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Staining our national honor

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You can’t control the world, but you can control your reaction. Reactions define the individual, and in Scott Z. Burns’ The Report, the tragic events of...

Brave the new world

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The time has come to rewrite Jean-Luc Godard’s aphorism: “All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.” Writer/director/cinematographer Sean Baker doesn’t even need the gun — just two transgender actresses, three iPhone 5s with fancy lenses and East Hollywood at his...

Mad north-north-west

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‘The Northman’ blends hypnotic visuals with a bland story

Cinema without borders

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CU-Boulder’s International Film Series isn’t just Boulder’s first art-house series; it also features one of the best programs out there. From international sensations to...

Denver Film Festival: Brit Withey Tribute

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On March 31, 2019, Colorado lost one of its great champions of cinema: Brit Withey. Withey, who died in a one-car crash, was the artistic...

Genius, so-called

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‘In Bed With Ulysses’ and in love with James Joyce

On the range in the gig economy

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A portrait of two freelance range riders in ‘Bitterbrush’

Who doesn’t want 15 minutes of fame?

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Finders Keepers is as delightful as it is bizarre. It is the story of an amputated left foot and the two men who fought over it from 2008 to 2014. Some things you just have to see to believe...

Never gonna be president now

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A fitting fable: Scorpion asked Frog if he would carry him across the river. Frog, afraid of being stung by Scorpion, hesitated. “Never fear,” Scorpion...

Recyclists

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This is not a good movie. It’s important to establish that early on so that you can understand how an appreciation of its moving parts doesn’t fully remove one central thesis: Premium Rush is crap. It may, however, be somewhat fun crap, depending on your tolerance ...

‘What cinema is capable of, at all ends of the spectrum’

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Kathryn Bernheimer — programmer of the Boulder Jewish Film Festival (BJFF) — knows what her audience wants. “Opening and closing films have to be feel-good,”...

Someone to watch over me

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It all started with a movie, Lonesome, and the promotional team in charge of booking screenings of the 1928 romantic comedy in various mountain...