A version of this review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
For a sport that appeals to a small, if vocal, sliver of fans, boxing films are so plentiful and often such critical darlings, that they might just constitute their own genre. The Fighter doesn’t [...]

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This is an abridged version of a review I wrote for Christianity Today Movies. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Ever since Francis Ford Coppola abdicated the rights in 1974 after The Godfather II, no one has mastered the crime epic better than Michael Mann. It is still a source of profound [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Contrary to popular belief, there is something far worse than a demonstrably bad film and that is a film with boundless but ultimately squandered potential. Terminator: Salvation is such a movie. It arrives onscreen emboldened with such [...]

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