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In It’s a Wonderful Life, George Bailey discovers, with a little supernatural assistance, that he has a very precise destiny and that one misstep could generate a radically different future. The Adjustment Bureau is [...]

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The writing/editing/directing team of Joel and Ethan Coen has long been Oscar and critical darlings, but aside from some cult favorites (Fargo, The Big Lebowski), their films have left most audiences cold. All that changes with True Grit, their most accessible, crowd-pleasing film to date. True Grit does not try to deconstruct the Western as [...]

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Clint Eastwood isn’t exactly a guy known for his meditations on mortality. His characters tend to wade into treacherous situations without a second thought to their spiritual conditions or what might happen if they [...]

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There is only one word needed to sum up Invictus — underwhelming. While the historically significant story is certainly worthy of a film adaptation, Invictus is little more than a clichéd sports drama, and a rather stale [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
The Informant!, an offbeat comedy from director Steven Soderbergh and based on a true story and book of the same name by Kurt Eichenwald, is some of the most fun I’ve had at the theater all year. [...]

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