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Rent Movie.com movie reviews presents Final Fantasy VII Advent Children movie review a 2005 film starring Takahiro Sakurai, Maaya Sakamoto and directed by Takeshi Nozue The question facing any viewer of the Japanese CG feature Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is: do you have to know the games on which it’s based in order to understand the film? And the answer is: it certainly helps. But even complete novices (i.e., most parents) in the Final Fantasy world will find some entertainment in its wealth of fantasy-based action, and the animation never fails to astonish. Read all movie reviews

    

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Rent Movie.com movie reviews presents Material Girls Movie Review a 2006 film starring Hilary Duff, Haylie Duff and directed by Martha Coolidge It’s A Short Trip From The Penthouse To The Poorhouse. Two wealthy sisters, both heiresses to their family’s cosmetics fortune, are given a wake-up call when a scandal and ensuing investigation strip them of their wealth. Glamour girls Hilary and Haylie Duff (featured in Lizzie McGuire and 7th Heaven, respectively) star as cosmetic heiresses Ava and Tanzie Marchetta, whose lives get turned upside down when their deceased father’s company is accused of selling toxic products. Wouldn’t you know it, Ava and Tanzie decide to go all Erin Brockovich and investigate. Material Girls should be awful–but it isn’t. It’s not a great film, it may not even be a good film, but it’s more watchable than it has any right to be, thanks to the confident and thoughtful guiding hand of director Martha Coolidge (Rambling Rose, Valley Girl). It’s hard to say exactly how a director can keep something like Material Girls from being as insipid as, say, New York Minute. Coolidge injects some hint of awareness of what it actually means to be poor, casts some surprising actors (like Anjelica Huston, Prizzi’s Honor; Brent Spiner, Star Trek: The Next Generation; and Lukas Haas, Brick), and somehow makes the Marchetta sisters both vapid and sympathetic–all of which is some impressive cinematic alchemy. The result is the most enjoyable film of Hilary Duff’s career. –Bret Fetzer

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