FilmCritic entries tagged "Dakota Fanning"

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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1

by Bill Gibron on Nov 17 2011
DVD Release Date: February 7, 2012
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1

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All this for a baby? Two whole movies to celebrate something that's been hinted at and known since Stephenie Meyer first put frilly glitter-infused pen to sparkly, sticker adorned paper? That's right, the tepid Twilight Saga, the very example of the law of diminishing (or in most cases, dead) returns is taking the Harry Potter way out and offering up its inevitable endgame in a pair of preposterous efforts all centering around the offspring of Bella and Edward. Sure, we get the wedding of the weekday and a weird wish fulfillment honeymoon on an isolated Brazilian island (complete with scared, superstitious housekeeper), but in the end, it's all about getting our heroine knocked up, and the reaction everyone has to her fast gestating mutant newborn.

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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

by Norm Schrager on Jun 29 2010
DVD Release Date: December 30, 2010
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

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If you're excitedly anticipating this next chapter of the swoony Twilight series because of the franchise's supernatural love triangle, you're about to get your money's worth. Eclipse, the third film based on Stephenie Meyer's novels, will satisfy fans who thirst...... more »
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The Runaways

by Christopher Null on Mar 18 2010
DVD Release Date: July 20, 2010
The Runaways

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It's hard to remember a time when women didn't rule the music scene. Today's biggest stars seem to be invariably female, and all-girl bands like The Donnas don't even muster a raised eyebrow.It wasn't always this way.In the early '70s,...... more »
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Coraline

by Chris Cabin on Feb 8 2009
DVD Release Date: December 8, 2009
Coraline

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Remember The Nightmare Before Christmas? The holiday classic is invariably credited to its producer and story writer Tim Burton, but the film was actually directed by New Jersey native Henry Selick, an animator on Pete's Dragon and The Fox and...... more »
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Push

by David Dylan Thomas on Feb 8 2009
DVD Release Date: July 7, 2009
Push

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In the first minute of Push, a character utters a line that's all but verbatim: 'Save the cheerleader; save the world.' With the film's unapologetic intent to lift freely from Heroes and its progenitor X-Men firmly established, we're then treated...... more »
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The Secret Life of Bees

by Bill Gibron on Sep 3 2008
DVD Release Date: February 3, 2009
The Secret Life of Bees

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Caucasians, apparently, have no soul. Or heart. Or common sense. According to the movies, whenever the majority lacks a moment of personal clarity, they seek solace, advice, and sage-like wisdom from the groups they marginalized for centuries. As a result,...... more »
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Charlotte's Web

by Christopher Null on Dec 16 2006
DVD Release Date: April 3, 2007
Charlotte's Web

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That's sooooooooooooooooome Dakota Fanning! It's only a mild heresy to turn a beloved children's book and animated film into a star vehicle for the wee Miss Fanning, the go-to child actress who has become Hollywood's only A-list star under the...... more »
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Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story

by Christopher Null on Mar 27 2006
DVD Release Date: March 21, 2006
Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story

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Take Seabiscuit, remove the cussing, the drunkenness, the Depression, and all the death, and add in one prococious little blonde girl. You pretty much have Dreamer, a perfectly acceptable family film that, nonetheless, adds nothing to the genre. Heck, if...... more »
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Nine Lives

by Chris Barsanti on Oct 14 2005
DVD Release Date: February 14, 2006
Nine Lives

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A well-cast compilation film suffocating on its own self-importance, Nine Lives aims to tie together nine vastly different stories, but ends up telling hardly any of them well. The conceit of writer/director Rodrigo Garcia is to take nine vignettes, each...... more »
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War of the Worlds

by Eric Meyerson on Jul 2 2005
DVD Release Date: November 22, 2005
War of the Worlds

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Almost a century before Hollywood perfected the endless repackaging of its stories across multiple media, H.G. Wells created War of the Worlds, which freaked out audiences as a magazine series, a novel, a panic-inducing radio play, a movie, and ultimately...... more »

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