This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
The Kids Are All Right is an odd little film to find in the middle of an over-stimulated Hollywood summer. Heartfelt and funny, the film is like a cool shower on an oppressively hot day—refreshing and invigorating, [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Sometimes the sign of a master artist is not how he produces a product of bracing originality, but how he interprets a long established genre. In tackling Shutter Island, only his second thriller since the 1991 remake [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Eat your heart out Wes Anderson. Ever since the sublime Rushmore, director Wes Anderson’s films have arrived on a slippery scale of diminished returns, visually transcendent but emotionally vacant. As if implicitly understanding that nature abhors such [...]

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