A version of this review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Offbeat but also formulaic, vulgar but not nearly as much as it likes to think, Cedar Rapids has plenty of heart, but frankly it isn’t very funny. The word “meh” was coined for films [...]

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The Extra Man is not a film—it is a sequence of extended personality ticks. No one in the movie remotely approximates a recognizable human being. These are not characters; they are caricatures. We do not care about any caricature nor are given reason to. Forced whimsy is still forced. And yet, as paltry and unsubstantial [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
There are good movies, bad movies and movies that fall somewhere in between. And then there are movies that somehow manage to thoroughly entertain, despite being none (or all) of the above. The first image of Cirque [...]

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