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Review of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2011)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 28 Jul 2011

In this lavish adaptation of Lisa See's novel, the complex chronologies of the parallel narratives are skillfully handled by director Wayne…

Review of Friends with Benefits (2011)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 20 Jul 2011

The jokes don't all work and the topical references can be irritably hipper-than-thou, but at least director and cowriter Will Gluck (Easy…

Review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 12 Jul 2011

Cinematographer Eduardo Serra underscores the sense of dread with a rich charcoal palette, and the outstanding CGI and 3D effects make the…

Review of A Better Life (2011)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 07 Jul 2011

A major star in Mexico, Bichir is quietly affecting as the father, a humble striver who faces loss at every turn…

Review of A Better Life (2011)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 07 Jul 2011

A major star in Mexico, Bichir is quietly affecting as the father, a humble striver who faces loss at every turn…

Review of Project Nim (2011)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Jul 2011

Sexual politics, family dynamics, the debate over heredity versus environment, and the dubious ethics of scientific research on animals are…

Review of The Last Mountain (2011)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 22 Jun 2011

This forceful expose shows how area residents are fighting to keep their beloved Coal Mountain pristine, but filmmaker Bill Haney allots too…

Review of Just Like Us (2011)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 15 Jun 2011

The travelogue sequences indicate how widely Middle Eastern cultures vary, but there are few revealing personal encounters in this well-intentioned…

Review of Super 8 (2011)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Jun 2011

Writer-director J.J…

Review of Flannel Pajamas (2006)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 27 May 2011

The script is overwritten and has too many themes--suicide, abuse, anti-Semitism--to support, but Nicholson does remarkable work in an unsympathetic…

Review of The Bounty Hunter (2010)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 May 2011

Inexplicably, Butler continues to get work in romantic comedies despite his limited range and boorish persona…

Review of Hesher (2010)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 11 May 2011

Writer-director Spencer Susser and cowriter David Michod (Animal Kingdom) generate fresh hells at a surreally rapid clip but cop out with an…

Review of There Be Dragons (2011)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 04 May 2011

The resulting mix of hagiography and war epic is so muddled that characters keep addressing each other by their first names, the better to…

Review of Incendies (2010)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 28 Apr 2011

By the end theyve acquired a measure of self-knowledge at a cost dearer than they expected, which reminds us that what we think we know can…

Review of Water for Elephants (2011)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 27 Apr 2011

Features a credible and sympathetic performance from Robert Pattinson as an orphaned veterinary student who joins a traveling circus…

Review of Silent Hill (2006)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 20 Apr 2011

Horror maestro Christophe Gans (Brotherhood of the Wolf) directed this feature, worth seeing for the zombie nurses who gyrate like a Bob Fosse…

Review of Super (2010)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 Apr 2011

This movie is too pedestrian for camp, and too scattershot for an action comedy…

Review of Soul Surfer (2011)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Apr 2011

AnnaSophia Robb (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) is too subdued as the teenage heroine; one might expect more affect from a young woman…

Review of Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Apr 2011

The cloying score aside, this is a searing depiction of war in all its savagery, waste, and folly, with artfully choreographed sequences that…

Review of Race to Witch Mountain (2009)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Mar 2011

With its chase scenes, shoot-outs, explosions, and special effects, this looks more like Jerry Bruckheimer product than a traditional Disney…

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