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Cheeky, original, funny, satisfyingly silly and even a bit profound, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, like Where the Wild Things Are, is a quirky delight for children and the child hopefully still residing in every adult.

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Breathtaking in the totality of its harrowing vision, The Road is an unflinching contemplation on the astonishing duality of the human animal. It imagines a future of ash where the best and worst of humanity meet in [...]

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Many people see Red Cliff as Hong Kong actioneer John Woo’s return to form. I’m not one of them. John Woo has never once made a film I’ve liked, though he has made at least one I’ve [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Werner Herzog is not a flattering director. If you want to star in a film with a director who will go out of his way to fill the screen with only your best side, only your most [...]

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Walking out of The Twilight Saga: New Moon, I was struck by the odd sensation that I was suddenly living in an alternate universe where the world was peopled by vampires and the movie we’d just seen [...]

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Inspired by Michael Lewis’ best-selling true story, The Blind Side is not the film one might expect judging solely from the marketing materials. Bearing the burden of being potentially culturally offensive and overly schmaltzy, [...]

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It is better that the world ends here, right now, this instant, in a calamitous and civilization-decimating apocalypse before anyone else has to suffer through the disaster of a disaster film that is 2012. You’ll thank me later.

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Despite its laughably pretentious title, Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire is one of the most harrowing films you will ever see, with one of the most monstrous villains in movie history. Yet it earns both a levity and a hope that somehow never feels out of place, an almost impossible balancing act [...]

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The young director Richard Kelly is as loved for his cult smash hit Donnie Darko as he is loathed for his indulgent sophomore effort Southland Tales. Based on “Button, Button,” a short story by the fantasy writer Richard Matheson (I Am Legend) as well as an episode of The Twilight Zone, The Box is a [...]

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I confess I walked into Disney’s A Christmas Carol with a stern message for Robert Zemeckis: “Put down the digital crayons and start making big boy movies again!” The director of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Back to the Future, Contact and Forrest Gump, Zemeckis’ career has taken a very different course over the past several [...]

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