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CAROLYN ARENDS
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Christianity Today

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Carolyn has a lot of skeletons in her movie closet. She's not particularly a fan of the Star Wars movies or even those Hobbit films (please don't tell the others, they'll roll their eyes and ostracize.) She can recite unseemly quantities of dialogue from a canon of tour bus classics like Tommy Boy, So I Married An Axe-Murderer and This Is Spinal Tap.
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"Kit Kittredge has many of the classic ingredients of a successful family tale, but it's most notable success is in the unusual themes it brings to the forefront."
Posted Jul 10, 2008
 
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)80%
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"A good-natured, entertaining romp and, in my experience, not a bad kid discussion-starter. You can't ask much more from an animated panda kung fu movie than that."
Posted Jun 6, 2008
 
Kung Fu Panda (2008)88%
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"Although much of the film is exaggerated for satirical purposes, somehow, in the eye of the farcical storm, a compelling story gets told."
Posted Feb 22, 2008
 
Charlie Bartlett (2007)55%
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"A truly entertaining film that invites viewers to contemplate the rather big idea that we're all "chosen" to be in relationship with--and obedient to--our Creator."
Posted Jun 22, 2007
 
Evan Almighty (2007)23%
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"The suits are sleek, the dialogue snappy, the tone wry, the jazz hip. Even Las Vegas--bastion of neon kitsch that it is--looks opulently graceful."
Posted Jun 20, 2007
 
Ocean's Thirteen (2007)70%
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"Its most compelling message is about the importance and power of community."
Posted May 11, 2007
 
The Hip Hop Project (2007)60%
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"Like sensible woolen socks in a ribbon-wrapped package, The Ultimate Gift may be good for you, but it's a little hard to get excited about."
Posted Mar 9, 2007
 
The Ultimate Gift (2007)32%
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"The premise will likely remind you of City Slickers. The bad news: Wild Hogs is no City Slickers."
Posted Mar 2, 2007
 
Wild Hogs (2007)15%
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"Grant and Barrymore are completely believable as a creative team, but the romantic development seems arbitrary -- or, more accurately, obligatory."
Posted Feb 14, 2007
 
Music and Lyrics (2007)63%
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"A big-hearted light-headed story that isn't as deep as it wants to be, but still manages to entertain."
Posted Jan 26, 2007
 
Catch and Release (2007)23%
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"Witherspoon delivers a full-bodied, note-perfect performance as sassy, no-nonsense June, and proves herself an able singer in the process."
Posted Nov 17, 2006
 
Walk the Line (2005)83%
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"An Unfinished Life takes us on the journey from the stifling prison of resentment to the freedom and healing of reconciliation. It's a trip worth taking."
Posted Nov 10, 2006
 
An Unfinished Life (2005)53%
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"For the jaded moviegoer, here's a little film that just might restore your faith -- in movies and a whole lot more."
Posted Oct 2, 2006
 
Saint Ralph (2005)62%
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"Despite its overly familiar plot elements and the excessive time it takes getting to its real story, Open Season has a lot going for it."
Posted Sep 29, 2006
 
Open Season (2006)47%
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"The Perfect Man, starring Hilary Duff, isn't very good. The problem is how to critique it without taking the obvious cheap shots at its likable but over-exposed young star."
Posted Sep 27, 2006
 
The Perfect Man (2005)5%
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"The film's messages -- pro-family, pro-ecology, anti-consumerism -- sometimes feel forced. But Hedge is genuinely and consistently funny, for both children and parents."
Posted Sep 27, 2006
 
Over the Hedge (2006)73%
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"Nine Lives had me tense, engaged, sometimes disgusted, sometimes moved, and always interested. Garcia is an ingenious and eloquent storyteller."
Posted Sep 27, 2006
 
Nine Lives (2005)75%
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"In all its unscripted glory, it shows us pre-adolescence with an astonishing authenticity that should be the envy of a hundred coming-of-age movies."
Posted Sep 27, 2006
 
Mad Hot Ballroom (2005)83%
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"Those who like their humor wry and dry will be rewarded by a nuanced study of the way self-absorption can keep people disconnected, be they comedians, governments, or you and me."
Posted Sep 27, 2006
 
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2006)41%
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"One of the best times I've had at the movies in a while. It's not perfect. It's not very deep. But it's a whole lot of fun and even a little moving."
Posted Sep 25, 2006
 
Just Like Heaven (2005)57%
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"Dreamer is loaded with enough clichés and formulas to choke a horse. But truly, it works."
Posted Sep 22, 2006
 
Dreamer (2005)63%
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"It lacks a good, old-fashioned story -- the fourth dimension every 3-D feature needs to be a classic."
Posted Sep 22, 2006
 
Chicken Little (2005)38%
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"Five days after screening Everyone's Hero, I'm still cringing a little, in my grown-up, jaded way, at the cute, corny, earnestness of the film."
Posted Sep 15, 2006
 
Everyone's Hero (2006)40%
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"Its heart is in the right place, but a reliance on gimmicks and sentiment undermines the story. In the end, both the laughs and the tears here come just a little too cheap. "
Posted Sep 11, 2006
 
Cheaper By the Dozen 2 (2005)6%
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"In a way, this film talks out of both sides of its mouth -- lampooning and loving its targets at the same time. But most viewers, I suspect, won't mind."
Posted Sep 8, 2006
 
American Dreamz (2006)41%
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"A good-natured, sometimes silly family fun that will play especially well with the under-13 set. "
Posted Sep 1, 2006
 
The Shaggy Dog (2006)28%
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"Fans of Altman's naturalistic style and admirers of Keillor's wit will find plenty to love in A Prairie Home Companion."
Posted Aug 25, 2006
 
A Prairie Home Companion (2006)80%

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