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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Americans and their perverse obsession with happy endings. Especially during the holidays. Everybody’s Fine is a remake of an Italian film by director Giuseppe Tornatore (who made the wondrous Cinema Paradiso). In it, a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, played by the great Marcello Mastroianni, heads to the mainland to surprise his five children, only to find [...]

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I’ve often said that we need fewer movies in which people fall in love and more in which we are introduced to characters already entrenched in devoted, complimentary relationships. Where is the movie that picks up after the romantic comedy ends? Away We Go is that movie, a beguiling dramedy both euphoric and heartbreaking. It’s [...]

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