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Review of Brave (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 18 Nov 2013

The story for this revisionist fairy tale, which promotes contemporary attitudes about parenting and gender equality, is less inspired than…

Review of Ender's Game (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 18 Nov 2013

If you dislike child actors, you might derive a perverse satisfaction from seeing dozens of them look so unhappy to be onscreen…

Review of The Book Thief (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 Nov 2013

This plush, mawkish period drama, adapted from Markus Zusak's 2005 best-seller, might be useful as a means of introducing the Holocaust to…

Review of The Motel Life (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Nov 2013

This independent drama effectively captures the spirit of much contemporary fiction: the tone is at once precious and stark, and the narrative…

Review of La Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 31 Oct 2013

This sense of childlike wonder, and the respect accorded everyone involved in prolonging the bus's usefulness, are all the more impressive…

Review of About Time (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 31 Oct 2013

Writer-director Richard Curtis (Love Actually) papers over any disturbing subtext with wall-to-wall cuteness -- even the sex jokes sound as…

Review of Man of Tai Chi (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 31 Oct 2013

Reeves gets plenty of mileage from this premise, using it to comment on globalization, cinema in the Internet age, and the moral cost of selling out…

Review of About Time (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 31 Oct 2013

Writer-director Richard Curtis (Love Actually) papers over any disturbing subtext with wall-to-wall cuteness -- even the sex jokes sound as…

Review of All Is Lost (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Oct 2013

This is gripping as an adventure story even if doesn't achieve the profundity to which it aspires…

Review of After Tiller (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 Oct 2013

This wrenching documentary, profiling the four doctors who still provide third-trimester abortions in the U.S., is remarkable for being so…

Review of Grigris (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 Oct 2013

[An] uplifting underdog story, complete with dance numbers and a sweet romantic subplot…

Review of We Are What We Are (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Oct 2013

The original was nothing special, but at least it had a sense of humor and a modicum of social insight…

Review of Runner Runner (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Oct 2013

The mannered speech is fun, the players are charismatic, and director Brad Furman maintains an agreeably brisk pace…

Review of The Summit (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Oct 2013

There's something unsettling about a real-life tragedy presented as an action film; that the filmmakers never acknowledge this is more unsettling yet…

Review of Metallica: Through the Never (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Oct 2013

Even as someone who finds Metallica's music silly (ditto the movie's incoherent apocalyptic fantasy sequences), I was floored by much of the…

Review of Thanks for Sharing (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Oct 2013

At least most of the cast is appealing, with Mark Ruffalo, Gwyneth Paltrow, Josh Gad, and Alecia Moore (better known as pop singer Pink) delivering…

Review of Gravity (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Oct 2013

That rarest of breeds: the intellectual blockbuster…

Review of Parkland (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Oct 2013

All we learn is that this happened and then this and then this -- the movie is like a multimillion-dollar grade-school play…

Review of Mother of George (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 25 Sep 2013

The movie's an eyeful, and the filmmakers' attention to surface texture results in passages of genuine eroticism…

Review of Computer Chess (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 25 Sep 2013

A breakthrough -- not just for indie writer-director Andrew Bujalski, but for American movie comedy…

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