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	P2 Many movies have used scenes set in seemingly deserted parking garages to unnerve viewers, but this flick is set mostly inside one - underground. A New York executive leaves work late and alone and fails to start her car in said garage; unfortunately for her, a security dude turns up but doesn't live up to his job description. Positive reviews have lauded the intelligence of the heroine in the face of bloody danger - when the Hollywood cliche would have required her to make stupid mistakes every step of the way. Written and produced by the French team that made Haute Tension and the remake of The Hills Have Eyes.
	Enchanted Disney pokes fun at itself by sending one of its princesses to Times Square for a few lessons in the school of hard knocks. Lesson one: don't wear pink crinoline, puffy sleeves or glass slippers in New York City. Ok, not really. The main lesson is about love. She's already fallen in love with Prince Charming in her own world (which is why she's been banished by an evil queen). Once in this one, she falls for a divorced lawyer who lets her crash at his place (which she tidies up nicely with a CGI clean-up crew of critters). The really enchanting lessons, according to Variety, though are the emotions she learns in a world not always happily ever after, although things seem to work out well enough for her. Opens tomorrow.
	What My Eyes Have Seen Moviegoers who thought The Da Vinci Code was a bit overblown might prefer this similarly themed and visually sumptuous art-as-mystery feature about an obsessive student in France who investigates hidden meaning in works by Antoine Watteau and Gilles-Marie Oppenordt from the 18th century. Stars Sylvie Testud as the art student; Testud also played Edith Piaf's childhood friend Momone in La Vie en Rose, currently in re-release. Also known as The Vanishing Point. Opens tomorrow.
	L: Change the World This is a follow-up to Japan's popular Death Note films, in which the strange teen super-detective known as "L," who locked horns with the metaphysical vigilante of the first two episodes, embarks on an ill-fated trans-Pacific investigation. Variety magazine said the first two films invite Hollywood remakes, though their dark underbelly did not impress incensed schoolteachers in Taiwan. Parents who would fall apart if their kids came home dressed as Goths are duly warned. Based on a manga and directed by Hideo Nagata, who made the original Ringu films. Opens Saturday.

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