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Review of Brick Mansions (2014)

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

Brick Mansions undermines its best asset -- the athletically impressive parkour sequences -- with overedited footage that would make a Jason…

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Review of Heaven Is for Real (2014)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 16 Apr 2014

Randall Wallace's moving movie version of Todd Burpo's best-selling book does not harbor a left-wing or right-wing political agenda, just an…

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Review of Transcendence (2014)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 16 Apr 2014

Transcendence can't quite decide what it wants to say about individualism and the Internet, or about true love between a woman and a digitally…

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Review of Draft Day (2014)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 09 Apr 2014

A wildly miscast, flaccidly directed, disappointingly dumbed-down drama…

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Review of Oculus (2014)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 09 Apr 2014

Oculus marks an ingeniously inventive horror film hailing from a fine tradition of haunted house tales where mysterious forces play with human…

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Review of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 02 Apr 2014

Plot-wise, Winter Soldier makes for a more muscular movie than most Marvel-inspired mysteries…

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Review of Island of Lemurs: Madagascar (2014)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 02 Apr 2014

I'm thinking a better title for this pedestrian doc might be Born to Be Mild…

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Review of Divergent (2014)

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

Neil Burger, who gave us the strange, kinetic drug thriller Limitless, directs Divergent with near joyless disinterest, only occasionally lifting…

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Review of Muppets Most Wanted (2014)

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

So much of Muppets Most Wanted has been repurposed from earlier Muppet adventures that it undermines what few new, fun songs and comic situations…

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Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 06 Mar 2014

The title 300: Rise of an Empire takes on a whole new meaning when this bombastically stylized ancient Greece live-action cartoon comes to…

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Review of In Fear (2013)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 06 Mar 2014

We never know Lucy and Tom enough to care about their survival…

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Review of The Lunchbox (2013)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 06 Mar 2014

The Lunchbox resonates with bittersweet realism, and the bold recognition that if some things are meant to be, then others are meant to be…

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Review of The Bag Man (2014)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 06 Mar 2014

David Grovic's directorial debut The Bag Man loves these clichés so much, there's hardly room for invention to breathe…

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Review of Odd Thomas (2013)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 28 Feb 2014

Odd Thomas should have been a scary horror movie with comic overtones, or a flat-out comedy with horror overtones…

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Review of Winter's Tale (2014)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 13 Feb 2014

Winter's Tale offers grand overtures of imagination and romance with woozy visual effects that overpower the characters and render its Dan…

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Review of Tim's Vermeer (2013)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 13 Feb 2014

The documentary Tim's Vermeer chronicles one man's obsession…

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Review of The Outsider (2015)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 06 Feb 2014

The imposing Fairbrass makes for a formidable action hero, but he's no match for the inert direction, boilerplate dialogue and razor-thin characters…

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Review of The Monuments Men (2014)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 06 Feb 2014

Strangely, Clooney's movie lacks the tightening tension the story intends to achieve…

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Review of The Lego Movie (2014)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 06 Feb 2014

The Lego Movie entertains us with every blockbuster cliché known to humankind at the same time it ridicules every blockbuster cliché known…

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Review of A Fantastic Fear of Everything (2012)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 06 Feb 2014

Simon Pegg is a very talented comic actor, but you would never guess that in this claustrophobic, strained stream-of-consciousness, sinking…

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