&#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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Alexander Payne&#39;s wonderful &quot;Sideways&quot; starts with a knock on one door and ends with a knock on another. The first knock is a harsh awakening into the kind of life that makes you want to stay in bed; the second
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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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While âRolling Like a Stoneâ has poignant and funny moments, itâs a serious film about mortality, success and the ephemeral nature of experience and memory.
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Director Mohit Hussain chooses a contemporary subject to narrate the story of his debut film.
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&quot;Ray,&quot; Taylor Hackford&#39;s sprawling, sensational biography/celebration of the late Ray Charles, is perfect in so many ways that it is easy to both regret and overlook the film&#39;s rather abrupt, perfunctory conclusion.
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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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It is mood music conforming to the sentimental nature of the story that sets the album apart.
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Robert Zemeckis' new film has technical wizardry but lacks heart.
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It's not without faults, but the film scores higher than its stage version
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Though the album has its moments, it's not entirely enticing.
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As the writer delves into his wretched childhood, his operation seems less like a turning point than an overcharged symbolic event. In a curious way, this only makes the story more intriguing.
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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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With Vera Drake, Mike Leigh has made a film about abortion that is neither strident nor preachy
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Certainly Sean doesn&#39;t. He&#39;s a scientist. Reincarnation is a lot of poppycock to him. It defies logic and the laws of matter.
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Boy loses girl, boy  loses sleep, boy finds new girl. The trajectory of &quot;Cashback&quot;  is boiler-plate basic, but writer-director Sean Ellis infuses  it with an imaginative sensibility that engages the viewer --  to a point. Stripped of its flourishes, there&#39;s not much going  on beyond a routine tale of growing pains, dressed up -- or  undressed -- with philosophical fillips and wet-dream fantasy.
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NASHVILLE (Billboard) - As the release of a new album  approaches, most artists begin to wax philosophical about art,  life and the messages they hope to convey with their music.