During the course of the half-dozen years it has taken Doug Atchison's "Akeelah and the Bee" to go from script to screen, that old schoolhouse standby

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They hide these things for a reason, folks. Apparently sensing that the nation's film critics would collectively not appreciate the subtle, understated

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Inside Man" is the dull title of a crackerjack crime thriller that also is the most commercial movie Spike Lee has directed. Everything clicks. It has