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Review of The Founder (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 19 Jan 2017

Watch Keaton carefully, for his sly performance suggests Kroc realizes exactly what he's doing, and doesn't concern himself with questions…

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Review of Split (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 19 Jan 2017

James McAvoy plays 24 personalities in Split, and you can't be sure if M…

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Review of Monster Trucks (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 12 Jan 2017

A lot could be forgiven in Monster Trucks had Tripp and Creech established a convincing E.T./Elliot bond…

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Review of Live by Night (2016)

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

Periodic gunfights, beatings, car chases and assassinations prop up the drama, a joyless experience that takes itself, and especially its leading…

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Review of A Monster Calls (2016)

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

A Monster Calls conjures fantasy and spectacle, painting the screen with vibrant, colorful, sometimes dreamy and nightmarish images that pump…

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Review of Sing (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 20 Dec 2016

In a year in which major animated features impart themes far more sophisticated than the tired follow your dreams bromide, Sing constitutes…

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Review of Sing (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 20 Dec 2016

In a year in which major animated features impart themes far more sophisticated than the tired follow your dreams bromide, Sing constitutes…

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Review of La La Land (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 15 Dec 2016

The breathless 5 1/2-minute opening musical number in Damien Chazelle's La La Land is worth the price of admission all by itself…

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Review of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 13 Dec 2016

[Rogue One has] well-placed humor, inside jokes, aliens, droids and creepy CGI renderings of two key Star Wars characters, all set against…

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Review of Miss Sloane (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 08 Dec 2016

Chastain performs the most precarious balancing act of her career so far: infusing a rigid, unlikable, self-absorbed lobbyist with just enough…

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Review of Jackie (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 07 Dec 2016

Jackie is a triumph of production design, period costuming and vintage cars and props, all captured by Stephane Fontaine's formal camera lens…

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Review of Man Down (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 01 Dec 2016

The stilted artifice of Man Down never allows us to believe what we're watching, except for LaBeouf…

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Review of Manchester by the Sea (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 29 Nov 2016

Lonergan capitalizes on Affleck's vulnerability in a textured, cliche-free portrait of human survival without a conventional ending…

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Review of Moana (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 22 Nov 2016

A contemporary musical adventure that defies a few antiquated Disney conventions while exploiting a few others that still work…

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Review of The Edge of Seventeen (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 17 Nov 2016

The Edge of Seventeen is a dialogue delight, an enjoyably funny romp through the emotional and social minefields of high school adolescence…

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Review of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 17 Nov 2016

Wisely, Lee anchors his movie with the appealing Alwyn, whose accessibility humanizes this war story loaded with one-dimensional characters…

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Review of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 16 Nov 2016

Fantastic Beasts seems less an extension of Harry Potter's universe than a Hollywood attempt to lay the foundation for another standard-issue,…

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Review of Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 03 Nov 2016

Garfield, in a fiercely committed performance, projects a mix of unwavering principal and emotional vulnerability…

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Review of Doctor Strange (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 01 Nov 2016

Humorously quirky and visually spellbinding, Doctor Strange ranks as one of the best executed Marvel Comics movies, up there with Iron Man,…

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Review of Moonlight (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 26 Oct 2016

Barry Jenkins' character study Moonlight proves to be every bit as luminous, mysterious and elemental as its title…

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