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Review of Homefront (2013)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 26 Nov 2013

Too bad Franco's performance gets buried under an avalanche of clichés and blurry fight scenes so poorly edited that we can't actually tell…

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Review of Frozen (2013)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 26 Nov 2013

Frozen may not rank as a great Walt Disney animated classic, but it still packs breathtaking scenes, welcome moments of visual and verbal hilarity,…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 21 Nov 2013

If there's any doubt that Catching Fire belongs to Jennifer Lawrence, now in full command of this wonderfully wrought, reluctant Amazonian…

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Review of Nebraska (2013)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 21 Nov 2013

Alexander Payne's excellent drama offers its own brand of quirky joys, including a transparently earnest performance by Chicago native Bruce Dern…

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Review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 20 Nov 2013

Maybe Harry Potter could cast a magic spell over us before we see his new movie…

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Review of The Book Thief (2013)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 14 Nov 2013

A series of small bad decisions hampers this handsome adaptation of Markus Zusak's World War II-set novel, starting with the subtitles…

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Review of The Best Man Holiday (2013)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 14 Nov 2013

Lee moves The Best Man Holiday along on greased wheels…

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Review of How I Live Now (2013)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 07 Nov 2013

Eddie's touch of supernatural ability ultimately proves pointless, leaving Ronan's highly watchable, empathetic performance to carry us through…

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Review of Great Expectations (2012)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 07 Nov 2013

[Helena Bonham Carter gives] a wonderful rendering of Miss Havisham, equal parts melancholy, good-hearted and downright creepy…

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Review of Thor: The Dark World (2013)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 07 Nov 2013

What's missing from The Dark World is a real sense of danger or suspense and genuine connections between the characters…

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Review of Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 07 Nov 2013

This movie, like McConaughey's performance, rejects the sentimentality and prefab heroics that usually afflict such standard Hollywood fare…

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Review of About Time (2013)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 31 Oct 2013

About Time is not about time at all. It's about what we choose to do with it that makes the difference…

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Review of Ender's Game (2013)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 31 Oct 2013

This movie, an old-fashioned morality play masquerading as a kinetic video-game in space, understands some basic truths about youngsters…

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Review of Last Vegas (2013)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 31 Oct 2013

Luminous, funny, self-deprecating and appealingly self-confident, Steenburgen patently purloins the movie from her co-stars…

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Review of About Time (2013)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 31 Oct 2013

About Time is not about time at all. It's about what we choose to do with it that makes the difference…

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Review of Escape from Tomorrow (2013)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 23 Oct 2013

Chasing Jim down all those meandering, dead-end rabbit holes sure is a lot of escapist fun…

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Review of Lost for Words (2013)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 23 Oct 2013

[Faris'] relationship with co-star Huang, while cordial, hardly reflects an emotional connection strong enough for him to conquer his character's…

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Review of All Is Lost (2013)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 23 Oct 2013

All is Lost does not move at a brisk clip, or a tedious drag…

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Review of Paradise (2013)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 16 Oct 2013

Paradise, like Juno, isn't big on reflecting reality…

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Review of Carrie (2013)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 16 Oct 2013

Peirce gives us a respectable Carrie remake, but it lacks the power and excessive stylistic trimmings of the 1976 original that put DePalma…

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