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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.
Ever since Francis Ford Coppola abdicated the rights in 1974 after The Godfather II, no one has mastered the crime epic better than Michael Mann. It is still a source of profound [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
My Sister’s Keeper is the sort of film that requires a pre-film checklist. Overpriced soda? Check. Overpriced popcorn? Check. Pocketful of tissues? Check. Based on the book by best-selling author Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper is directed [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen actually surprised me. It was not at all as bad as I thought it was going to be.
It was far, far worse.

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I know it is not as fashionable to say this as it once was, but I love Woody Allen. After exiling himself to London and Barcelona for a handful of films, the native New Yorker has returned to his Manhattan roots where he belongs (which isn’t to say he didn’t make a couple of great [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Actor/director Harold Ramis is no Mel Brooks, though he tries in Year One, a hit-and-miss comedy that may have some wondering if we’ve already seen it all before (History of the World anyone?). Sardined full of funny [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
A friend of mine described The Proposal as a cross between the sparkling, albeit conventional Devil Wears Prada and the more recent, completely mechanical New in Town. He’s exactly right. Still, despite its less than original pedigree, [...]

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I’ve often said that we need fewer movies in which people fall in love and more in which we are introduced to characters already entrenched in devoted, complimentary relationships. Where is the movie that picks up after the romantic comedy ends? Away We Go is that movie, a beguiling dramedy both euphoric and heartbreaking. It’s [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Imagine That and its young female star have something in common: they are both adorable.

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
The original 1974 version of The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, on which this new film from director Tony Scott (Top Gun, Man on Fire) is based, is not exactly remembered as a classic. So why [...]

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Near the opening of The Hangover, four men gather on the rooftop of Caesar’s Palace, Sin City glittering like so much neon forbidden fruit below them. They are in Las Vegas to celebrate Doug’s (Justin Bartha) impending nuptials, or more accurately, see to it that his last night as a bachelor is as debauched as [...]

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