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Review of Watchers of the Sky (2014)

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

The movie feels too short at two hours; it offers a worthwhile overview of the subjects but doesn't treat any of them in much depth…

Review of Nightcrawler (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 31 Oct 2014

For a first-time director, Gilroy demonstrates an uncommon assurance, not only in his audacious tonal shifts but in the stellar work he elicits…

Review of Horns (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 30 Oct 2014

However crass and mean-spirited this 2013 fantasy gets, the handling of fairytale conventions is sincere, which gives the film an emotional weight…

Review of John Wick (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 22 Oct 2014

The scenes of hand-to-hand combat are stupendous, often playing out in long-take medium shots that allow us to savor the fight choreography,…

Review of The Good Lie (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 22 Oct 2014

The main characters are played by actual refugees-two of whom were child soldiers-and their uninflected, authoritative performances compensate…

Review of The Good Lie (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 22 Oct 2014

The main characters are played by actual refugees-two of whom were child soldiers-and their uninflected, authoritative performances compensate…

Review of That Awkward Moment (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 19 Oct 2014

The refreshing thing about this otherwise formulaic romantic comedy is that writer-director Tom Gormican gives the verbal humor some rhythm,…

Review of Fury (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 15 Oct 2014

In the combat scenes any moral ambiguity goes out the window…

Review of The Book of Life (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 15 Oct 2014

This Pixar knockoff from 20th Century Fox is more imaginative than most, though like far too many of them, it's undone by a surfeit of glib…

Review of The Green Prince (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 15 Oct 2014

The movie's empty pizzazz is especially irritating because the story would have been compelling without any embellishment…

Review of Pride (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Oct 2014

Schmaltzy and formulaic, but also lively and sincere…

Review of Art and Craft (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Oct 2014

Directors Sam Cullman and Jennifer Grausman maintain a bright tone and a melancholy undercurrent, which combine in an eminently watchable character…

Review of Last Weekend (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Oct 2014

This tepid indie comedy lacks a consistent tone; directors Tom Dolby and Tom Williams can't decide whether to satirize or sympathize with their…

Review of Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 24 Sep 2014

The life lessons are patronizingly simple, and the views of exotic locales seem to have come out of an in-flight magazine…

Review of Rocks in My Pockets (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 24 Sep 2014

Signe Baumane…

Review of A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 24 Sep 2014

As usual, Neeson gives a more thoughtful performance than the material deserves…

Review of The Guest (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 17 Sep 2014

That's a familiar setup, but Barrett and Wingard take it in one unexpected direction after another, displaying obvious pleasure in their mad…

Review of The Guest (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 17 Sep 2014

That's a familiar setup, but Barrett and Wingard take it in one unexpected direction after another, displaying obvious pleasure in their mad…

Review of Gerontophilia (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 17 Sep 2014

The cast does a good job at playing it straight; Walter Borden is surprisingly tender as the catty octogenarian who steals the young man's heart…

Review of This Is Where I Leave You (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 17 Sep 2014

One by one, each of them acknowledges his or her problem, they talk it out, and by the end of the week everybody's OK…

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