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Review of Zootopia (2016)

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

This wild and comic political twist on Animal Farm works for both kids and adults as a reaffirmation of equal justice and opportunity while…

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Review of Eddie the Eagle (2016)

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

[An] overwritten, overscored, inspirational, fact-based formula sports underdog comedy…

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Review of Jack of the Red Hearts (2016)

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

A few POV shots provide us with insight and empathy…

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Review of Snowtime! (2015)

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

Snowtime! wants to be much more than a Saturday morning animated distraction…

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Review of The Witch (2016)

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

Not since Stanley Kubrick's The Shining -- a key inspiration for Eggers -- has a motion picture been pumped with so much ominous dread…

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Review of Race (2016)

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

At its core, Race remains a conventional sports biopic, but one beautifully ensconced in period fashions, vehicles and props, crowned with…

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Review of Zoolander 2 (2016)

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

It's not as funny as you might think. Then again, this movie isn't very funny, as it doesn't think…

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Review of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)

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

P&P&Z early on exhausts the intrigue of its daring literary/horror mash-up premise and squanders its promise of a super sexy, very scary and…

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Review of Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 28 Jan 2016

Could it be possible that a second sequel can be as good or better than its slightly above-average original? Kung Fu Panda 3 says yes…

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Review of The Finest Hours (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 28 Jan 2016

Scenes run on and on, begging to be trimmed so that this cinematic vessel can become one tight ship…

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Review of 45 Years (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 22 Jan 2016

Rampling and Courtenay have little to do beyond appear glum and forlorn as their characters slog through an airless screenplay begging for…

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Review of The Lady in the Van (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 22 Jan 2016

Probably worked much better on a stage than it does in the more literal medium of movies…

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Review of Mustang (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 14 Jan 2016

Erguven, an actress as well as a writer and director, presents a quiet, keenly observed drama that gently unfolds at its proper pace…

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Review of Norm of the North (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 14 Jan 2016

We had to wait 12 months to see the dumbest and most superficial animated kid's comedy of 2015. In 2016, we only had to wait 15 days…

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Review of The Revenant (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 07 Jan 2016

Inarritu's gutsy, risky drama with its hard-boiled characters and vividly explicit acts of violence combines a classic Western revenge tale…

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Review of Anomalisa (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 07 Jan 2016

I have seen Charlie Kaufman's stop-motion, animated drama Anomalisa twice, and both times the sheer technical skill of this motion picture…

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Review of Carol (1974)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 29 Dec 2015

From Highsmith's bold story, Haynes fashions a remarkable study of emotions brought to life by two of the best movie performances of the year…

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Review of Carol (1970)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 29 Dec 2015

From Highsmith's bold story, Haynes fashions a remarkable study of emotions brought to life by two of the best movie performances of the year…

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Review of Carol (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 29 Dec 2015

From Highsmith's bold story, Haynes fashions a remarkable study of emotions brought to life by two of the best movie performances of the year…

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Review of Carol (1990)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 29 Dec 2015

From Highsmith's bold story, Haynes fashions a remarkable study of emotions brought to life by two of the best movie performances of the year…

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