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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Director Judd Apatow has made a quite different film — both narratively, stylistically and tonally — than those that recently perched him squarely among Hollywood vaulted royalty (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up). He shows much greater depth [...]

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This has been a surprising summer for a number of reasons, one of which is how dreadfully dull most of the big popcorn films have been. The other is the extraordinary ability of a handful of tiny, independent films to redeem the season utterly. These films, from Away We Go, (500) Days of Summer and [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
The Ugly Truth is two movies for the price of one, but don’t get too excited. You’re not getting twice the entertainment, just twice as ripped off. For most of its running time, it’s actually a guy’s [...]

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Once in a while a film so wonderful comes along that you want to race up the highest building you can find and bellow its greatness from the rooftops, to wake all your friends in the middle of the night just to tell them how wonderful it is. (500) Days of Summer is that film.

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
According to Newtonian physics, the universe is ruled by entropy, an unfortunate principle that states that, given enough time, any system will advance from order to disorder. Obviously no one informed the folks behind the Harry Potter [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
How you felt about Borat will largely determine how you feel about Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest punk’d fiction/documentary hybrid, Bruno. That the films are essentially identical in substance makes the comparison relevant. This film is not as [...]

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Several years ago, I listened to an enjoyable 1950’s era radio drama about an astronaut who falls prey to dementia after prolonged exposure to the solitude of living in deep space. So I very much looked forward to Moon, for all appearances a philosophical sci-fi thriller in the same vein. If Moon disappointed me on [...]

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The Hurt Locker is an extraordinarily uncomfortable movie to watch, not because it is poorly made, but because it succeeds so brilliantly at what it does — place its audience directly in the crosshairs of life in war-torn Iraq. This is one of the best Iraq war movies yet made (though it is not the [...]

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