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Broderick and Snow are both doing their best to turn their characters into real people, but both, Amanda particularly, exist mostly as types to keep the story, such as it is, in motion. For a movie that wants to be about an emotional journey, thats no good. Though IFinding AmandaIs story reaches a reasonably satisfying conclusion, the empty characters at its center make the whole thing feel like a waste.

“Thoda Pyaar, Thoda Magic” (“A Little Love, a Little Magic”) has a buoyancy and optimism that trump the predictability of its story.

“Wall-E” breaks new ground in giving us a G-rated, computer-generated cartoon vision of our own potential extinction.

Once upon a time, in the faraway kingdom of Dor, there was magic in the air, laughter aplenty and gallons of mouthwatering soup. But an accident left the King broken-hearted, the Princess filled with longing and the townsfolk without their soup. Sunlight disappeared. The world became gray. All hope was lost in this landuntil Despereaux Tilling was born.
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In “The Last Mistress,” the director Catherine Breillat’s explorations of desire are so far from the antiseptic world of most screen depictions as to seem far out.