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Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 22 Oct 2014

It's the kind of daring, accomplished work that critics and Oscar voters notice -- along with all the other delectable cinematic elements to…

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Review of John Wick (2014)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 22 Oct 2014

Adorned with a shiny suit, sharp-toed shoes and matted, unkempt hair, Reeves moves like a greased bullet through this action film beaming with…

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Review of Whiplash (2014)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 15 Oct 2014

The explosive, ingeniously constructed mentor-from-hell drama Whiplash gives durable character actor J.K…

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Review of Rudderless (2014)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 15 Oct 2014

The music sounds fine, but Macy's iffy direction prevents Rudderless from becoming more than a quasi-pleasing, mediocre first effort from a…

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Review of The Best of Me (2014)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 15 Oct 2014

The Best of Me contains the nucleus of an inventive short story with a kicker finale…

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Review of St. Vincent (2014)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 15 Oct 2014

St. Vincent thrives or dies on the relationship between Murray and Lieberher…

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Review of The Judge (2014)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 08 Oct 2014

These all sound like perfect ingredients for a meaty Midwest family drama, but under Dobkin's delinquent direction, The Judge is never as humorous…

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Review of The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 05 Oct 2014

An amazing, tidy little thriller that, like its Escher-like movie poster, gleefully turns the horror genre upside down…

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Review of The Boxtrolls (2014)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 24 Sep 2014

You might expect that a stop-motion animated comedy all about little trolls in boxes would occasionally think outside of them…

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Review of The Drop (1965)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 10 Sep 2014

The dramatically explosive ending of The Drop more than justifies its long, long fuse, resulting in two Big Bangs that create not a moral universe,…

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Review of The Drop (2006)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 10 Sep 2014

The dramatically explosive ending of The Drop more than justifies its long, long fuse, resulting in two Big Bangs that create not a moral universe,…

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Review of The Drop (2014)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 10 Sep 2014

The dramatically explosive ending of The Drop more than justifies its long, long fuse, resulting in two Big Bangs that create not a moral universe,…

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Review of Falcon Rising (2014)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 03 Sep 2014

To the movie's detriment, White doesn't get to show us what he can really do until 30 minutes into the story, then again near the end when…

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Review of The Last of Robin Hood (2013)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 03 Sep 2014

A relentlessly conventional tale of a sensational sex scandal as only Lifetime Films can sell it…

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Review of Yves Saint Laurent (2014)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 27 Aug 2014

The resulting bio-drama feels like any other generic formula self-destructive artist tale, one that captures the surface of Saint Laurent,…

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Review of Love Is Strange (2014)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 27 Aug 2014

It falls to Lithgow and Molina to create empathy for the major characters, and the two of them fit so well together that it's heartbreaking…

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Review of Bridesmaids (2011)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 23 Aug 2014

Bridesmaids produces frequent waves of hilarious vulgarity as it tells a sweet, endearing story about a woman suffering through a pre-mid-life crisis…

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Review of The Trip to Italy (2014)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 20 Aug 2014

A virtual duplication of the original Trip experience…

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Review of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 20 Aug 2014

In Sin City, the prose is purple (She slips out of her coat like it's Christmas wrapping) and the cons are plentiful…

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Review of If I Stay (2014)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 20 Aug 2014

[If I Stay] turns a comatose teen's out-of-body experience into such a bland and pedestrian experience, it's out-of-mind soon after the closing…

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