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Review of Identity Thief (2013)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Feb 2013

[Identity Thief] exhausts most of the comic potential from identity theft in the first 20 minutes and then turns into a solid but unexceptional…

Review of Side Effects (2015)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 07 Feb 2013

This neatly executed mystery is just the sort of thing Hollywood craves from Steven Soderbergh: genre entertainment as cool, clean, and impersonal…

Review of Side Effects (2013)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 07 Feb 2013

This neatly executed mystery is just the sort of thing Hollywood craves from Steven Soderbergh: genre entertainment as cool, clean, and impersonal…

Review of Stolen Seas (2013)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Feb 2013

Digs deep into the subject of piracy, arguing that it's less an anachronism than a sign of the times…

Review of Bullet to the Head (2012)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 04 Feb 2013

Hill's eye for back alley scuzz is as strong as ever, but the story, adapted from a French graphic novel by Alexis Nolent, is so die-cut it…

Review of Gangster Squad (2013)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 Jan 2013

Apart from the gore -- and there's plenty -- this is basically L.A. Confidential without the script…

Review of Amour (2012)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 Jan 2013

[Haneke] has put his finger on a very particular kind of heartbreak: seeing a lover give up not on you but on the life you've shared…

Review of The Invisible War (2012)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 07 Jan 2013

This travesty has been encouraged by a military culture that blames the victim and a policy directing soldiers to refer complaints to their…

Review of Rust and Bone (2012)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 03 Jan 2013

The masterful writer-director Jacques Audiard draws vivid performances from Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts for this gripping French…

Review of Promised Land (2012)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 03 Jan 2013

A love triangle involving the two men and a local schoolteacher (Rosemarie DeWitt) seems more like a commercial necessity than an integral…

Review of Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 03 Jan 2013

At the very least Bigelow has widened her reach past the white-knuckle thrills of The Hurt Locker and into the darkest currents of American…

Review of Django Unchained (2012)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 21 Dec 2012

Like the earlier movie, in which Jewish-American soldiers assassinate Hitler, this one draws heavily on minority group revenge fantasy, the…

Review of The Guilt Trip (2012)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 21 Dec 2012

Rogen and Streisand are reasonably funny together, though Rogen, always best when he's angry, is crowded into the role of a well-mannered straight…

Review of Playing for Keeps (2012)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 Dec 2012

Dennis Quaid hammers away at a nothing role as Thurman's husband, an adulterous alpha dog; it's nearly identical to the one he played earlier…

Review of The Central Park Five (2012)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Dec 2012

The film offers a snapshot of the white hysteria then gripping the city, which was stoked by the tabloids and resulted in police and prosecutors…

Review of A Christmas Story (1983)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 05 Dec 2012

Shepherd provides the voice-over of the grown hero narrating, and his prominence on the sound track forces Clark to focus on visual humor,…

Review of Killing Them Softly (2012)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 29 Nov 2012

The Louisiana locations are appropriately cruddy, and the occasional scenes of violence are frightening, visceral, and beautifully photographed…

Review of Tales of the Night (2011)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 21 Nov 2012

The movie never comes close to replicating the spell that Reiniger was able to cast using much more primitive techniques, which underlines…

Review of Hitchcock (2012)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 21 Nov 2012

The movie opens with a goofy sequence mimicking the TV show, so you know immediately that this will be as lightweight and undemanding a Hollywood…

Review of Anna Karenina (2012)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 Nov 2012

Without Tolsoy's profound interior narration, Anna Karenina is just a soap opera, and for some reason director Joe Wright has decided to compound…

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