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Gauged strictly by the gag-factor, a more honest title might be Life as a Basement Apartment with Bad Light and a Dank Smell.

As a drama it's insipid, maudlin junk that'll have you reaching for the sick-bucket rather than the Kleenex.

There are enough glorious songs, energetically warbled by a host of modern pop stars, to keep us enthralled.

The results ... are staid, with re-creations of Paris in the Jazz Age and Hollywood in its Golden Age that are like waxworks in motion.

Paola di Florio's haunting documentary about Viola Liuzzo, a Detroit civil rights worker murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1965 Alabama, adds to the case for ripping J. Edgar Hoover's name off the FBI building in Washington.

There is altogether too much footage of daughter Mary wallowing in her mother's martyrdom.