Actors can&#39;t overcome creepy premise in &#39;Birth&#39;
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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 animated children&#39;s holiday film &quot;The Polar Express&quot; is a creepy movie anyway, and the creepiest part is the way it depicts the North Pole.
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BASED SIMPLY ON its tired premise and atmosphere, &quot;The Forgotten&quot; should be every bit as forgettable as its name. With so many elements - from its chilly autumnal setting to the
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This year there seem to be more movies than usual that, whether or not they intend to provoke fear, take fear as their subject.
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A 17th century "Star is Born," though with interestingly convoluted sexual politics and a provocative historical thesis.
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A superb Romanian film gives a creepy twist to Hollywood's unwanted-pregnancy comedies
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Two very different roads to the past are being traveled by two very different actresses in this mildly entertaining, maddeningly disjunctive revival.
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Comment is free: Gary Younge: Blair could have played midwife to a confident, inclusive, hybrid sense of Britishness - but instead, he sought to strangle it at birth.
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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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&quot;Closer&quot; must be an ironic title, since its vibes are consistently and often smugly alienating. Nevertheless, Patrick Marber&#39;s play, now adapted by the author for director Mike Nichols, has
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Despite a high body count, shock cuts and loud noises, this prequel to William Friedkin's 1973 horror film fails to deliver any palpable shivers.
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Nicole Kidman is under attack from all sides as her controversial movie &quot;BIRTH&quot; opens at the Venice Film Festival. A published report says when Kidman was described by a TV interviewer as &quot;a legend,&quot; her co
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Jonathan Glazer&#39;s first film was the hip Sexy Beast in 2001, about British gangsters scheming in Spain. His second film is Birth, in which Nicole Kidman plays a woman who believes her dead husband is inhabiting a 10-year-old&#39;s body.
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If the measure of a movie&#39;s realism lies in its ability to make you physically uncomfortable, Closer is about as real as it gets.
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Desperate to propel a plot when chemistry doesn&#39;t work, this sequel puts its heroine through the wringer. Female viewers may feel similarly abused.
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Birth presents an intriguing premise about death and the possibility of rebirth in an elegant, melancholy and deliberate fashion. (Related video: Watch the Birth trailer).
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As a rule, nightmares don&#39;t usually make much sense. That&#39;s important to keep in mind when watching &quot;The Grudge,&quot; a flamboyantly weird concoction from director Takashi Shimizu, who previously