'A Christmas Carol': Jim Carrey is everywhere, but the humor is not
'A Christmas Carol' is stingy with comic actor's playfulness, but the animation makes the movie
By Roger Moore The Orlando Sentinel
The new Disney A Christmas Carol is another epic achievement in motion-capture animation, advancing the art form closer to photo-realism than The Polar Express or Beowulf. Dazzling, ornate visuals take us to the snowy London of 1837, swooping over its digital rooftops and down its digital chimneys. Faces take on musculature, expression and detail.
'The Box': There's nothing in it
By David Germain Associated Press
Cameron Diaz and James Marsden have a terrible moral dilemma in Richard Kelly's The Box: Press a button on a mysterious container, they'll get $1 million, and someone they don't know will die.
'The Men Who Stare at Goats': Clooney plays goofy
By Roger Moore The Orlando Sentinel
"Wacky" isn't George Clooney's strong suit as an actor. But it's always at least amusing to watch the suave, silky leading man from Kentucky let his freak flag fly.
'Coco Before Chanel': Biopic has style and substance
By Carrie Rickey The Philadelphia Inquirer
At the turn of the 20th century, French women of style were gilded peacocks festooned with jewels, gaudy things cinched so tightly at the waist that they could not breathe, teetering on claw feet.
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