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Review of Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 May 2015

Nearly all of these developments wind up onscreen, but that only goes to show how the most faithful adaptation, by emphasizing some things…

Review of Black Souls (2014)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 May 2015

Writer-director Franceso Munzi has particularized the familial relationships enough for it to stand on its own…

Review of Queen & Country (2015)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 May 2015

Don't let the British pedigree and nostalgic trimmings fool you: this is no Masterpiece Theatre exercise but a broad, high-spirited, riotously…

Review of Welcome to Me (2015)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 May 2015

Screenwriter Eliot Laurence and director Shira Piven…

Review of Tangerines (2013)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 29 Apr 2015

Writer-director Zaza Urushadze turns this fragile premise into a superior chamber drama…

Review of Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 29 Apr 2015

At this point the Marvel superhero movies are as machine-tooled as a Prius, and this one sticks closely to the blueprint that's made them box…

Review of Adult Beginners (2014)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 22 Apr 2015

The early scenes are acidly funny... By the end, though, this has turned into a Tim Allen movie…

Review of Dior and I (2015)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 22 Apr 2015

A few gauzy montages of black-and-white archival footage glorify the fashion house's founder and namesake, providing a welcome interruption…

Review of The Water Diviner (2014)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 22 Apr 2015

Some formulaic elements creep into the story but it's anchored by the grim realities of the first modern war and a sweeping humanism reminiscent…

Review of Little Boy (2015)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 22 Apr 2015

Emily Watson plays the boy's mother and Tom Wilkinson turns up as a gentle parish priest, so this must have looked better on paper than it…

Review of Ex Machina (2015)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 15 Apr 2015

Its aura of cool menace is largely attributable to Isaac, stealing his every scene as the smoothly bullying CEO, and production designer Mark…

Review of Cheatin' (2014)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Apr 2015

Bill Plympton's latest feature-length animation, about a loving couple riven by infidelity, contains some of his loveliest fantasy sequences,…

Review of Human Capital (2013)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Apr 2015

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi contributes an affecting performance as the rich boy's spiritually bereft mother, whose self-worth has been smothered…

Review of The Salt of the Earth (2014)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Apr 2015

For this career-spanning documentary, director Wim Wenders accompanies the photographer on his travels, the color documentary footage punctuated…

Review of Man from Reno (2014)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Apr 2015

Writer-director Dave Boyle is best known for his offbeat rom-coms with San Francisco musician Goh Nakamura (Surrogate Valentine, Daylight Savings),…

Review of Get Hard (2015)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 26 Mar 2015

Anal rape jokes and racial stereotypes dominate this third-rate comedy…

Review of Spring (2014)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 19 Mar 2015

The protagonist of this low-budget indie is so well characterized that it might have developed into a straight drama instead of the horror…

Review of Insurgent (2015)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 19 Mar 2015

[Woodley] spends much of the second [film] captured by the society's merciless overlord (Kate Winslet) and locked into a psychoactive contraption…

Review of Seymour: An Introduction (2015)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 19 Mar 2015

The movie's real subject is the difficulty -- and the critical importance -- of bringing into harmony one's personal and artistic lives, of…

Review of Spring (2014)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 19 Mar 2015

The protagonist of this low-budget indie is so well characterized that it might have developed into a straight drama instead of the horror…

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