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Review of The Dark Horse (2014)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 13 Apr 2016

We've seen a thousand mentor-making-a-difference movies before, but not like this one…

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Review of The Jungle Book (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 13 Apr 2016

Jungle Book merges these astonishing visuals with classic Disney story conventions to create a movie that stands on its own achievements, while…

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Review of Criminal (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 13 Apr 2016

A cornball thriller that squanders a cast of Oscar-caliber filmmakers and sets back the science of stem-cell research a whole millennium…

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Review of The Adderall Diaries (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 13 Apr 2016

The Adderall Diaries starts as a drama about a bad case of writer's block before it morphs into an essay on the unreliable nature of memory…

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Review of The Boss (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 06 Apr 2016

The Boss may be a better written, tighter comedy than Tammy, the first feature directed by McCarthy's husband Falcone, but it's still a hollow…

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Review of Remember (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 06 Apr 2016

Plummer's perfectly pitched performance as the vulnerable Zev, struggling to retain his mind more than minding his mission, provides all the…

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Review of Miles Ahead (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 06 Apr 2016

[It] comes so close to being an insightful window into the life and soul of this amazing musician, but remains a superficial, furiously episodic…

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Review of Remember (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 06 Apr 2016

Plummer's perfectly pitched performance as the vulnerable Zev, struggling to retain his mind more than minding his mission, provides all the…

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Review of Demolition (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 06 Apr 2016

This might have been a more powerful story, and certainly a more relatable one, had Mitchell been a working class stiff who didn't have the…

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Review of Remember (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 06 Apr 2016

Plummer's perfectly pitched performance as the vulnerable Zev, struggling to retain his mind more than minding his mission, provides all the…

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Review of The Boss (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 06 Apr 2016

The Boss may be a better written, tighter comedy than Tammy, the first feature directed by McCarthy's husband Falcone, but it's still a hollow…

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Review of I Saw the Light (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 30 Mar 2016

Hiddleston obviously invested a lot of time and study into preparing for this role, only to have it be swallowed up by a tired, generic Hollywood…

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Review of My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 24 Mar 2016

Some jokes and sight gags in this un-awaited sequel are so desperate, so cloying and so artificially manufactured that they smother what little…

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Review of Eye in the Sky (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 17 Mar 2016

What South African director Gavin Hood and his filmmakers do with the military drone drama Eye in the Sky is nothing short of astonishing…

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Review of Chasing Gold (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 17 Mar 2016

Precious Mettle turns out to be a much smarter, more sincerely rendered crime melodrama than you might imagine for an ultra-independent production…

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Review of Creative Control (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 17 Mar 2016

In creating a social satire, Dickinson doesn't find much comic relief in Creative Control…

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Review of The Bronze (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 17 Mar 2016

Despite a full-throttle performance by Rauch (who has the character's natural athletic swagger down pat), Hope is one tough cookie to hang…

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Review of Eye in the Sky (2007)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 17 Mar 2016

What South African director Gavin Hood and his filmmakers do with the military drone drama Eye in the Sky is nothing short of astonishing…

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Review of Knight of Cups (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 10 Mar 2016

The effect is like looking at a portrait of passion instead of a portrait of people feeling passionate. The humanity feels one step removed…

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Review of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 03 Mar 2016

Co-directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa botch the juxtaposition of comic and dramatic elements in Whiskey Tango Foxtrot…

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