This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
I cannot remember the last time I left a movie as angry as I left The Last Exorcism, a film that, for the first three quarters of its running time positively purred and then, as it rounded [...]

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The machinery animating Animal Kingdom feels unfathomably epic even though the story it tells is relatively trivial. While the events it unfolds are, in the grand scheme of criminal lore, comparatively inconsequential, while you’re watching it, they feel as primal and as visceral as any of cinema’s greatest crime epics.

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The Extra Man is not a film—it is a sequence of extended personality ticks. No one in the movie remotely approximates a recognizable human being. These are not characters; they are caricatures. We do not care about any caricature nor are given reason to. Forced whimsy is still forced. And yet, as paltry and unsubstantial [...]

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Don’t be fooled by misleading advertising or even your own preconceptions. It turns out The Switch is a heck of a wonderful film.

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
My biggest fear with Eat Pray Love was that, as with so many adapted works of a more intimate, interior nature, it would be Hollywood slick, over-produced and about as subtle as a bull in a china [...]

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Dear Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, I think we should break up. It’s not you, it’s me. I admitted when we first met that I’d never read Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novel on which you’re based, but [...]

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The Expendables oozes testosterone from every pore the way stale alcohol oozes from the pores of a drunk. The film, a class reunion of some of the biggest action genre stars of the last three decades—particularly the [...]

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Get Low, a Faulknerian story of poor Southern charm, desperate grace and polished sincerity, is a character showcase for some of this country’s finest statesman actors—Robert Duvall, Bill Murray and Sissy Spacek. With names like that, does [...]

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The Other Guys is the second buddy police comedy to come out this year. But unlike the highly anticipated but roundly dismissed Kevin Smith outing, Cop Out, The Other Guys is actually, well, funny.

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