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Review of Hostiles (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 04 Jan 2018

Pike dominates Cooper's draggy, elegant movie with a brutal performance so raw and real it sears the heart…

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Review of Insidious: The Last Key (2018)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 04 Jan 2018

Here, new director Adam Robitel and series writer/star Leigh Whannel fine-tune the art of the jump-scare by strategically executing the jolts…

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Review of The Post (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 03 Jan 2018

Spielberg, now 70, rammed this production through in record time and directs The Post with the enthusiasm of an artist half his age…

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Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 13 Dec 2017

The Last Jedi suffers from occasional inconsistencies in character and plot, but these quibbles are easily absorbed into the impressively vast…

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Review of Darkest Hour (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 08 Dec 2017

Gary Oldman's transformative portrayal of Winston Churchill in Joe Wright's Darkest Hour achieves the same rarefied orbit as Marlon Brando's…

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Review of The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 22 Nov 2017

Christopher Plummer's humbugged-to-the-max take on the immortal miser easily ranks as the most nuanced and memorable interpretation since Alastair…

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Review of Coco (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 21 Nov 2017

It packs a couple of didn't see that coming moments, and closes with an obligatory family reunion emanating such joyous emotion, its deficiencies…

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Review of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 16 Nov 2017

Rockwell is fearless in exploring this hissable Id-with-a-badge, down to showing us what makes him tick like a time bomb…

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Review of Justice League (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 15 Nov 2017

This must go down as the single stupidest, big-budget superhero motion picture ever unleashed upon an unsuspecting public by a major Hollywood studio…

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Review of Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 08 Nov 2017

As an actor, Branagh plies his sleuth with welcome humor and curmudgeonly charm. As a director, he moves the action well…

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Review of Suburbicon (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 26 Oct 2017

Clooney takes on the bold challenge of blending two seemingly incongruent genres -- classic film noir and hard-hitting civil rights drama --…

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Review of Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 18 Oct 2017

Goodbye proves to be an aggressive tear-jerker, a manipulative and overwrought biopic that bounces like a bipolar Tigger between an upbeat…

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Review of The Snowman (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 18 Oct 2017

[The Snowman] is dull, inane, humorless, suspenseless, confusing and contrived…

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Review of Only the Brave (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 17 Oct 2017

Apparently, the Prescott firefighters didn't experience movie cliches in real life, because -- outside of the obligatory radio singalong on…

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Review of Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 11 Oct 2017

This amazingly tasteful movie, written/directed by Chicago native Angela Robinson, explores this real-life superhero origin story with sharp…

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Review of Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 04 Oct 2017

As you can tell, Mark Felt didn't lack for intriguing material. Just intriguing execution…

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Review of Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 03 Oct 2017

Blade Runner 2049 explodes on the silver screen as a stunning achievement…

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Review of California Typewriter (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 27 Sep 2017

Doug Nichol's handsomely packaged, if slightly myopic, documentary California Typewriter waxes poetic…

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Review of Victoria & Abdul (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 27 Sep 2017

Victoria & Abdul feels like Downton Abbey Lite, a chamber drama of manners, minus the raw conflict necessary to elevate this material to any…

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Review of American Made (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 26 Sep 2017

What does work well is [Tom] Cruise's winning performance as a corrupt capitalist whose love of country and family ranks considerably lower…

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