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Review of The Visit (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 09 Sep 2015

The Visit may be flawed, but viewed as a comedy, it traffics more in archetypical characters than realistic ones, and goes for the joke or…

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Review of The Visit (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 09 Sep 2015

The Visit may be flawed, but viewed as a comedy, it traffics more in archetypical characters than realistic ones, and goes for the joke or…

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Review of The Transporter Refueled (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 02 Sep 2015

Skrein acquits himself as the new Transporter, especially when the editors go full-throttle Jason Bourne on his fight scenes in the editing…

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Review of Rosenwald (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 02 Sep 2015

Rosenwald will reaffirm your faith in capitalism, compassion, community, diversity, social justice and the American dream…

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Review of A Walk in the Woods (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 01 Sep 2015

The narrative gets a gentle push from Nathan Larson's economic score, accented by harmonica and guitar, complemented by John Bailey's postcard…

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Review of Zipper (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 26 Aug 2015

This Zipper gets stuck halfway up to the moral outrage it clearly wants to inspire…

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Review of Grandma (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 26 Aug 2015

A smart work where the jokes depend on truths, not punchlines, to work…

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Review of No Escape (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 25 Aug 2015

Reduced to its essence, No Escape gives us one-dimensional American family members struggling to survive faceless, objectified Asians out to…

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Review of Mistress America (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 19 Aug 2015

A merry mashup of vintage Hollywood farce and terse social satire…

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Review of Hitman: Agent 47 (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 19 Aug 2015

Friend cuts a striking, slender action figure, but lacks the resonant vocal qualities and sheer gravitas to carry off a character as formidable…

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Review of American Ultra (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 19 Aug 2015

Crass, shallow, nasty and ugly, American Ultra devolves from a promising graphic-novel-like start into a hard-R-rated bloodbath just cartoony…

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Review of The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 12 Aug 2015

This marks an amazingly auspicious debut for Heller, who adapts Gloeckner's novel with uncompromising and unsettling power, despite its slight…

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Review of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 11 Aug 2015

It would be a mistake to criticize Ritchie's U.N.C.L.E. just because it doesn't faithfully replicate the 1964-68 television series…

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Review of Gemma Bovery (2014)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 05 Aug 2015

Fontaine, who started out with dark psychological dramas, might have considered making Gemma Bovery a comedy…

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Review of The End of the Tour (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 05 Aug 2015

End of the Tour does provide a fascinating insight into the relationship between a smart, semi-fawning journalist and his extremely perceptive…

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Review of Ricki and the Flash (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 05 Aug 2015

If you want to see and hear Streep get down with her Joan Jett self, go for it…

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Review of Fantastic Four (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 05 Aug 2015

Clearly, some superheroes seem much more credible and comfortable on the pages of a Stan Lee comic book than they do in the more literal arena…

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Review of Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 04 Aug 2015

Shaun the Sheep is a sheer delight and an artistic achievement in animation…

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Review of Samba (2014)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 29 Jul 2015

[A] sincere and well-acted romance-tinged immigration drama…

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Review of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 29 Jul 2015

Rogue Nation comes equipped with overwritten, exposition-heavy dialogue that none of the IMF agents would actually say to each other outside…

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