A version of this review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Laugh-out-loud hilarious one moment and darkly tragic the next, I Love You Phillip Morris’ tone is wildly uneven, never quite sure of what sort of movie it wants to be—and I loved it for [...]

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“One of these things is not like the other,” Big Bird used to croon on Sesame Street. “One of these things just doesn’t belong.” It is fairly obvious that Big Bird was playfully commenting on the fact that Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer is far too good a film for its February release date, a [...]

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“More of this story is true than you would believe,” we are told in the opening moments of The Men Who Stare at Goats. It’s a fair warning and one that bears repeating the further the film slides into incredulity and absurdity. Sometimes truth is indeed stranger than fiction. No doubt intended as the comic [...]

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