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Review of Sharqiya (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 15 May 2013

The movie is somewhat monotonous, but its comic insights resonate in hindsight…

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Review of Almost in Love (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 15 May 2013

Privileged thirtysomethings whine about their romantic problems in this indie rom-com from writer-director Sam Neave…

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Review of Graceland (2012)

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

The film feels increasingly exploitative as it becomes more overtly political, illustrating various forms of injustice with blunt, sensationalistic…

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Review of The Big Wedding (2013)

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

Barring a few off-color jokes, though, the movie feels like a Carol Burnett sketch dragged out to feature length…

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Review of Hava Nagila: The Movie (2012)

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

Thankfully there are enough eloquent talking heads to keep this watchable…

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Review of Kon-Tiki (2012)

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

The characters don't register as much more than genre archetypes, but that doesn't spoil the fun, since the filmmakers re-create the journey…

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Review of Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 24 Apr 2013

This deliberately tasteless horror-comedy might appeal to gore hounds and fans of gross-out humor; but as with many films that strive for cult…

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Review of Violeta Went to Heaven (2011)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 24 Apr 2013

The formulaic storytelling has the unfortunate effect of making her extraordinary story feel familiar, though Wood's impressionistic style…

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Review of Pain & Gain (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 24 Apr 2013

Bay is no Paul Verhoeven, but he's coming from a similar place here, purposely amplifying the ugliest qualities of American culture…

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Review of No Place on Earth (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 17 Apr 2013

The movie is engaging but appallingly superficial when it considers the larger history of the Holocaust…

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Review of Ginger & Rosa (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 22 Mar 2013

Like Terence Davies's work, this is less about storytelling than immersing viewers in the minute details of an era -- what one of the film's…

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Review of In the Fog (2012)

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

Director Sergei Loznitsa often employs dreamy, intricately choreographed long-takes reminiscent of Russian filmmakers Andrei Tarkovsky, Aleksei…

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Review of You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012)

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

Alain Resnais reflects on some lifelong themes, and though this drama is characteristically eerie, it also conveys a calm that's rare in his work…

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Review of Paradise: Faith (2013)

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

Even at his most thematically reductive, Ulrich Seidl exhibits one of the richest pictorial sensibilities in contemporary movies…

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Review of The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)

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

Occasionally amusing but instantly forgettable…

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Review of Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 07 Mar 2013

Sam Raimi brings the jokey, adolescent sensibility of his Drag Me to Hell to this lavish Wizard of Oz prequel, and the result is as unshapely…

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Review of North Sea Texas (2011)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 15 Feb 2013

This debut feature by noted short-film director Bavo Defurne emphasizes ambiance over storytelling, but that ambiance is so flavorsome you…

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Review of A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)

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

Unnecessary but not unwatchable, this maintains a brisk pace as it moves through the familiar action set pieces, most of them decently orchestrated…

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Review of Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 04 Feb 2013

There isn't much to this beyond the poorly staged, rapidly edited violence; the witches, all but devoid of backstory, are basically canvasses…

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Review of Movie 43 (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 04 Feb 2013

Despite all the gross-out humor, the most offensive thing about this is the lazy filmmaking; every shot feels like a first take, and the haphazard…

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