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Colin Covert has covered films for the Star Tribune for 20 years, interviewing Peter Jackson, Kate Winslet, Steven Spielberg, Cate Blanchett, Quentin Tarantino, Neil Gaiman and John Travolta, to name a few. Colin’s job as a film critic consists mostly of thinking up synonyms for “mediocre.” He still gets a thrill when the lights dim, and all too often a bigger thrill when they come on again.
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'Beyond the Hills': Tense exorcism drama from Romania

REVIEW: In an intense Romanian drama directed by Cristian Mungiu, an order of monastic nuns is disrupted by an apparently mad woman from the secular world.

Updated: April 04, 2013, - 04:20 PM

'Sapphires': Irrepressibly upbeat tribute to Australia's Supremes.

REVIEW: “The Sapphires” sparkles with sass and Motown soul. It’s a girl-group charmer set in the midst of the civil rights era, but half a world away from the strife-torn streets of the United States.

Updated: April 04, 2013, - 04:14 PM

“Ginger & Rosa,” captivating coming-of-age drama

REVIEW: Elle Fanning and Alice Englert are superb as friends growing up at the advent of the Cold War.

Updated: March 29, 2013, - 12:46 PM

Movies: Reviewed in Brief

From Up on Poppy Hill ⋆⋆ ½ out of four stars Rated: PG for mild thematic elements and some incidental smoking images. Theater:...

Updated: March 28, 2013, - 06:25 PM

Stephenie Meyer's 'The Host' lacks punch

REVIEW: If a teenager acts like she’s been taken over by an extraterrestrial consciousness, perhaps she really has.

Updated: March 28, 2013, - 04:18 PM

Movies: 'The Silence' is golden

REVIEW: A long-ago unsolved murder case is reopened when another body is found.

Updated: March 28, 2013, - 04:08 PM

Contemporary Italian films come to MCAD

Italian Film Festival is back for its fifth year.

Updated: March 28, 2013, - 02:25 PM

‘Spring Breakers’ explodes with color, drugs, violence

REVIEW: Harmony Korine’s “Spring Breakers” is “Girls Gone Wild” meets “Natural Born Killers” with a chaser of social satire.

Updated: March 23, 2013, - 03:46 PM

Brazilian director Salles adapts American classic 'On the Road'

How Walter Salles became the first filmmaker to adapt Jack Kerouac’s rebel classic, “On the Road.” “I profoundly identified with the vibrant free spirits of Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty,” he said during a recent visit to Minneapolis.

Updated: March 23, 2013, - 03:45 PM