Every year about this time, we critics torture ourselves (no, really, it’s quite difficult) with the impossible task of objectively categorizing works of art. Choosing the finest films of the year is an odd and ultimately unfulfilling exercise, one that invites constant second-guessing and nearly always devolves into more of a favorites list than an [...]

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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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