Although Fox’s The Day the Earth Stood Still remake topped the domestic box office chart, it can’t be considered a bona fide commercial hit.
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An homage to unconventional families mixed with social commentary, Charles Chaplin’s 1921 movie The Kid remains just as touching 9 decades after its release.
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Ice Cube stars in Are We Done Yet?, a godawful remake of the 1948 Cary Grant-Myrna Loy hit comedy Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House.
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Little Miss Sunshine with Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Paul Dano, Alan Arkin, Abigail Breslin, Toni Collette. ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ review: Script suffers from severe case of mad crowd-pleasing disease Much…
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Queens (2005) movie review: Fluffy but amusing and mostly well-acted gay marriage comedy. Cast: Carmen Maura, Marisa Parade and Hugo Silva.
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Julie Shles’ quietly amusing and generally well-acted Tel Aviv-set fairy tale Joy discovers magic in unexpected places.
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The dysfunctional family movie comedy Are Parents People? features cinema’s first teen star: Betty Bronson. Florence Vidor and Adolphe Menjou costar.
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A quartet of award-winning Meet the Fockers cast members waste their talent and prestige in this idiotized Ben Stiller comedy. Jay Roach directed.
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Chris and Paul Weitz’s reactionary audience-pandering comedy About a Boy (2002) stars Hugh Grant as a man who tragically discovers his inner family man.
The Family Stone: Diane Keaton and her liberal New England clan including Claire Danes and Rachel McAdams give progressives everywhere a bad name.
Isabelle Huppert and Catherine Frot are in top form as psychotic siblings in Alexandra Leclère’s humorous and unsettling Paris-set family movie Me and My Sister.