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Funny or try

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Better than nothing

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Set in Manhattan, The Switch is all over the place. But around the halfway point it starts getting interesting and the people who put it together are at least working in a realm of reasonable intelligence and wit and respect for the audience. I wish it were great, ...

Emphasis on ‘film’

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The International Film Series is a...

More free dumb!

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The exhaustive brilliance of both Mad Max: Fury Road and Creed means you can’t dismiss a sequel outright just because of a decades-long gap...

Jaegers bombing

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There’s a really, really good chance you know if you like Pacific Rim without ever having seen it. Just close your eyes and ask yourself this question: Does the thought of nearly mountain-sized Transformers wailing away on Godzilla’s uglier stepsisters with rocket ...

Hurts so good

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Good science fiction makes you ask hard questions. Things like “What is the true core of human nature?” and “Do they really expect us...

Reel to reel | Week of November 07, 2013

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Films showing during the Starz Denver Film Festival, Nov. 6-17...

I’ll miss you, 2014

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From a purely fiscal standpoint, 2014 sucked. Box office totals are likely to finish at the lowest amount since 2008, which I’m sure makes everyone feel real bad for the billionaires in Hollywood. For those of us who could care less about opening day multipliers and ...

Reel to reel | Week of November 22, 2012

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ANNA KARENINA...

She needed her space

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Gravity is really pretty, really smart, really thrilling, really well directed (way to go Alfonso Cuarón!), really well written (you too, Jonás Cuarón!) and really well acted (much love, Sandra Bullock and George Clooney). Go see it, you’ll love it, but let’s put a ...

The show must go on—Dispatches from the 48th Telluride Film Festival

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There was no show last year; it was called on account of pandemic. Just as well: Wildfires all along the West draped a burnt...

Page turner

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John Ford is cinema. Born in Portland, Maine, in 1894 — just as motion picture cameras were first being put to good use —...

Three came back

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Hollywood Producer Samuel Goldwyn said it straight: “I don’t care if the film doesn’t make a nickel. I just want every man, woman and child in America to see it...