Review: 'Christmas' Hard to Survive
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Out of the mouths of puppets. A tune in the marionette parody "Team America: World Police" mocks the war epic "Pearl Harbor" and suggests its star, Ben Affleck, needs acting lessons.
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Barely a creature was stirring in primetime on Christmas Eve. And on Christmas night, more Americans were inclined to watch the Von Trapp family flee the Nazis than revisit George Bailey's classic holiday season meltdown.
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Moviegoers seeking a bit of seasonal entertainment are being offered blood and terror alongside Santa and his reindeer -- much to the horror of U.S. religious groups.
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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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Distributor Miramax isn't ready to roll out the musical on Christmas Day.
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Arts & entertainment: Stuart Jeffries investigates the phenomenon of the Christmas bestseller and wonders what this year's big successes will be
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Though occasionally successful as an animated wonder, the film is a mundane seasonal tale.
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As usual, Christmas Eve was dead at the box office and Christmas Day was extremely busy. With Christmas landing on Saturday this year, the box office took another hit adding to the woes of not having a Lord of the Rings film in the mix.
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Although strikingly faithful in their visual adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg&#39;s classic holiday tale, the makers of The Polar Express (* * Â½ out of four) have added some roller-coaster
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âThere Will Be Bloodâ may be the title of a film opening the day after Christmas, but it could be the slogan for this entire holiday season.
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&#39;Spanglish&#39; has all the trappings of a holiday movie, but it never finds a rhythm, its actors founder and it looks terrible.
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The woozy, sinking sensation this Christmas comedy produces suggests a movie slapped together after the consumption of far too many gallons of spiked eggnog.
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Renee McDonald remembers the Christmas trees of her youth: spindly, fake and out of a box. They were hard to put up, and they just didn&#39;t smell right.
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Surviving Christmas: Comedy. Starring Ben Affleck, James Gandolfini and Christina Applegate. Directed by Mike Mitchell. (PG-13. 90 minutes.
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Christmas and New Yearâs Eve can be a killer time for anyone with a potentially fatal susceptibility to stress, researchers warned today.
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Christmas can&#39;t come soon enough for the nation&#39;s retailers, but this year, it also might not come strong enough. High energy costs, rising interest rates, and consumer unease about threats
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For those tired of bleak and scary  movies this Christmas, veteran actors Jack Nicholson and Morgan  Freedman suggest an alternative.