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By Daniel Neman, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va. Mar. 1--If you look at a mirror too long, you're bound to find a flaw. Perhaps one side of your face is longer than the other, or your eyebrows are too full. Even Michelle Pfeiffer thinks she looks like a duck.

By DAVID GERMAIN Penelope (PG) HHH 1/2 No offense intended, but a pig snout is very becoming on Christina Ricci. The actress is lovably adorable in the adorably lovable "Penelope," a fairy-tale romance that's a perfect mix of Ricci's oddball sensibilities and her inherent sweetness.

By Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times Feb. 29--"Penelope," a sweetly offbeat fairy tale from director Mark Palansky and screenwriter Leslie Caveny, has been sitting on the shelf since its completion in 2006, and for the life of me I can't imagine why.

By Michael Sragow, The Baltimore Sun Feb. 29--Penelope stars Christina Ricci as Penelope Wilhern, a blue-blood born with a pig's snout because of a curse put on the Wilhern clan when it refused to let one of her 19th-century forebears marry a servant girl.