This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
It’s about time someone made a romantic comedy about long distance relationships. The set-up is ripe with both comic and dramatic possibilities, dueling polarities that Going the Distance mines equally. This leads to a bit of [...]

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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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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Whip It, the directorial debut of actress Drew Barrymore, is a fun, breezy, grrrrrrl empowerment movie with enormous heart and crowd-pleasing muscle. Surprisingly moving and pervasively funny, this celebration of female camaraderie is, to borrow a word, [...]

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