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Review of Room (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 21 Oct 2015

Room begins as a mystery. Slowly, it reveals itself to be a story of survival, first physical, then emotional and psychological…

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Review of The Last Witch Hunter (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 21 Oct 2015

This PG-13 movie has been made for 12-year-olds who prefer frenetic action sequences to genuine emotions and real romance in a game-inspired…

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Review of Goosebumps (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 14 Oct 2015

Goosebumps, despite its enticing title, remains curiously devoid of actual scares and honest emotions…

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Review of Steve Jobs (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 14 Oct 2015

Steve Jobs offers a stirringly sterling performance by Michael Fassbender as the titular visionary, loaded for bear with Aaron Sorkin's Oscar-calibrated…

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Review of Bridge of Spies (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 14 Oct 2015

It's an amazing story, touching and laced with subtle comedy…

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Review of Crimson Peak (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 14 Oct 2015

Wasikowska creates a wonderful heroine with her porcelain features and lily white complexion…

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Review of Endgame (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 07 Oct 2015

[A] staid but well-intentioned after-school special game movie that's been checkmated by clichés…

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Review of Freeheld (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 07 Oct 2015

Freeheld punches all the right buttons as a populist, feeling-good-about-feeling-bad underdog story…

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Review of Endgame (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 07 Oct 2015

[A] staid but well-intentioned after-school special game movie that's been checkmated by clichés…

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Review of Skyfall (2012)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 04 Oct 2015

Skyfall does what no other 007 film has done before; humanize the secret agent by giving him a discernible past, a home turf, a family heritage…

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Review of The Martian (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 30 Sep 2015

Ridley Scott's stunning outer space survival thriller blasts off into the black yonder, hitting us with a kajillion Gs of dramatic pressure…

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Review of Martian (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 30 Sep 2015

Ridley Scott's stunning outer space survival thriller blasts off into the black yonder, hitting us with a kajillion Gs of dramatic pressure…

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Review of 99 Homes (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 30 Sep 2015

Bahrani directs 99 Homes with outrage and a sense of urgency…

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Review of The Walk (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 30 Sep 2015

For half an hour, a man walks across a thin wire over a metropolitan void and we are held spellbound, transfixed and frightened to nausea by…

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Review of The Intern (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 23 Sep 2015

The Intern could have been a tight, funny, lickety-split 85-minute comedy, but Meyers stretches it for more than two hours, with punchy interchanges…

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Review of The Intern (2010)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 23 Sep 2015

The Intern could have been a tight, funny, lickety-split 85-minute comedy, but Meyers stretches it for more than two hours, with punchy interchanges…

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Review of Goodnight Mommy (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 23 Sep 2015

It's a haunting work superbly edited for maximum effect, scored (by Olga Neuwirth) with nerve-jangling precision, and performed with chilling,…

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Review of Everest (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 16 Sep 2015

At its core, the drama plays like a high-grade 1970s disaster movie pumped with eye-popping IMAX 3-D imagery that does wonders for breathtakingly…

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Review of Black Mass (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 16 Sep 2015

Johnny Depp's transformative shift into feared Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger marks a career high for the actor who has finally regained his…

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Review of The Visit (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 09 Sep 2015

The Visit may be flawed, but viewed as a comedy, it traffics more in archetypical characters than realistic ones, and goes for the joke or…

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