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Mon Oncle Antoine * * *, 1971, '72, in USA, Criterion, unrated, $40

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Often topping critics' polls to determine the best Canadian film of all time, actor/director Claude Jutra's mostly placid portrayal of male adolescence is set in a rural Quebec general store/funeral parlor long before teen attention spans could be soothed by electronics. So how does Benoit (Jacques Gagnon) occupy himself? Well, there's a comely peer also being raised by his aunt and uncle, plus the spied-upon sight of the notary's wife trying on seductive bedware in the changing room. There also is life's natural disillusionment to contend with: auntie is fooling around with an employee (played by Jutra), and uncle is such a lush that he even screws up one of his burials. Very easy to take but hardly of "best" caliber.

Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns * 1/2, 2008, Lionsgate, PG-13, $30

Turning 50 next month, Angela Bassett looks two decades younger, so she's a better bet than viewers to survive this movie. Mom to a jock son who looks roughly her age as well as two younger daughters, Chicagoan Bassett visits Georgia kin for a will reading, taking up with a long-in-debt Mr. Right who somehow has thousands to burn. Perry's bizarre screen mish-mashes of drama and burlesque had been improving, but it's apt that this one has a character named Leroy Brown because it's bad … bad. In a cameo, Perry shoehorns in his familiar female Madea character, but even in Euripides' Medea, he'd still find a way to get himself into drag.

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•Sleepwalking (* *; 2008, Anchor Bay, R, $30): A monotonal bummer with a notable cast. A loser (Charlize Theron, who also co-produced) leaves a daughter (AnnaSophia Robb) with a brother/uncle (Nick Stahl, again looking in need of three weeks at the health farm). Nothing untoward happens, but there's misery enough when the latter two end up at the ranch of his father (Dennis Hopper, rivaling his "Blue Velvet" nastiness). Woody Harrelson rounds out a cast that makes you wonder how so many names can be corralled for a movie that will be automatically DOA.