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Review of Broken Embraces (2009)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Jan 2010

This melancholy romance is the first Almodovar feature I've ever really liked, an expertly fashioned melodrama that steers mercifully clear…

Review of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 07 Jan 2010

The behind-the-scenes tragedy gives Gilliam an easy excuse for the dull chaos that engulfs the story, but he might have generated it all on his own…

Review of Year One (1974)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 05 Jan 2010

Creatively it's a giant step backwards, with Jack Black and Michael Cera playing to the kids as inept hunter-gatherers who stumble across various…

Review of Year One (2009)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 05 Jan 2010

Creatively it's a giant step backwards, with Jack Black and Michael Cera playing to the kids as inept hunter-gatherers who stumble across various…

Review of Nine (2009)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 28 Dec 2009

It's a movie about a musical about a movie about a man's inner life -- surely we can eliminate some of the middle men…

Review of Sherlock Holmes (2009)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 28 Dec 2009

The very idea of handing him over to professional lad Guy Ritchie, to be played as a punch-throwing quipster by Robert Downey Jr., is so profoundly…

Review of Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 21 Dec 2009

Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker are assigned to a witness protection program, flown to Wyoming, and installed in a one-horse town where…

Review of The House of the Devil (2009)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 17 Dec 2009

In keeping with his models, West is concerned with not suspense exactly but the ritual withholding and ultimate lavishing of bloody chaos…

Review of Paranormal Activity (2007)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 15 Dec 2009

The climax is deliciously scary, and Peli gets considerable mileage from the simple matter of lights inexplicably going on in another room…

Review of Invictus (2009)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 11 Dec 2009

Anthony Peckham's script is formulaic, woodenly reverent, and devoid of real dramatic tension…

Review of Up in the Air (2009)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 04 Dec 2009

Reitman deserves credit for going through with a bitterly ironic ending, but the movie is marred by its warm condescension toward flyover country…

Review of Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 25 Nov 2009

Like the rest of his movies, this one is essentially infantile -- but when you're telling the story of a ne'er-do-well fox conspiring against…

Review of The Messenger (2009)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 25 Nov 2009

Whenever writer-director Oren Moverman moves past these scattered and admittedly voyeuristic moments into the lives of the two soldiers, the…

Review of Chicken Little (1943)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 Nov 2009

Animation fans will find this worth the wait, though apparently there's no story-generating software that can tap into the dark recesses of…

Review of Home on the Range (2004)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 Nov 2009

Assorted movie in-jokes should keep parents tolerably entertained, and Alan Menken's songs mercifully favor western swing over the expected twang pop…

Review of Chicken Little (2005)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 Nov 2009

Animation fans will find this worth the wait, though apparently there's no story-generating software that can tap into the dark recesses of…

Review of Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire (2009)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Nov 2009

The girl's story is almost unbearably painful, and when Precious finally reclaims her dignity and self-worth, her accomplishment seems genuinely…

Review of The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Nov 2009

Clooney and Bridges model an assortment of wigs and facial hair as they labor to put across their outsize characters…

Review of Bronson (2009)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 30 Oct 2009

Refn presents this jolly madman in a variety of showbiz fantasies (wearing clown makeup, addressing a packed theater) to tease out the weird…

Review of The Damned United (2009)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 22 Oct 2009

[Michael Sheen] adds to his gallery of public figures (Tony Blair, David Frost) with a sharp performance here as the legendary UK soccer coach…

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