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‘The Princess and the Frog’ sticks to Disney template

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As you might guess by the title, "The Princess and the...

Wet and wild

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Everything was going so well for Jake Sully (Sam Worthington). He became a full-fledged Na’vi, the leader of the Omatikaya clan, married Neytiri (Zoe...

A nation of two and L.A. on my mind

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Nothing else matters when you’re in love. People come and go, jobs come and go, the world turns, but none of that sticks. Not...

A Hidden Life

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Franz Jägerstätter’s arm would not rise. It couldn’t, not for Der Führer or any man, for that matter. His life belonged to the Lord....

How do you see the world?

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A father is sick and the son is beckoned to his side. While the son waits for his father to die, he meets another wayward...

Play this movie loud

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Criterion releases 'The Last Waltz' on 4K UHD/Blu-ray

The act of seeing with one’s own eyes

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Human beings are creatures of sight. What we judge as real is commonly based on what we see and how we see, but there...

Topple the patriarchy

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Sex in cinema is a complex thing. Depicting something so private, yet so routine, with taste and titillation at the same time has been...

Best in show

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The Boulder International Film Festival is the cherry on top for a town with an already-impressive film scene. Throw in some big stars, up-and-coming filmmakers, foreign favorites and fascinating documentaries and you’ve got the perfect weekend for a cinephile. Here’...

At the movies

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A man goes to the movies. The critic must be honest enough to admit he is that man. —Robert Warshow Like a lot of you,...

‘The world’s biggest student film’

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It was 1983 when British filmmaker Alex Cox turned in his first feature film to Universal Studios. That same week, Cox optioned the rights to one of his favorite science-fiction novels for a future project. The movie was Repo Man. The book was Harry Harrison’s Bill, ...

‘Couples Retreat’ a waste of talent, unfunny

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Director Peter Billingsley had a tough assignment: take four suburban couples and put them through a series of "relationship building" challenges that were thought-provoking, poignant, revealing and funny. In attempting to accomplish this, he makes everyone a crass ...