Most animated films are made for kids but contain just enough smarts to entertain adults. Rango is made for adults and contains just enough fun to entertain kids. Rango, which just may be the most beautiful and certainly among the strangest films you will see all year, is Disney by way of Hunter S. Thompson. [...]

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Julie Taymor made one of cinema’s finest Shakespearian adaptations with Titus, a brave and audacious interpretation that placed the action in an alternate universe equal parts Mussolini’s fascist Italy and Caligula’s debauched Rome. As elated as I was to hear she’d undertaken The Tempest, the bard’s final and least produced classic, I was equally disheartened [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Don’t tell my wife, but I love being wrong. At least when it comes to films. I’ll admit it, I came to The Sorcerer’s Apprentice prepared to hate it. It had all the hallmarks of a film [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is the first popcorn hit of the summer, a mindless, high-fructose, high-octane adventure that demands very little of your intellect but is sure to get your heart racing. Like the [...]

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An Education, thematically complex, elegantly fashioned and breathtakingly acted, is a poignant coming-of-age story for both a character and a country, essentially a soap opera made vibrantly electric. But unhappily, it is a very good film that stumbles in the home stretch and just misses out on being a great film.

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