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Review of Now You See Me 2 (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 08 Jun 2016

Even after the heroes explain their most elaborate and complex tricks, you still need a hit of Advil to combat the confusion and headaches…

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Review of The Conjuring 2 (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 08 Jun 2016

The Conjuring 2 demands to be seen within the communal confines of a real theater where patrons scream, shriek, shudder and shake in unison,…

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Review of Careful What You Wish For (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 08 Jun 2016

Careful What You Wish For hails from the grand tradition of sexy thrillers such as Double Indemnity and Body Heat, yet never quite works up…

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Review of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 02 Jun 2016

A generic, action-heavy movie that looks and feels like other Michael Bay-produced CGI action movies emulating video game visuals at the expense…

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Review of Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 01 Jun 2016

A lewd, frequently hilarious six-minute Saturday Night Live segment s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d to an ultra-tenuous 86-minute Spinal Tap wannabe…

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Review of Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 25 May 2016

Where Carroll's Through the Looking Glass celebrated fantasy and un-logical fun, Bobin's sequel pushes real-world problems on to the residents…

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Review of Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 18 May 2016

Intelligence isn't always a character virtue from summer comedies…

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Review of The Nice Guys (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 18 May 2016

The Nice Guys may not be Chinatown, but it could be an updated Lethal Weapon…

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Review of Being Charlie (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 11 May 2016

Nothing in Rob Reiner's well-intentioned, cautionary domestic drug drama feels authentic, genuine or sincere…

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Review of Money Monster (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 11 May 2016

Money Monster reverberates with echoes of Network and Dog Day Afternoon with a Big Short vibe, yet its quick discoveries and narrative shortcuts…

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Review of The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 04 May 2016

Although both Patel and Irons slip effortlessly into the skins of their characters, their performances are stuck in another standard-issue…

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Review of The Family Fang (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 04 May 2016

A key revelation in the mystery feels inserted for effect (no spoilers here) and the drama plays out at a pace that merely flirts with lethargy…

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Review of Captain America: Civil War (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 02 May 2016

A good amount of self-aware humor permeates the challenging two-hour, 26-minute running time of this movie…

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Review of Dough (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 27 Apr 2016

This is the stuff of sheer sitcom, yet Goldschmidt makes Dough a half-baked comedy that avoids going to the zany, crisply edited level of nuttiness…

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Review of Papa Hemingway in Cuba (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 27 Apr 2016

These performances lack chemistry and spontaneity, as evidenced by the stagy, unconvincing climactic confrontation between the writer, his…

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Review of Mother's Day (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 27 Apr 2016

Mother's Day is an abysmal mess, a misconceived symphony of artificial emotions playing our heart strings with a sledgehammer…

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Review of Mother's Day (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 27 Apr 2016

Mother's Day is an abysmal mess, a misconceived symphony of artificial emotions playing our heart strings with a sledgehammer…

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Review of The Meddler (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 27 Apr 2016

Scafaria's comic drama can be corny and sitcomy at times, yet its characters feel grounded and real, and Sarandon's performance genuine and…

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Review of Green Room (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 20 Apr 2016

Saulnier gave us the sharply detailed, offbeat art house thriller Blue Ruin in 2013…

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Review of Sing Street (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 20 Apr 2016

A modest, playful, beguiling coming-of-age musical set in the 1980s Ireland of Carney's formative youth…

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