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Weekend Film Reviews

Golden Globes; Bride Wars

This is the time of the year when movie critics realize they've become seasonal workers, a lot like fruit-pickers...although real fruit doesn't get picked when the pickers know it's rotten... Bride Wars is nothing if not user-friendly -- whenever something is funny, or meant to be, the soundtrack signals the event with a helpfully puckish passage of plucked strings...

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By Joe Morgenstern • Jan 10, 2009 • 4m Listen

This is the time of the year when movie critics realize they've become seasonal workers, a lot like fruit-pickers...although real fruit doesn't get picked when the pickers know it's rotten...

Bride Wars is nothing if not user-friendly -- whenever something is funny, or meant to be, the soundtrack signals the event with a helpfully puckish passage of plucked strings...

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