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All in all, it is, to borrow the old bunkhouse cliche, a rattling good yarn, even if it is all surface, no subtext. Whether there was some larger meaning in director Thornton's original cut--said to have been close to four hours long--is impossible to say, at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Twelve Films Of Christmas | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

And relentless predictability. Vianne always knows, and we always know, what effect her concoctions will have on her customers. They always shake off their repressions and troubles at precisely the right inspirational moment. Dench's character even manages to die just when she should, with her life's work neatly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Twelve Films Of Christmas | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

Galper called Palmer-Sherman "a very devoted person to her religion, and her family, and her friends and boyfriend," Galper said. "It may be a little cliche, but...she would brighten a whole room up."

Author: By Joseph P. Flood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Junior Remains In Critical Condition | 12/19/2000 | See Source »

However falsified it may now be, however much of a cliche it may have been even at the dawn of the 20th century, there's no doubt about the Edenic promise of California to generation after generation of Americans. To the gold seekers of 1850 no less than to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Flawed Ex-Paradise | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

All right, the sequence is a cliche. But it is well executed by director Martin Campbell (The Mark of Zorro). Thereafter, though, Vertical Limit consists mainly of variations on a theme. If your tolerance for seeing lots of people hanging by their fingertips from icy cliffs is high, you may...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Free Fall | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

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