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Film Review: "Dear John " |
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Film Review: "From Paris With Love" |
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What happens when a genuinely dear John gets a Dear John? For the answer, just meander—no need for running or walking—to your local multiplex. That's where "Dear John," based on the Nicholas Sparks novel of the same name, will be meandering on its downward path from sweetly tender to terminally turgid. The story begins in the spring of 2001, when a hunky boy meets a golden girl... is no...
Be forewarned that the title of "From Paris With Love" is ironic. Weapons are the only love objects in this action-comedy of chaos (long on the chaotic action, short on the comedy). John Travolta is Charlie Wax, a loose cannon—and later a loose bazooka—who's a special agent of the CIA. Jonathan Rhys Meyers is James Reese, a low-level CIA operative who works out of the American...Blog's Other Stuff:
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