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THE LIZZIE MAGUIRE MOVIE
DIRECTOR: Jim Fall
CAST: Hilary Duff, Adam Lamberg, Hallie Todd, Robert Carradine, Jake Thomas, Ashlie Brillault, Clayton Snyder, Alex Borstein, Yani Gellman, Brendan Kelly
SYNOPSIS: The Disney Channel dream girl (Duff) goes to Rome, where she falls in love with a pop singer and becomes his duet partner.
WHAT WE SAID: St. Petersburg Times correspondent Philip Booth gave the film a C+ in May, saying "the sweet innocence of the title character is all there is to recommend about The Lizzie McGuire Movie."
MPAA RATING: PG for mild mature themes
RUNNING TIME: 90 min.
DVD FEATURES: In the Recording Studio with Hilary, Why Not music video, Lizzie's Roman Adventure behind-the-scenes, Roamin' Volare music video, deleted scenes, an alternate ending, available in widescreen.
CRADLE 2 THE GRAVE
DIRECTOR: Andrzej Bartowiak
CAST: Jet Li, DMX, Anthony Anderson, Mark Dacascos, Tom Arnold, Kelly Hu, Gabrielle Union
SYNOPSIS: A high-tech thief (DMX) and a martial arts master (Li) combine forces to save a kidnapped child and rare black diamonds.
WHAT WE SAID: Times film critic Steve Persall didn't give this film a grade "because I realized the futility of a serious review halfway through and walked out. Such movies are commonly offered on home video, rented by people who don't care about plot, dialogue or acting as long as somebody gets roughed up or sexed up along the way."
MPAA RATING: R for violence, profanity, sexual content
RUNNING TIME: 100 min.
DVD FEATURES: Available in widescreen.
HEAD OF STATE
DIRECTOR: Chris Rock
CAST: Chris Rock, Bernie Mac, Lynne Whitfield, Dylan Baker, Nick Searcy, Tamala Jones, Robin Givens, Tracy Morgan
SYNOPSIS: Rock takes his first shot at directing a movie, and he also plays a Washington, D.C., alderman pressed into running for president. Mac steals the show as his bail-bond brother and running mate.
WHAT WE SAID: Persall said the film played like a Chris Rock stand-up routine and "would make a terrific 15-minute set. It's the other 75 minutes of clumsy cinematic bridges between the gags making it disappointing." He gave it a C.
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for profanity, brief sexuality, drug references
RUNNING TIME: 93 min.
DVD FEATURES: Available in widescreen.
THE HUNTED
DIRECTOR: William Friedkin
CAST: Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio Del Toro, Connie Nielsen
SYNOPSIS: Oscar winners Jones (The Fugitive) and Del Toro (Traffic) are pitted against each other, playing a military special operations trainer and his best deadly pupil.
WHAT WE SAID: Persall gave the film a C. "The plot devised by three screenwriters never progresses beyond the hook presented in preview trailers: a manhunt in which a professional death instructor tracks down his best pupil."
MPAA RATING: R for violence, profanity
RUNNING TIME: 98 min.
DVD FEATURES: Theatrical trailers, commentary by Friedkin, four documentaries on the making of The Hunted, deleted scenes, available in widescreen.
HE LOVES ME, HE LOVES ME NOT
DIRECTOR: Laetitia Colombani
CAST: Audrey Tautou, Samuel Le Bihan, Isabelle Carr, Clment Sibony, Sophie Guillemin, Eric Savin
SYNOPSIS: Tautou (Amelie) stars as a student romantically obsessed with a married doctor, taking her passion to an unsettling degree. French with English subtitles.
WHAT WE SAID: The Times did not review this film. Michael O'Sullivan of the Washington Post called the film "a very clever psychological thriller."
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for mature themes
RUNNING TIME: 92 min.
DVD FEATURES: Theatrical trailers, widescreen format.
HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES
DIRECTOR: Rob Zombie
CAST: Karen Black, Chris Hardwick, Bill Moseley, Sid Haig, Michael J. Pollard, Sheri Moon, Jeanne Carmen, Chris Hardwick, Chuck Aronberg
SYNOPSIS: Shock-rocker Rob Zombie makes his debut as a film director with a gruesome tale of lost teenagers evading a butcher.
WHAT WE SAID: The Times did not review this film.
MPAA RATING: R for sadistic violence and gore, sexuality and language
RUNNING TIME: 88 min.
A SONG FOR MARTIN
DIRECTOR: Bille August
CAST: Sven Wollter, Viveka Seldahl, Reine Brynolfsson, Linda Kallgren, Lisa Werlinder, Peter Engman, Klas Dahlstedt, Lo Wahl, Kristina Tornqvist
SYNOPSIS: A composer and concertmaster fall in love, divorce their spouses and live happily until Alzheimer's disease changes his personality and their relationship. Danish with English subtitles.
WHAT WE SAID: The Times did not review this film.
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sexuality, mature themes and language
RUNNING TIME: 117 min.