Best paragraph from a movie review this year (Manohla
Dargis, NY Times, on "Extremely Loud a& Incredibly Close".)
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Black Stallion *
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BIG *
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Babe *
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Princess Bride
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Peewee's Big Adventure *
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Home Alone
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Sister Act
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Night at the Opera (Marx Brothers) *
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Duck Soup (Marx Brothers)
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The Kid (Charlie Chaplin) *
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Yearling *
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Yellow Submarine (Beatles Animation) *
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Rescuers Down Under
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The Great Race
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Honey I Shrunk the Kids
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ET The Extra Terrestrial
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Swiss Family Robinson
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Radio Flyer (perhaps scary)
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How to Train Your Dragon (I haven't seen it actually, but very good
reviews)
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Jumanji (a bit scary)
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Coraline (animated, may be a bit scary) *
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James and the Giant Peach (Roald Dahl story)
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Rango
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Fantastic Mr. Fox *
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Spirited Away (Japanese Anime, beautiful story) *
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Howl's Moving Castle
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Ponyo (animated)
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Despicable Me (animated) *
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Apollo 13
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Back to the Future *
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Bad News Bears
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Duck Soup (Marx Brothers)
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Fiddler on the Roof (a bit long winded)
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Gold Rush (Chaplin)
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National Velvet
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Chicken Run
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Hard Day's Night (Beatles) *
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Help (Beatles) *
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Wall-E
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Wallace and Gromit: the Curse of the Were Rabbit
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Ratatouille *
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Iron Giant
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Bugsy Malone (unusual children's version of a gangster story)
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Winged Migration
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Nightmare Before Christmas
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Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the original, 1971)
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Whale Rider
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Up
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How to Train Your Dragon (so I keep hearing: haven't seen it myself)
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The Camera Man (Buster Keaton)
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The General (Buster Keaton)
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City Lights (Chaplin)
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Polar Express (Christmas)
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Zathura (similar to Jumanjii, also by Chris Van Allsburg)
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Miracle on 34th Street (the original, from 1954 NOT the remake;
actually a pretty good children's movie)
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