This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
I once had an editor tell me, “When you review a movie, you should make a strong attempt to put yourself into the head of the most likely target audience,” especially prescient advice when reviewing children’s films. [...]

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Directors love to hear a theater roiling with laughter. Unless of course, they’ve just directed a horror movie called The Haunting in Connecticut. Believe it or not, Haunting just may be a funnier movie than Monsters vs. Aliens, opening on the screen next door. Which, obviously, is hardly a ringing endorsement of either film. While [...]

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This is an abridged version of a review I wrote for Christianity Today Movies. To read this review at its original source, click here.
As a rule, we critics use the word “fun” when referring to a movie that isn’t going to turn many heads and may not be all that worthy of significant attention, yet [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Knowing is the sort of movie M. Night Shyamalan wishes he was still making. Marketed as a supernatural sci-fi thriller, Knowing is something else entirely, a gorgeous, spooky, stylized doomsday enigma that utterly eclipses its largely hokey [...]

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On a second season episode of the deliriously funny How I Met Your Mother, Marshall, played by Jason Segel, is struggling with being single after losing his girlfriend of many years. Marshall decides to invite his friend [...]

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Sunshine Cleaning is a dark, slightly off-bubble dramedy powered by a sweet, sincere, oddball charm that somehow manages to strike a balance between humor and tragedy in such a way that we often don’t know whether to laugh or to cry.

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It is said that the two things you never want to see made are laws and sausages. I can think of a few other things too. In The Great Buck Howard, we are given backstage access to the life of an entertainer, and while the film, like a good performer, never reveals the tricks of [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Have you ever strolled into a modern art exhibit and found yourself standing in front of some paint splattered canvas, muttering under your breath, “Heck, I could do that!” You may have the same reaction to Disney’s [...]

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Watchmen is astonishing. It is an instant classic, a lusty, no holds barred, laser precision adaptation that throws all caution to the wind, embracing both slavish reverence and dark satire with equal dynamism. The film transcends the [...]

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