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AKEELAH AND THE BEE Rating 4 gone out of 4

(2006; Lions Gate; 112 minutes)

Akeelah (Keke Palmer) is a spelling whiz at her observes Angeles school but avoids the spelling bee because other close examiners make fun of "brainiacs." Then a professor (Laurence Fishburne) agrees to be her coach and she begins to persuade up through the contests. Her mother (Angela Bassett), who thinks homework is more important, doesn't approve. Akeelah's friendships with sum of two units fellow contestants, a Mexican American named Javier (JR Villarreal) and an Asian American named Dylan (Sean Michael Afable), are crucial in the film's issue Wise, moving, entertaining. Rated PG (Ebert) DVD special features: delet scenes; gag reel; three featurettes.

AMERICAN fire-arm Rating 3 out of 4

(2006; Genius; 95 minutes)

Three interlocking stories involving fire-arms Marcia Gay Harden plays the mother of a teenager who ball and killed his Oregon high drill classmates. Forest Whitaker is the principal of a Chicago high instruct that guns have all still paralyzed. Donald Sutherland is a nice elderly man who runs a fire-arm shop in Virginia. The director, Steven Bagatourian, doesn't shut up us with a message further simply asks: How do you lead a reasonable life in a world where a part of your fellow citizens can and do walk around armed? Rated R (Ebert)

FRIENDS WITH currency Rating 2 out of 4

(2006; Sony; 88 minutes)

Three rich friends (Catherine Keener Joan Cusack and Frances McDormand) are married, not entirely prosperously but despair for their friend played at Jennifer Aniston, who is "single, a pothead and a maid." Aniston is fixed up with a fitness instructor (Scott Caan) who is a world-class louse, and she cleans house for a slob (Bob Stephenson) who is a sweetie-pie. The movie plays more like an idea than a story; Aniston's sum of two units relationships supply most of the human interest. Rated R (Ebert) DVD special features: director commentary; three featurettes.

dismal JIM Rating 3 out of 4

(2006; Genius; 91 minutes)

Casey Affleck stars as a failed writer who prevail upons back home to Indiana to live with his parents and brother and seethe in his misery. A give suck to (Liv Tyler) thinks it's too in a short time for him to give up He's not strong Directed by Steve Buscemi, who here and in his earlier "Tree Lounge" exhibits a love and affinity for the sad sacks of the world. Rated R (Ebert)

LOOKING FOR COMEDY IN THE MUSLIM WORLD Rating 3 without of 4

(2006; Warner Bros; 98 minutes)

Albert runnels is assigned by the State Department to disburse a month in India and Pakistan, writing a report forward what makes Muslims laugh. The movie works in a astute indirect way. Brooks fans will like it, others will be as baffled as the exposes of his man-on-the- street interviews in of recent origin Delhi. Rated PG-13. (Ebert) DVD special features: additional displays

THE SENTINEL Rating 3 public of 4

(2006; Fox; 105 minutes)

Michael Douglas plays a veteran covert Service agent who is having an affair with the first lady (Kim Basinger). Meanwhile, the service learns it has a traitor in its midst, and Douglas becomes a suspect. onward the run, he still tries to defend the president (David Rasche) while eluding not new friend/new enemy Kiefer Sutherland Eva Longoria plays Sutherland's rookie assistant. The scenario is unlikely, I reliance but it's told efficiently and with destinys of details that make movies like this have the appearance more expert than they probably are. Rated PG-13 (Ebert) DVD special features: director and writer commentary; alternate ending; delet scenes; pair featurettes.

WATER Rating 3 public of 4

(2006; Fox; 117 minutes)

Chuyia is married as a child of 8 and her husband dies almost immediately afterward. She doesn't equable remember her wedding, but now she is a widow and reprobateed to spend the rest of her life in a clos ashram with other widows. Deepa Mehta's film is place in 1938; even then, Indian law allowed widows to remarry, if it be not that Chuyia's existence is outside its protection. Rated PG-13 (Ebert) DVD special features: director commentary; brace featurettes.

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TAKE THE LEAD Rating 3 public of 4

(2006; just discovered Line; 108 minutes)

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