A version of this review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Blue Valentine is an agonizing film, a raw, soul-shattering dissection of a marriage’s end. This is not a film for incurable romantics whose perceptions of love are informed by romantic comedies. This is a [...]

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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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