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Review of Gerhard Richter Painting (2011)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Mar 2012

The works in question express a delicate balance between spontaneity and rigid formal control -- seeing Richter at work is a bit like watching…

Review of The Hunger Games (2012)

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

Director Gary Ross (Pleasantville) generally avoids the elaborate exterior shots and special effects that dominate high-concept blockbusters…

Review of The Kid with a Bike (2011)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 21 Mar 2012

Makes a powerful statement about the plight of unwanted children…

Review of 21 Jump Street (2012)

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

Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs) seem to be after the gentle irreverence of David Gordon Green's buddy…

Review of Kill List (2011)

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

Wheatly aims for something like moral complexity by having one of the killers believe in God and the other aspire to be a good husband and…

Review of Seeking Justice (2011)

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

January Jones shoulders the thankless part of Cage's often imperiled wife…

Review of John Carter (2012)

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

Unlike Stanton's memorable animation features, this is surprisingly devoid of humor or winning characterization, though the special effects…

Review of Hell and Back Again (2011)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Feb 2012

This structure persuasively depicts combat and recovery as two sides of the same struggle, and Dennis strengthens his argument by maintaining…

Review of Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Feb 2012

This doesn't lack for crazy charm, particularly when Nicolas Cage (in his go-for-broke Bad Lieutenant mode) and Ciaran Hinds (playing the devil)…

Review of The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)

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

Pulses with feeling for childhood and nature and develops a surprising amount of suspense considering it takes place around a single suburban home…

Review of Safe House (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Feb 2012

Espinosa never conveys any sort of perspective on the material, as Scott does through his obsessive attention to production detail; the stylization…

Review of House of Pleasures (2011)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Feb 2012

Like Walter Benjamin, Bonello associates this insularity with both innocence and the 19th century; and when, in the final sequence of House…

Review of The Vow (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Feb 2012

Most of the time it plays like the movie adaptation of a Land's End catalogue, making monogamy seem essential by associating it with high-end…

Review of Safe House (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Feb 2012

Espinosa never conveys any sort of perspective on the material, as Scott does through his obsessive attention to production detail; the stylization…

Review of Addiction Incorporated (2011)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Feb 2012

The interviewees are good storytellers--particularly the eccentric research scientists who tested the effects of nicotine on rats in the early…

Review of The Woman in Black (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Feb 2012

Director James Watkins (Eden Lake) treats the material with surprising reverence, generating good clean scares from atmosphere and character…

Review of The Grey (2012)

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

Like Anthony Mann's The Naked Spur (1953) or Man of the West (1958), the movie draws on the terrifying beauty of the natural world and generates…

Review of Man on a Ledge (2012)

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

Leth moves lightly and briskly, streamlining the weird material into something elemental and true; he's also assembled a knockout supporting cast…

Review of Red Tails (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 19 Jan 2012

George Lucas served as executive producer for this effects-heavy action film about the Tuskegee Airmen, and it feels as synthetic and dull…

Review of Contraband (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 12 Jan 2012

Several graphically violent scenes of women and children in jeopardy make this, ultimately, beneath contempt…

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