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Swiping Boulder
Boulder’s reputation as the land of high-altitude hotties obscures a cruel truth: Dating here is hard. As locals on “the apps” know, swiping through...
‘This is how I win.’
Nothing
is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to
understand him. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and
Punishment
His name is Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler),...
X-treme downsizing!
Honestly, who hasn’t cubicle daydreamed about which office supplies would make the best weapons, just in case Jason from accounting ever decides to take...
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
When Avatar shattered box-office records in 2009, many
attributed the movie’s success to 3D’s profitability. And not just because
viewers were intrigued, but because tickets cost...
Chloe falls flat
Chloe is a conundrum. Envisioned as a psychosexual thriller about a woman scorned, director Atom Egoyan’s latest puzzle is instead little more than a messy affair with mood lighting, sexy lingerie, heavy breathing and swelling, um, music. Everyone here is dripping ...
‘Would you like to play a game?’
They were friends in college, but it’s been 10 years since the whole group got together. Poor choices and hurt feelings came between them....
Rollin’ with the Veep
As the old saying goes: Hindsight is 20-20. But therein lies the trap, the notion that since we can see the past clearly, we...
Jaegers bombing
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 ...
The kid in the bird
There is one thing you never do on Sesame Street and that is put someone down...
‘Every leaf, every ray of light’
“Someday we’ll fall down and weep, and we’ll understand it all. All things.” —Mr. O’Brien, The Tree of Life
For two weeks every May, the...