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Review of Valiant (2005)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Oct 2015

The violence is minimal, and the humor is inoffensive enough for tots, but everything is damned soft--from the fuzzy backgrounds to the enemy's…

Review of 30 Days of Night (2007)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 30 Sep 2015

Forget about a stake through the heart: sheriff Josh Hartnett discovers that decapitation is the best way to stop the bloodsuckers, who suggest…

Review of Notorious (2009)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 28 Sep 2015

Engrossing biopic, throbbing with style and attitude…

Review of 88 Minutes (2007)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 04 Sep 2015

Al Pacino chews up so much scenery it's surprising there's any left by the end of this fetid thriller…

Review of The Messengers (2007)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 31 Aug 2015

Earns points for its set and sound design, eerily desaturated color palette, able cast, and one really good special effect…

Review of [REC] (2007)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Aug 2015

The electrifying music helps camouflage the screenplay's hyperbole…

Review of Departures (2008)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 25 Jul 2015

Director Yojiro Takita uses the changing seasons to echo the characters' moods; the score by Joe Hisaishi (Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle)…

Review of The Game Plan (2007)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 17 Jul 2015

Almost every note in this insipid comedy is strident or false, from the child's prodigious talent for deception to the jock's chaperoning her…

Review of Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 Jul 2015

This romantic drama by director Mike Newell preserves the odd playfulness of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's international best seller but sacrifices…

Review of The Good Shepherd (2006)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 Jul 2015

Perhaps it's fitting that a movie about the early CIA be tangled and opaque, but this drama loosely based on the life of uberspook James Angleton…

Review of The Tale of Despereaux (2008)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 Jul 2015

Many of the charms of Kate DiCamillo's best-selling children's book are lost in this British animation by Dreamworks alumni Sam Fell (Flushed…

Review of The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 25 May 2015

Director Juan José Campanella weaves together two love stories--between the victim and her husband, and the investigator and his former boss…

Review of Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 05 Apr 2015

The heavy-handed delivery may reflect the urgency of the message--that women need to face the past and stand by their children--but it impedes…

Review of Our Family Wedding (2010)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Feb 2015

The families' hopes for a tasteful, upscale wedding are sabotaged by warring egos and low-rent, walking-stereotype relatives…

Review of Bigger Stronger Faster* (2008)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 03 Feb 2015

Bell presides over this insightful, often droll survey like a sweeter, buffer version of Michael Moore, trolling gyms, universities, and Congress…

Review of Speed Racer (2008)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 27 Jan 2015

Andy and Larry Wachowski barrel through this adaptation of the 60s animated series, hoping perhaps that no one will notice the story is as…

Review of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 15 Jan 2015

The singing dolphins opener is a giddy prelude to an imaginative romp that's helped along in the slow patches by mind-bending visuals…

Review of A Christmas Tale (2008)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 Jan 2015

Characters occasionally address the camera, which helps disentangle the competing story lines of madness, adultery, and betrayal…

Review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Jan 2015

The special effects are better and the dialogue slightly more humorous than in the first movie, but the anti-Arab subtext is repugnant…

Review of Serenity (2005)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 21 Dec 2014

Chiwetel Ejiofor (Dirty Pretty Things) is the sinister operative dispatched to retrieve the ship's psychic passenger, who as played by Summer…

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