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Following the Red Riding Hood screening, I expressed my feelings about the film to a colleague who was lucky enough to have been otherwise occupied. “Was it really that bad?” she asked. “Bad?” I [...]

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Letters to Juliet is the perfect example of formula done right, buttressing a familiar story rather than hamstringing it. It is the sort of wish fulfillment movie you actually wish for. Sure, you know more or less [...]

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On the surface, Chloe looks like the sort of polished, art-house eroticism Bernardo Bertolucci used to peddle. Soon, however, we discover Chloe is more of a lesbian Fatal Attraction than a Last Tango in Paris, a tawdry, [...]

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If Mel Gibson is obsessed with suffering as some sort of Dark Ages redemptive penance, than Nicholas Sparks, on whose book the film Dear John is based, has a fetish for personal calamity, for creating sentimental, overly [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Jennifer’s Body was in trouble from the first moment screenwriter Diablo Cody conjured it up. Though one cannot help but admire her desire to immediately switch gears (and genres) so hot on the heels of her Academy [...]

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