annoying family over the holidays, think twice about seeing "Dan in Real Life." Do you really want to donate time and money to hang with someone else's annoying relations?
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Daniel Day-Lewis paid an emotional tribute to Heath Ledger during a taped appearance on Oprah Winfrey's talk show.
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Having tapped into reserves of great love or shocking hubris, the Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira revisits Luis BuÃ±uelâs classic with âBelle Toujours.â
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Will TV audiences love "I Love Faron Hitchman"? Will they even get a chance to find out?
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This sweet-natured coming-of-age story manages a neat trick in our increasingly ``edge&#39;&#39;-obsessed television world: It&#39;s old-fashioned without seeming irrelevant.
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An average romantic comedy, starring Will Smith and Eva Mendes, that is as soft and sweet as a marshmallow, and about as interesting.
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HBOâs âTell Me You Love Meâ is bold, but not brave in its sexual and emotional content, while âCurb Your Enthusiasmâ remains as warped and bracing as ever.
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Damien Atkinsâs occasionally provocative drama is about a mother who must learn how to take care of her autistic daughter.
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By Alan Pergament  It is deja vu all over again. Many of the pilots for the new television season -- especially on NBC and ABC -- are so good, that I'm having a "Lost"-like flashback to my first year as a television critic.
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NBCâs show, which is more about fembot martial arts and slick âMatrixâ-ish special effects than about character development, is oriented toward young male viewers. There is no such excuse for ABCâs âPrivate Practice.â
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The new season of ÂNip/TuckÂ tries to restore the showÂs balance of farce and melodrama, charting the full range of human vanities to produce humor and pathos in equal measure, not merely a freak show.
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Rhys Ifans plays the part of the scorned lover with neurasthenic delicacy and a spidery creepiness in this serious movie about the petty cruelties of love.
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In âFreedom Writersâ Hilary Swank uses neediness to fine effect in a film with a strong emotional tug and smartly laid foundation.
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Love is a many-faceted, if not splendored, thing in the romantic comedy set on the tennis courts of Wimbledon. The movie is about a love match between a pair of lanky racket-wielding
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âLongingâ intrigues because it presents an outwardly decent man falling equally in love with two women but eschews simplistic judgments.
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Love is at the core of this mini-series about the 1977 New York Yankees, and as in any good drama, so are envy, deception, hatred and humiliation.
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In the case of Doris  Duke and Bernard Lafferty, little is known but much is  imagined. Thanks to the part that is imagined, HBO's "Bernard  and Doris" emerges as a sensitive study of two forlorn souls  with little in common but a growing dependence on each other.