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Review of The Other Dream Team (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 Oct 2012

The movie sticks to the basic facts and patronizes viewers with plentiful music cues and other emotional pointers; you'd be better off learning…

Review of Sinister (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 Oct 2012

[Director Scott Derrickson finds] new ways to frame the same rooms from one scene to the next and providing comic relief whenever the action…

Review of Frankenweenie (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 03 Oct 2012

Missing, however, are the authentic feelings of morbidity and alienation that once made Burton an interesting filmmaker…

Review of Looper (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 26 Sep 2012

The dystopian setting…

Review of Snowman's Land (1939)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 26 Sep 2012

Any charm evaporates amid the rampant amorality…

Review of The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 26 Sep 2012

This big-screen adaptation, written and directed by Chbosky, doesn't advance the source material, though it preserves the book's sensitive…

Review of Snowman's Land (2010)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 26 Sep 2012

Any charm evaporates amid the rampant amorality…

Review of Arbitrage (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 20 Sep 2012

This isn't very effective as a thriller, though it's a provocative fable about our ambivalent feelings toward financial elites…

Review of The Cold Light of Day (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 13 Sep 2012

Cavill is no substitute for Van Damme, whose self-critical performance gave the earlier movie much of its heft…

Review of Samsara (2011)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 05 Sep 2012

Any sincerity inherent in the project is overwhelmed by the manufactured awe of its godawful New Age score…

Review of The Possession (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 05 Sep 2012

Director Ole Bornedal doesn't add a single idea of his own…

Review of The Apparition (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 30 Aug 2012

This horror movie from Warner Bros. is nothing special, but it's nice to see a modest genre entertainment buoyed by a major studio's resources…

Review of Hit & Run (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 22 Aug 2012

This is neither funny nor suspenseful, but it does feature some cool-looking cars, and Tom Arnold delivers some decent pratfalls as an accident-prone…

Review of The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 15 Aug 2012

It's hard to believe that Hedges once wrote some decent light fiction (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, An Ocean in Iowa) before he started making…

Review of Hope Springs (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Aug 2012

These modest virtues are buried under such hard-sell devices as a manipulative muzak score and sitcom-style close-ups that disrupt the narrative…

Review of Searching for Sugar Man (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Aug 2012

Here's the rare music documentary in which the narrative is more interesting than the songs…

Review of Ballplayer: Pelotero (2011)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Aug 2012

[The] Directors...try to soften...ugly truths with sentimental stories of teenagers getting signed and pulling their families out of poverty,…

Review of Girlfriend Boyfriend (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Aug 2012

The shift from social portrait to domestic soap opera practically negates the democratic message of the first section, but Yang's stylish filmmaking…

Review of A Simple Life (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Aug 2012

[T]he sort of film in which every detail feels unforced but essential…

Review of Farewell, My Queen (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 18 Jul 2012

Jacquot takes a refreshingly understated approach to costume drama, avoiding historical generalizations to focus on the particulars of palace…

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