Movie Review | 'The Nativity Story': The Virgin Mary as a Teenager With Worries
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Directed by Catherine Hardwicke from a script by Mike Rich, "The Nativity Story" sticks to the familiar details of the narrative and dramatizes them with sincerity and good taste.
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The "Lemony Snicket" film may be scary, but it has important life lessons on danger and achieving adulthood.
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Kim Basinger often gives the impression of a beautiful woman who has known, and expects, great torment. She could have soulfully played either Mary in &quot;The Passion of the Christ,&quot; but her career is crucifixion enough.
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Woody Allen's latest film touches on all the things he likes to ponder Â that there's no God, that life is savage and fleeting, that anyone potentially can get away with unspeakable acts if they don't have a conscience to bother them.
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(G). On Christmas Eve, a boy on the cusp of his Santa Claus Crisis takes the fast train to the North Pole. Based on a modern classic, the film boasts far more technology than charm.
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An Italian school's substitution of a  Nativity play with Little Red Riding Hood so as not to offend  Muslim children has raised the Vatican's ire and sparked debate  on how much traditions should change to accommodate immigrants.
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Never one to shrink from  criticism, Pope John Paul is again putting controversial  figures on the road to sainthood, including Austria's last  emperor and a mystic nun who inspired Mel Gibson's film on  Christ's passion.
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The film is akin to an American high school drama staged in Marie Antoinette's French quarters for teenage girls.
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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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The distinct voice of a novice screenwriter lifts this heartwarming tale of a teen pregnancy.
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Mel Gibson&#39;s &quot;The Passion of the Christ,&quot; which is being released on DVD on Tuesday, has caused many valid reactions: religious inspiration, charges of anti-Semitism, nausea at the violence
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"The Nativity Story," a Hollywood  movie of the story of Mary and Joseph before the birth of  Jesus, had its world premiere at the Vatican on Sunday and won  strong praise from the man known as the "deputy pope."
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An Italian school's substitution of a Nativity play with Little Red Riding Hood so as not to offend Muslim children has raised the Vatican's ire and sparked debate on how much traditions should change to accommodate immigrants.
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Any TV film with a cast including Susan Sarandon, Alan Arkin, Penelope Cruz and Robin Williams is worth a look. That certainly goes for "Noel," a multi-stranded holiday yarn that isn't afraid to tug at the heartstrings, but does it in often unexpected ways.
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The film is interesting, but does not probe deep.
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&#39;MAN IS WHAT he believes,&quot; wrote Russian playwright Anton Chekhov at the end of the 19th century. And every Christmas movie has been beating that idea into the ground ever since.
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The Golden Compass comes to the screen, cleansed of theology, but with a few jaw-dropping moments