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Review of Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 21 Sep 2011

Andy Lau (Infernal Affairs) gives a charismatic lead performance as Dee, a historical figure who became a folk hero, but the real attraction…

Review of Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest (2011)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 Sep 2011

Rapaport keeps things lively with a hip-hop-tinged aesthetic, shuffling rhythmically between old and new footage…

Review of Stake Land (2010)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 11 Sep 2011

Mickle's observation of a devastated working-class America is so sharp that the horror elements, though effectively handled, come to feel like…

Review of Apollo 18 (2011)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 07 Sep 2011

This isn't at all scary, but the rough images can be weirdly compelling, the movie's conspiratorial jive enhanced by the fact that the lunar…

Review of 5 Days of War (2011)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 31 Aug 2011

It almost goes without saying that Harlin is the wrong man to direct a docudrama about the Russia-Georgian conflict of 2008, which displaced…

Review of Seven Days in Utopia (2011)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 31 Aug 2011

If the combination of Christian bromides and golf tips strikes you as a recipe for boredom, stay away…

Review of Spy Kids: All the Time in the World (2011)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 19 Aug 2011

The visual effects are as gleefully shoddy as ever, and the playful ideas sometimes achieve a dreamlike suggestiveness…

Review of Senna (2010)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 18 Aug 2011

Much of the film's impact comes from the nimble editing of Chris King (whose previous work includes Exit Through the Gift Shop) and Gregers Sall…

Review of Conan the Barbarian (2011)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 17 Aug 2011

Rife with the oldest and simplest pleasures of 3-D movies: all sorts of objects fly at the camera, and the climactic battle takes place over…

Review of The Whistleblower (2010)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 11 Aug 2011

Kondracki relies on sharp, quotidian detail to show how such atrocities become business as usual; she also makes a point of humanizing the…

Review of The Help (2011)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 Aug 2011

As in many reductive period pieces, there are no real characters here, just archetypes, namely reactionary cretins and sensitive souls who…

Review of Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 27 Jul 2011

As in the directors' earlier work, the humor is rooted in humiliation, but the execution here is tepid and indecisive, possibly because the…

Review of Cowboys & Aliens (2011)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 27 Jul 2011

Playing a variation on John Wayne's character from Red River, Harrison Ford gives an understandably bewildered performance, often appearing…

Review of Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 20 Jul 2011

Joe Johnston - returning to the vibe of his first directorial effort, The Rocketeer (1991) - creates a fun retro-futurist environment with…

Review of Monte Carlo (2011)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jul 2011

The movie hits a surprising range of emotional grace notes, including several moments of genuine regret, and concludes with an understated…

Review of The Trip (2011)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 15 Jun 2011

The movie offers enough good one-liners, both comic and ruminative, to hold one's interest, but don't expect much else…

Review of The Art of Getting By (2011)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 15 Jun 2011

The movie is so filled with such optimistic gestures that one wishes it were more convincing; the dialogue is riddled with cliches and the…

Review of Beginners (2011)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Jun 2011

Mills pulls off the nonchronological structure with uncommon sensitivity; unfortunately, he also confuses sensitivity with preciousness (recurring…

Review of X-Men: First Class (2011)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jun 2011

Like Bryan Singer's X2 (2003), this fifth entry in the X-Men franchise is noteworthy for its gay-rights subtext and for its noted actors delivering…

Review of The Double Hour (2009)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 26 May 2011

As the heroine, Rappoport creates an exquisite, multifaceted character from the old film noir archetype of a woman in flight; in this case…

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