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Review of CHiPs (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 23 Mar 2017

What we get with CHiPs -- Dax Shepard's randy, R-rated take on the blandly inoffensive 1977 NBC TV series -- is the sort of lowbrow action…

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Review of Beauty and the Beast (2017)

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

Condon's visually opulent, slower-tempo movie mostly succeeds, with a few embellishments tossed in to spice up its nostalgia quotient…

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Review of Brimstone (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 09 Mar 2017

A grim and unsavory tale of female empowerment with the kind of her-head-is-bloodied-but-unbowed ending you feel compelled to applaud, but…

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Review of The Last Word (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 09 Mar 2017

Nothing happens here we don't see coming. Still, MacLaine makes it work well on arrival…

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Review of Kong: Skull Island (2017)

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

Skull Island knows what makes an old-fashioned monster movie work, mainly lots of monsters. Some fly. Some swim. Some have big teeth…

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Review of Before I Fall (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 02 Mar 2017

As Lindsay, Sage handles the heavy lifting in this cast, giving what could have been a one-dimensional B-queen a vulnerable, frightened interior…

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Review of Logan (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 01 Mar 2017

Logan makes for a better character study than superhero adventure…

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Review of The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 23 Feb 2017

The Girl With All the Gifts finds a fresh, gutsy approach to the zombie virus apocalypse movie…

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Review of Rock Dog (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 23 Feb 2017

Unlike in Pixar and Disney features, they also don't raise the bar much beyond the level of cartoons packed with flashy action sequences and…

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Review of Kedi (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 23 Feb 2017

[Torun] and her filmmaking team do things the hard, interesting way…

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Review of Get Out (2017)

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

Get Out performs a service that only high-end horror and comedy films (plus some science-fiction) can: present a disturbingly honest, critical…

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Review of Fist Fight (2017)

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

The insipid high school comedy Fist Fight celebrates and exploits the very ideas that it should be ridiculing for comic effect…

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Review of A United Kingdom (2016)

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

At the end of the movie, a crawl tells us of the amazing accomplishments Seretse and Ruth did in their later years…

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Review of John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 09 Feb 2017

Not since the John Woo-inspired Lethal Weapon have fight segments so delightfully surprised us with their lyrical movement, raw force and explosive…

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Review of The Adventure Club (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 09 Feb 2017

Adventure Club has its heart in the right place (its message of forgiveness for reformed bullies and apologetic family betrayers is admirable),…

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Review of The Lego Batman Movie (2017)

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

The creators of The Lego Batman Movie could never have anticipated that their manic, animated kids' toy comedy would become the most prescient,…

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Review of The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 02 Feb 2017

Cox and Hirsch lend marvelous gravitas to their father-and-son team, whose reactions to the unfolding mystery pile on the ominous sense of…

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Review of Gold (2017)

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

McConaughey's impassioned portrait of a capitalistic risk-taker can't overcome Gaghan's lethargic pacing and studied style, despite the screenplay…

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Review of Gold (2016)

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

McConaughey's impassioned portrait of a capitalistic risk-taker can't overcome Gaghan's lethargic pacing and studied style, despite the screenplay…

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Review of A Dog's Purpose (2017)

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

A cute, funny, risky movie that, in lesser hands, wouldn't work…

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