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The one thing that audiences have come to associate with Scarlett Johansson, a youthful sophisticate, is the discreet sizzle of sex. In films such as Girl with a Pearl Earring and Lost in Translation, she exuded an understated but potent charisma that slowly set libidos and plots alike on fire.

The Nanny Diaries, sadly, is where that sizzle turns into a damp squib: for much of the film, Johansson has no one to flirt with except a peppy five-year-old boy, and when her adult love interest finally appears you realise that she had a great deal more chemistry with the five-year-old.

Johansson's character, Annie Braddock, is a Brooklyn-born student of anthropology who - finding herself lacking ...

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