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  • 13 Going On 30 (2004)
    Review preview for 13 Going On 30

    The sheer predictability of the plot means it doesn't really stand up to the scrutiny of anyone older than 15.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    Age swop rom-com, as a feisty 13-year-old high school girl goes Big and wakes up as a man-eating magazine executive.
  • Bride Wars (2009)
    Review preview for Bride Wars

    With a title like this you know pretty much what to expect.

    Val Kermode · 2 out of 5
    Best friends become bitter enemies after inadvertently scheduling their weddings for the same day.
  • Charlotte's Web (2006)
    Review preview for Charlotte's Web

    What is astounding, is the restraint shown by director Gary Winick - nothing takes us from the quiet rural life of America in the Forties.

    Stephanie Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    The farmer's daughter and a talkative spider try to save the life of the smallest piglet in the barn.
  • Letters To Juliet (2010)
    Review preview for Letters To Juliet

    Christopher Egan's achingly bad condescension to Hollywood's stupidest stereotype of the Englishman would be better suited to a Zucker brothers parody.

    Jennie Kermode · 1.5 out of 5
    A romantic young American becomes determined to help an ageing Englishwoman find her long lost love in Italy.
  • Tadpole (2002)
    Review preview for Tadpole

    It has little teen humour, with the majority of the cast unlikely to see 40 again, and there is not enough plot substance to constitute an incentive for the older crowd.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    A boy falls for his stepmother in this coming of age comedy.

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