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The Bride Is Frankenstein The critics on Corpse Bride and other new movies.

Posted Friday, Sept. 23, 2005, at 2:33 PM ET

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In this week's audio-only Summary Judgment, Mark Jordan Legan sums up how the critics feel about three new releases: Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, a stop-motion-animated movie featuring the voices of Burton regulars Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter; Roll Bounce, about the roller-disco craze of the 1970s; and Flightplan, in which Jodie Foster loses her young daughter aboard an airliner in flight.

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