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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
The Losers is not an especially good film. But it is a frequently funny, sporadically well written and, it must be said, consistently entertaining one.

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
One of The Back-up Plan’s not-so-subtle messages is that raising children is hard, thankless, agonizing, excruciating, soul-sucking work. And then something magical and transcendent happens that makes all the pain worthwhile. As the film dragged on, the [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Last year, Zombieland came out of nowhere to be an incandescently entertaining and ferociously fun surprise. This year, it’s Kick-Ass (warning: the linked trailer is the Red Band version). Just when you think it is no longer [...]

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How often do you see a movie about which you have not a single complaint, about which you cannot find a single fault, about which you have nothing but phosphorescent praise? The Secret in Their Eyes, winner of this year’s Best Foreign Film Oscar, is such a movie.

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
It’s a Sunday night at college. You’ve just ended a long, revel-filled weekend and are falling into bed when you bolt awake, suddenly remembering your Lit professor expects a 10-page paper first thing in the morning. You [...]

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