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Despite the great songs and story, Disney’s star-studded Beauty and the Beast is uninspired

Joyce Glasser reviews Beauty and the Beast (March 17, 2017) Cert PG, 129 min. It might have been the success of Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella (which grossed $543 million on a budget of $95 million) tha ...

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Will Bridget Jones marry the father of her child?

Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs BRIDGET JONES’S BABY (StudioCanal). Bridget Jones is back and now well into her 40s. She has two drunken one night stands and finds herself pregnant and uncertai ...

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Light-hearted entertainment in an adaptation of Bill Bryson’s memoir

Joyce Glasser reviews A Walk in the Woods (September 18, 2015) Cert. 15, 102 min. The opening scene in A Walk in the Woods, directed by Ken Kwapis (the likeable Big Miracle and the vacuous, He’s Just ...

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I wonder what John Ruskin said when he heard Effie Gray was taking him to the divorce court?

Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs EFFIE GRAY (Metrodome). Costume drama is Britain’s forte and Emma Thompson’s sensitive adapation is a very tasteful account of a notorious Victorian scandal that ...

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