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The Company Men was originally slated for a Christmas Day release. That was before the studio began reading critical feedback and quickly moved it to mid-January. It’s not that the film is bad. It’s [...]

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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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The rehabilitation of Ben Affleck is complete. His penance has been accepted. The star of Gigli, Daredevil and Pearl Harbor has now earned audiences’ respect again (to say nothing of finally being worthy of wife Jennifer Garner). After a period of disastrous films, and a career trajectory in a nosedive, the Oscar winner wowed everyone [...]

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It turns out Robert Pattinson sparkles after all. Known around the world by millions of teenaged girls as the heartthrob vampire from the Twilight franchise, Pattinson proves in Remember Me that adults should take him seriously too. [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Where the Wild Things Are is too simple to be understood by adults. Only a child can truly grasp it (even though this film is in no way intended for them). Reach down deep and find the [...]

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