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Review of Predestination (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Jan 2015

Writer-directors Peter and Michael Spierig show affinities for serious literature as well as pulp fiction; interwoven with the loopy SF plotting…

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Review of Predestination (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Jan 2015

Writer-directors Peter and Michael Spierig show affinities for serious literature as well as pulp fiction; interwoven with the loopy SF plotting…

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Review of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 07 Jan 2015

For all the visual ambition, this doesn't add up to anything terribly substantial…

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Review of Inherent Vice (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 07 Jan 2015

More than just an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel, the film engages with the author's literature on the whole, attempting a filmic…

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Review of Into the Woods (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Jan 2015

With the exception of Meryl Streep (as the Witch) and James Corden (as the Baker), the cast is bland, and the bombastic orchestrations tend…

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Review of Big Eyes (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Jan 2015

Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz are charismatic in the lead roles; occasionally they distract from the movie's overall smugness…

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Review of Annie (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 18 Dec 2014

There's a surprising amount of bite: the filmmakers openly acknowledge the similarities between the Great Depression and the present, and the…

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Review of Point and Shoot (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 11 Dec 2014

In addition to being a knotty psychological portrait, this raises some tough questions about America's presence in the Middle East and the…

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Review of Point and Shoot (2016)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 11 Dec 2014

In addition to being a knotty psychological portrait, this raises some tough questions about America's presence in the Middle East and the…

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Review of Antarctica: A Year on Ice (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 04 Dec 2014

Powell makes excellent use of time-lapse photography to capture such natural phenomena as a sea freezing over…

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Review of Bad Hair (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 04 Dec 2014

The psychological drama grows organically out of everyday conflict, and an immersive treatment of the housing project where the characters…

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Review of Horrible Bosses 2 (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 26 Nov 2014

This is the sort of slapdash comedy in which characters get smarter or stupider from one scene to the next, depending on the script demands…

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Review of The Homesman (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 26 Nov 2014

As the protagonists near their final destination, The Homesman offers a critique of civilization that's almost as pessimistic as its critique…

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Review of Force Majeure (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 21 Nov 2014

For a comedy about emotional pain, this is neither discomforting nor terribly funny, and the satire of bourgeois complacency doesn't cut very deep…

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Review of Interstellar (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 21 Nov 2014

After the first hour, with its poignant depiction of humanity's decline, Interstellar always seems to be rebuilding its momentum, offering…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 20 Nov 2014

The impressive supporting cast (which features Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julianne Moore, Jeffrey Wright, and Woody Harrelson) keeps this highly…

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Review of Beyond the Lights (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 13 Nov 2014

Writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood employs plenty of well-worn melodramatic devices, but sincerely; the characters' emotions ring true even…

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Review of The Homestretch (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Nov 2014

The Homestretch, the latest social-issue documentary from Kartemquin Films, succeeds surprisingly well in having its cake and eating it too…

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Review of Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Nov 2014

As a history lesson about Canada's unjust treatment of Native Americans, it's often eye-opening, but as storytelling it's clunky and highly…

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Review of Big Hero 6 (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Nov 2014

There's enough tried-and-true Disney sentiment here to counter the rampant antihumanism, and the futuristic settings look spectacular, but…

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