The movie misses novelist William Makespeace Thackeray&#39;s insights ...
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Devotees of novelist William Makespeace Thackeray generally don&#39;t like the film of Vanity Fair that opened on Sept. 1, despite its gorgeous cinematography, costuming, and sets.
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This stage version of Kurt Vonnegutâs antiwar 1969 masterpiece faithfully retains the novelâs pivotal moments. But woe to the spectator unfamiliar with the material.
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Director Mira Nair wants a larger audience to enjoy Thackery&#39;s &#39;banquet of a novel,&#39; writes Jay Stone. Mira Nair, who was born in India and raised in an Irish Catholic boarding school there, learned about England from books -- Shakespeare, Dickens, Blake.
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If you&#39;re a fan of Lemony Snicket and his Baudelaire orphans, you may have turned here in hopes of reading that the new movie of his first three books is perfect.
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Martin Scorsese's portrayal of aviator/billionaire/loony Howard Hughes is brilliant in places, but it fails to translate his fire and passion to the screen. By Jason Silverman.
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Heath Ledger had a key role in Terry Gilliamâs current project, âThe Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus.â
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Long gone are the days when a film held on to one story and fleshed it out through the
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The ride from Macedonia to the Hindu Kush was not quite as hard as I thought it would be. At least that was my sentiment by the time the crucial &quot;Battle for India&quot; took place in Alexander, an Oliver Stone film produced by Warner Bros.
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The star-studded &quot;Meet the Fockers,&quot; reuniting Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro in the &quot;Meet the Parents&quot; sequel and adding Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand as Stiller&#39;s
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Everyone has been wondering if the lukewarm response to Swades has dampened the Lagaan directorÂs spirits.
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In the dictionary, under the heading of Missed Opportunities and Tragic Disappointments, let us file this: In the new Bridget Jones movie, bumbling journalist Bridget&#39;s hilariously star-crossed interview with Colin Firth, a comic high point in the book
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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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Director Mira Nair&#39;s (Monsoon Wedding, Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love) modern take on William Makepeace Thackeray&#39;s 19th century novel is an intriguing, romantic and lavish feminist romp into material ambition, snobbery and class division.
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and then wraps up the film by telling you why it all matters and how you&#39;re supposed to feel, well, then that movie is flawed.
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It&#39;s hard to put a finger on what we&#39;ll miss most about Julia Child. Musicians are missed for their sentimentality, painters for their innovative creativity, writers for their forethought.
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The real-life of a murdered aspiring actress has fascinated the public for decades. Sadly, the new movie version is not nearly as compelling
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Rakht carries traces of a Ramsey film, but is worth a watch.