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Traveling Pants vs. Boxer ShortsThe critics on a new chick flick (and it isn't the one with Cinderella in the title).

Posted Friday, June 3, 2005, at 3:43 PM ET

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In this week's audio-only Summary Judgment, writer Mark Jordan Legan sums up how the critics feel about three new releases: Lords of Dogtown, a docudrama about the skateboarders who launched a craze in 1970s Venice, Calif.; Cinderella Man, another mostly true story starring Russell Crowe as 1930s boxer Jim Braddock; and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, based on a popular young-adult book about four girls who stay connected by a pair of jeans that magically fits all of them.

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