New In Town (2009)

There are a lot of these corporate-city-slicker-ends-up-in-a-small-town comedies (Did You Hear About the Morgans?, Doc Hollywood, TV's Northern Exposure, City Slickers, etc), and lots of better ones than this harmless, not especially good one that gets by on mindless caricature and the not-very-convincing chemistry between leads Renee Zellweger and Harry Connick Jr, but it is a perfect time-waster for, say, a long-haul flight or a hangover.

★★☆☆☆

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The Iron Giant (1999)

A giant robot descends from the sky and befriends a boy in this delightful animated movie, Brad Bird's directorial debut, with a story a little bit like E.T. crossed with the 50s paranoia of, say, The Day The Earth Stood Still; it is a largely hand-drawn boys-own adventure and a refreshing break from the computer-generated polish of the Pixar-dominated contemporary animated film world.

★★★★☆

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Copycat (1995)

It tells a story of a serial killer with a completely implausible modus operandi - the copycat killer re-enacts to an impossible level of detail famous serial killer crimes of the past - but this effective thriller, one of the better ones released during the spate of hohum serial killer thrillers released after 1991s The Silence of the Lambs, stars Sigourney Weaver as an agoraphobic serial killer expert who finds herself both the hunter and the hunted as she reluctantly helps cop duo Holly Hunter and Dermot Mulroney on a difficult case.

★★★★☆

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