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...mother's efforts to persuade the prettiest girl in town to have dinner with her retarded son, the lengths to which the sister goes to defend her brothers from bullies?temper the hardness the Gao children sometimes display. Gu packs his film with vivid period details: boys play hacky-sack with a flaming chestnut, a couple preserves eggs in handfuls of sticky mud, a family's supply of coal dissolves under a sudden rain. The camerawork is flawless; the takes long and sinuous...
...night of Feb. 23, a Taliban bomber sneaked through the vineyards near Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, carrying an explosive device hidden in an old cement sack. He planted his bomb by the road, primed to go off just as a U.S. convoy came rumbling past. The bomber must have thought he was on home turf. His chosen site was just a kilometer or so away from the madrasah where a one-eyed cleric named Mullah Mohammed Omar launched a movement of young religious zealots in 1994. Within two years the Taliban controlled nearly all of Afghanistan, and Omar had forged...
Harbor, who had already committed to Florida St., suffered a vicious sack and permanently damaged the already tenuous ligaments in his right knee. When Harbor’s football career was permanently ended, all eyes immediately turned to Moxon—who just happened to be reading Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five behind the covers of his playbook...
...Danny Boyle, the English director of Millions, a nimble, touching parable about the mystical visions of a boy on whom a sack of stolen money has literally fallen. (He thinks it came from heaven.) "You can't put tears in their eyes for a weepy scene," says Boyle, making his first kids' film (after the R-rated trio Trainspotting, The Beach and 28 Days Later). "You have to actually find out if they can do it. And if they can't, then you do the scene without the tears." In the department-store scene it was better, more delicate...
...best reasons to go to the movies this year and a reminder of how affecting a film can be when a magical child takes hold of it. Film people are not immune to sentiment, but they make pictures with kids because, well, they hope a sack of money will fall on them. A big project (like the Harry Potter series) can earn zillions, and even the smaller ones do O.K. Because of Winn-Dixie, about a motherless girl (AnnaSophia Robb) and her pet dog, was made for an estimated $15 million and pulled in $13 million in its Presidents...