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Review of Colossal (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 12 Apr 2017

Hathaway is miscast in a snarky role that Anna Kendrick would have knocked out of the park, but the players are less important here than Vigalondo's…

Review of Gifted (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 12 Apr 2017

As scripted, Evelyn is too vicious to be persuasive, and Flynn undercuts her morally by stressing her lust for recognition…

Review of American Anarchist (2016)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 12 Apr 2017

[Powell] comes off as a tragic figure: a teacher haunted by his most spectacular lesson, and a man of learning who, where his own guilt was…

Review of Going in Style (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 05 Apr 2017

Braff races through the planning and execution of the robbery, probably because the original film's premise seems even more far-fetched in…

Review of Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened... (2016)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 30 Mar 2017

More impressively, Price has incorporated the retrospective theme into his documentary with a second act in which the performers reveal the…

Review of Obit (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 30 Mar 2017

Gould secures plenty of nuts-and-bolts detail about the reporting and writing process, which can range from novelistic use of detail to the…

Review of The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 29 Mar 2017

Once the Nazis roll in and shoot all the critters, the movie begins to feel like a budget version of Schindler's List and drifts away into…

Review of Song to Song (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Mar 2017

This is the one with Ryan Gosling, and like Terrence Malick's two previous dramas it's a gauzy, improvised affair that looks like a photo essay…

Review of T2 Trainspotting (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Mar 2017

Bad sequels try to re-create the original movie; good ones explore its narrative consequences. That's certainly the case with T2…

Review of Wilson (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Mar 2017

Craig Johnson, coming to this project from his indie success The Skeleton Twins, can't find the heart in this fractured, disappointed family…

Review of Raw (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Mar 2017

This gruesome French horror flick (2016) functions more as a mystery than as an action film, with an endless drip drip drip of revelation that…

Review of Wilson (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Mar 2017

Craig Johnson, coming to this project from his indie success The Skeleton Twins, can't find the heart in this fractured, disappointed family…

Review of Uncertain (2015)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 Mar 2017

The most interesting of them by far is Wayne…

Review of Ethel & Ernest (2016)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 Mar 2017

At times the movie threatens to melt into a pool of bulldog nostalgia, but it's rescued by a wealth of authentic social detail, especially…

Review of The Last Word (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Mar 2017

Director Mark Pellington and first-time screenwriter Stuart Ross Fink lack Weitz's sense of taboo-busting mischief, opting instead for the…

Review of Kong: Skull Island (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Mar 2017

For no reason I can fathom, except perhaps the classic-rock tunes desired for the soundtrack-the story takes place in 1973, when the Vietnam…

Review of Fist Fight (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Mar 2017

Screenwriters Van Robichaux, Evan Susser, and Max Greenfield raise the satirical ante with a nicely jaundiced view of the school, which is…

Review of The Sense of an Ending (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Mar 2017

The melodrama alone conveys the writer's conviction that even in old age one's understanding of life can be swept away in an instant…

Review of Personal Shopper (2016)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Mar 2017

What gives the story its spooky resonance, however, is a confluence between the unmoored exploration of the protagonist's spiritualism and…

Review of Get Out (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Mar 2017

Jordan Peele makes his directing debut with a horror movie that sticks closely to genre convention even as its ribbing of white liberals hardens…

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