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karatiz

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I loved this movie from the first second, Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are great in here.
Sally and Gilly, two different sister. I can't even describe how much this movie means to me, I can't tell how many times I saw it!! Just love...
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I loved this movie from the first second, Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are great in here.
Sally and Gilly, two different sister. I can't even describe how much this movie means to me, I can't tell how many times I saw it!! Just love it!!!
Please watch it and you will love it too.

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Posted mar 12, 2008 5:23 am pt

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Wow, I love this movie. At first I didn't expect ir to be good, and just watch it for the actresses involved. I was marveled when I saw it. It's a magical combination between witches and love. I highly recommend it.

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Posted jan 28, 2008 12:27 am pt

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Two sisters born of an old witching family. One a wild red head, living life on the edge, the hopeless romantic. The other the brunette pragmatist, and lover scorn, due to the undercurrent of magic around her.
This is a romantic comedy of...
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Two sisters born of an old witching family. One a wild red head, living life on the edge, the hopeless romantic. The other the brunette pragmatist, and lover scorn, due to the undercurrent of magic around her.
This is a romantic comedy of sorts, in the vein of other Sandra vehicles (Ya-ya is a good example or even Hope floats) where the old Aunts offer most of the comedy while the younger generation gets to experience the insanity of being alive.
This is a story of hope really, and the quest for that perfect love. It's quaint, it's cute. It's everything you want a soft love story to be. And it's got some magic in it. And it's got a crime / mystery feel to it. And, it's got the crazy red-headed sister. What more could you ask for?

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Posted mar 15, 2007 7:01 am pt

NoOneIsAlone

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Strange movie, that looks more of like supernatural thing, but ends up being more of like a romantic, comedy movie rather than something that has to do a lot with witches and potions and all those kind of things. It was not something very well...
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Strange movie, that looks more of like supernatural thing, but ends up being more of like a romantic, comedy movie rather than something that has to do a lot with witches and potions and all those kind of things. It was not something very well above average, and to be honest I think that it was a little boring.

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Posted mar 12, 2007 8:21 am pt

• [+] LA Weekly
  
  90
  Dunne is committed, thank good-ness, unapologetic for even the most fluttery sentiment or spookiest chill, enjoying the swellness of the very idea almost as much as any fanciful girl.

  by Hazel-Dawn Dumpert | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  80
  Based on Alice Hoffman's fanciful novel and directed with go-for-broke prettiness by Griffin Dunne, Practical Magic is nothing but a guilty pleasure.

  by Elvis Mitchell | Read Full Review »
• [+] Christian Science Monitor
  
  75
  Lively acting, eye-catching cinematography, and funny dialogue lift this fantasy a notch above the average until love-story cliches and horror-movie shocks bog it down.

  by David Sterritt | Read Full Review »
• [+] Salon.com
  
  70
  Like the rest of this new breed of witch story, it's about sisterhood instead of the supreme allure of housewifery, but like all too many witch movies (old and new), it's really just a self-congratulatory paean to banality and shrunken horizons.

  by Laura Miller | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  70
  Though its startling shifts in tone sometimes seem unmotivated, this dark yet syrupy 1998 romance has an adolescent charm.

  by Lisa Alspector | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
  63
  Unfortunately, like far too many films, this one gives up the ghost during the last fifteen minutes, saddling an otherwise-enjoyable film with a dumb ending.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] Empire
  
  60
  It tootles along being cute and fluffy like a twentysomethings' version of Sabrina The Teenage Witch, but to further its notions of sisterhood and the power of women, it also takes a spin through Thelma And Louise territory, then revisits The Exorcist to up the supernatural content. It's enough to make your head spin.

  by Angie Errigo | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  50
  It's all swell, though after two hours of nonstop yin energy, one does begin to wish that someone like Bruce Willis might show up in a sweaty T-shirt, scratching himself.

  by Mick LaSalle | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Examiner
  
  50
  The cast and crew and screenwriters seem to have had some fun with it, and the audience, coming along for the ride, has some fun with it, too.

  by Edvins Beitiks | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  50
  It's just a little too ironic (to quote Okay Pop Singer Alanis Morrisette) that a movie with the word "magic" in its title should be such a perfect example of the difference between competence and inspiration.

  by Russell Smith | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  50
  It's not that the movie isn't fun in spots; it's just a TV-ready mix of camp and curdle.

  by Eve Zibart | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  50
  The movie doesn't seem sure what tone to adopt, veering uncertainly from horror to laughs to romance.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  50
  It just doesn't add up to anything -- or break down -- to anything special. For good or bad, there's hardly a memorable scene in it.

  by Jack Mathews | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
  40
  Its flat whimsy, VH1-ready musical montage sequences, and less-than-magic magic realism will probably not be enough to hold the attention of all but the most undiscriminating fans of witches and Stockard Channing.

  by Keith Phipps | Read Full Review »
• [+] Village Voice
  
  40
  The title is, to say the least, an understatement. Witchcraft has rarely looked more prosaic and less sexy than it does in Griffin Dunne's Practical Magic.

  by Dennis Lim | Read Full Review »