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Review of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 27 Aug 2014

Reviewers were forbidden from posting a word about this sequel until opening day, lest we give away the shocking secret that it's a carbon…

Review of The November Man (2014)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 27 Aug 2014

Director Roger Donaldson has had his ups and downs over the past few years; the script for this lodges somewhere in the middle, though he compensates…

Review of When the Game Stands Tall (2014)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 20 Aug 2014

[The film] makes a commendable effort to invest the inspirational sports movie with some deeper meaning but simultaneously labors to keep all…

Review of Moebius (2013)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 20 Aug 2014

[Moebius] would be easy to dismiss if Kim weren't so sincere and sober in pursuit of his Oedipal and other emotional concerns…

Review of The Giver (2014)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 13 Aug 2014

Incredibly, this screen adaptation is rated PG-13, which means that parents, who will probably find it excruciatingly simpleminded, are cautioned…

Review of Dinosaur 13 (2014)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 13 Aug 2014

Private excavation and sale of fossils is a more complicated issue than this heavily slanted account would have you believe…

Review of Half of a Yellow Sun (2013)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Aug 2014

Biyi Bandele has excerpted their story from a much wider-ranging narrative, but the action here is still so tightly compressed that this feels…

Review of Calvary (2014)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Aug 2014

Gleeson brings his usual fierceness and gravity to the role, and there are fine supporting turns by Chris O'Dowd, Kelly Reilly, Aiden Gillen,…

Review of The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Aug 2014

I'll spare you my usual rant about the decadence of foodies, but it should be obvious by now that, despite their discerning tastes, the movies…

Review of Lucy (2014)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 30 Jul 2014

No one has ever accused French action director Luc Besson of thinking too hard, and this frantic exercise in pseudoscience and goofball metaphysics…

Review of And So It Goes (2014)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Jul 2014

Old people still go out to movie theaters, God bless them, though the meaty fare they enjoyed back in the 70s has given way to soft foods like…

Review of Mood Indigo (2013)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Jul 2014

French filmmaker Michel Gondry has demonstrated time and again that, despite his prodigious visual imagination, he can't tell a decent story…

Review of Magic in the Moonlight (2014)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Jul 2014

Woody Allen on autopilot, disappearing into the jazz age again for a blunt, listless thesis film about the limits of rationality…

Review of I Origins (2014)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Jul 2014

Mike Cahill's movies are categorized as science fiction, but the scientific elements in them are subsidiary to his characters and, more importantly,…

Review of Boyhood (1951)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 Jul 2014

Linklater's writing is typically warm and insightful, and the cast is uniformly excellent, including Ellar Coltrane as the quiet, down-to-earth hero…

Review of Wish I Was Here (2014)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 Jul 2014

The earlier, comedic scenes work a lot better than the later, dramatic ones, thanks mainly to Braff's wide-eyed, deadpan performance and good…

Review of Boyhood (2014)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 Jul 2014

Linklater's writing is typically warm and insightful, and the cast is uniformly excellent, including Ellar Coltrane as the quiet, down-to-earth hero…

Review of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Jul 2014

The human characters (played by Gary Oldman, Jason Clarke, and Keri Russell, among others) are so bland they don't stand a chance against their…

Review of Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (2013)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Jul 2014

[Filmmaker Nicholas D…

Review of Elena (2013)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Jul 2014

The movie becomes a defiant reversal of that sentiment, an act of creation in the face of death…

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