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Review of Citizen Koch (2013)

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

This imparts such vital information that one can overlook the technical ineptitude…

Review of The Fault in Our Stars (2014)

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

An emotional climax arrives every 15 minutes or so, and every affecting moment is underscored with a soppy light-rock song…

Review of Cold in July (2014)

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

Initially the late-80s setting of Cold in July registers as kitsch, but it grows more evocative as the Carpenter impersonation gives way to…

Review of Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (2013)

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

The film is almost monotonously somber, though not in a bad way -- when it erupts into violence or settles briefly into moments of intimacy,…

Review of Words and Pictures (2014)

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

With remarkable ease, director Fred Schepisi delivers a literate, grown-up comedy in the forgotten tradition of George Cukor and Joseph L. Mankiewicz…

Review of X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 28 May 2014

Much of this takes place in the early 1970s, which gives the filmmakers an excuse to haul out lots of vintage kitsch and make some rather tasteless…

Review of Maleficent (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 28 May 2014

[It lacks] the sort of nightmarish visions that made Walt Disney's early animation features so powerful…

Review of Fading Gigolo (2013)

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

The premise is preposterous and many of the gags are tasteless, yet the tone is gentle, even elegiac, and the players are surprisingly sensitive…

Review of The Immigrant (2013)

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

Beautifully shot (by Darius Khondji), designed, and performed, this may well be Gray's masterpiece…

Review of Chef (2014)

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

Chef is so thin and bland it doesn't even inspire contempt…

Review of Godzilla (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 May 2014

The sets (decorated by Elizabeth Wilcox) are filled with quirky bric-a-brac, bringing a lived-in dimension to the big-budget spectacle, and…

Review of Sepideh (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 May 2014

Madsen inspires genuine admiration for her strong-willed heroine…

Review of Bright Days Ahead (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 07 May 2014

Ardant might wrestle with alienation, but Bright Days Ahead never risks alienating its self-satisfied target audience…

Review of Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 07 May 2014

This 2013 profile of famed ballerina Tanaquil Le Clercq divides its running time between biographical information and synopses of creative…

Review of Dancing in Jaffa (2013)

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

Dulaine comes off as grossly opportunistic, playing the compassionate clown with the children and using the most self-aggrandizing language…

Review of Le Week-End (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Apr 2014

Once the characters start explaining the sources of their unhappiness, the drama becomes less compelling, largely because their problems seem…

Review of For a Woman (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Apr 2014

This is engrossing stuff, not only in the remarkable details of the parents' lives, but in the psychological nuance with which Kurys imagines them…

Review of Noah and the Last Days (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Apr 2014

For all the high-tech showmanship on display, this retelling of Noah and the Ark marks a serious effort to engage with the Old Testament as…

Review of Noah (2015)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Apr 2014

For all the high-tech showmanship on display, this retelling of Noah and the Ark marks a serious effort to engage with the Old Testament as…

Review of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Apr 2014

Unless you're intimately familiar with the so-called Marvel universe (or you really love CG explosions), little of this will resonate…

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