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Review of Métamorphoses (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 19 Apr 2017

[Honre'] does succeed, though, in conveying the joy of storytelling, which has made Ovid's work endure; the engagingly knotty structure is…

Review of The Fate of the Furious (2017)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 12 Apr 2017

[Gray] has the common sense to slow things down now and then, letting the charismatic players (among them Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Dwayne…

Review of The Cinema Travellers (2016)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 30 Mar 2017

A subtle sense of mortality enters in the final third, when several of the men decide to replace one of their 35-millimeter machines with a…

Review of Rhino Season (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 22 Dec 2016

Burdened with a complex flashback structure and an unemotional core, this multi-decade saga of an imprisoned Iranian poet and his family has…

Review of Legendary (2010)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Jul 2016

The wrestling scenes are the best part of this drama…

Review of Palio (2015)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 18 May 2016

The interview subjects aren't particularly eloquent, though; they tend to stop the movie dead in its tracks…

Review of Centurion (2010)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 28 Apr 2016

There's little here about soldiers and mercenaries that isn't lifted from other movies, though Marshall elicits a steady seriousness from his…

Review of Victor Frankenstein (2015)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 25 Nov 2015

McAvoy's performance is good for a few laughs, but the doctor never seems capable of sustaining a serious thought, let alone creating life…

Review of The Good Dinosaur (2015)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 25 Nov 2015

The intricately designed settings convey a Miyazaki-like reverence for the natural world, and the hero's longing for his family is affecting,…

Review of The Hallow (2015)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 19 Nov 2015

This ecologically themed horror movie scores points for atmosphere and imagination, though it isn't particularly scary…

Review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 19 Nov 2015

This fourth and final installment of the Hunger Games franchise is by far the most dour, consisting mainly of dim, uninspired battle sequences…

Review of In the Basement (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 19 Nov 2015

In the Basement is a brisk, bracing, and often very funny film about the seeds of fascism in contemporary Austrian society…

Review of The Great Man (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 19 Nov 2015

The characters are nicely written and performed and writer-director Sarah Leonor demonstrates an assured, literary sense of time passing…

Review of Heart of a Dog (1988)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 12 Nov 2015

Laurie Anderson's Heart of a Dog is not just a movie but a guided meditation, drawing viewers into a state of peaceful contemplation from which…

Review of Heart of a Dog (1976)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 12 Nov 2015

Laurie Anderson's Heart of a Dog is not just a movie but a guided meditation, drawing viewers into a state of peaceful contemplation from which…

Review of Love the Coopers (2015)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 12 Nov 2015

The dialogue consists of sitcom-ready cliches and the characterizations are all one-dimensional, but the cast do what they can to eke some…

Review of Madam Phung's Last Journey (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 12 Nov 2015

This is a lively film but also a sad one…

Review of Heart of a Dog (2015)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 12 Nov 2015

Laurie Anderson's Heart of a Dog is not just a movie but a guided meditation, drawing viewers into a state of peaceful contemplation from which…

Review of Spectre (2015)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 05 Nov 2015

This James Bond outing begins with a stunning set piece in which the hero, played by Daniel Craig, takes down a terrorist cell amid Day of…

Review of Yona (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 29 Oct 2015

The recitations of Wallach's poems fail to convey their power, coming across as illustrations of her psychological states rather than expressions…

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