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Boulder Weekly, Reviews

DEMOLITION

January 20, 2023January 16, 2023 Michael J. Casey

Before you can fix something, you must first take it apart. Before you can be reborn, you must first be destroyed. That line of thinking motivates director Jean-Marc Vallée’s film, Demolition, a movie that focuses on the self-destruction required to survive … Continue reading DEMOLITION

Reviews, Boulder Weekly

IRRESISTIBLE

July 6, 2022July 4, 2022 Michael J. Casey

Gary Zimmer (Steve Carell) is a typical liberal elite, the kind they grow in labs somewhere along the coast. He dresses well enough to look like he has taste, works at a job that makes him enough money to look … Continue reading IRRESISTIBLE

Boulder Weekly, Reviews

LITTLE WOMEN

March 17, 2022February 19, 2022 Michael J. Casey

Jo March is elated. A few moments earlier, she was in excruciating pain: Another pie-eyed scribbler stranded on the non-editorial side of the desk. Too shy to admit the truth, Jo (Saoirse Ronan) claims the story is a creation of … Continue reading LITTLE WOMEN

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2019: Something To Do With Death

December 31, 2020January 1, 2021 Michael J. Casey

As the saying goes, hindsight is twenty-twenty. Why death hung so darkly over my mind as I penned last year’s Best Of column, I cannot say. Maybe it was me. Maybe it was the movies. Maybe it was the Rolling … Continue reading 2019: Something To Do With Death

Boulder Weekly, Reviews1 Comment

CARS 3

May 19, 2020May 18, 2020 Michael J. Casey

One good turn deserves another, and from yesterday’s Coco to today’s Cars 3, there’s much to find in every Pixar movie. A revisit proves that the underlying story and emotion holds up—enough. McQueen’s decline and Cruz’s rise are unbalanced, and many middle scenes … Continue reading CARS 3

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A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

November 21, 2019November 21, 2019 Michael J. Casey

Mr. Rodgers doesn’t feel like he should be part of this world. His gentleness, kindness, and saint-like patience seem better placed in the world of make-believe — right next to King Friday XIII and Daniel Tiger. Until the recent (and … Continue reading A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

Reviews

LIVE BY NIGHT

January 13, 2017June 3, 2021 Michael J. Casey

Adapted from the 2012 novel by Dennis Lehane, Live By Night is a great American epic stuck inside a misguided movie. Written for the screen, produced, and directed by Ben Affleck, who also stars, Live by Night starts overseas in the trenches of World … Continue reading LIVE BY NIGHT

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