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Review of Detroit (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 25 Jul 2017

Kathryn Bigelow's tough docudrama Detroit begins as a frightening, authentic re-creation of the Motor City's 1967 race riots, then roller-coasters…

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Review of City of Ghosts (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 19 Jul 2017

The story of these daring citizen journalists becomes the stuff of a riveting nonfiction thriller in Matthew Heineman's searing documentary…

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Review of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 19 Jul 2017

In the spare moments between sensory-assaulting action scenes, Valerian and Laureline exchange embarrassingly sophomoric romantic overtures…

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Review of Dunkirk (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 18 Jul 2017

An immersive, bombastic historical epic more interested in how things happen than the people who things actually happen to…

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Review of Wish Upon (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 12 Jul 2017

Clare pleads with her nondescript gal pals Meredith and June for help fighting the box. Throw it away! You'll feel much better! June says…

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Review of Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 05 Jul 2017

Holland plays a 15-year-old Peter Parker with such joyous naiveté and youthful exuberance that his predecessors -- the nerdy Tobey Maguire…

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Review of Despicable Me 3 (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 28 Jun 2017

Sooner or later, it was bound to happen that the Minion movies would run low on smart inventiveness and genuine emotions by substituting quantity…

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Review of The Beguiled (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 28 Jun 2017

[Coppola] ignites a long, long dramatic fuse on this art house project, sumptuously rendered by director of cinematography Philippe Le Sourd…

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Review of Maudie (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 27 Jun 2017

Maudie is directed by Irish filmmaker Aisling Walsh, who allows the complex relationship between Maud and Everett to unfold at a proper pace…

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Review of The Big Sick (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 27 Jun 2017

Despite its pandemic-sounding title, The Big Sick delivers a fresh, funny, endearing and surprisingly emotional story of romance and survival,…

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Review of Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 19 Jun 2017

Even with the low bar set by Michael Bay's previous Transformers movies, The Last Knight stands apart as an incoherent, disjointed work of…

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Review of Beatriz at Dinner (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 15 Jun 2017

Consider Mike White's clever drama the 21st century version of My Dinner With Andre -- with shivs…

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Review of Cars 3 (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 14 Jun 2017

Even with an abundance of full-throttle races (rendered in splendid, detailed animation), Cars 3 doesn't travel all that fast for its 111-minutes,…

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Review of The Recall (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 14 Jun 2017

The Recall is the kind of bad flying saucer movie you almost enjoy as much as a good one, just because it's so unaware of its own cheesy dumbness…

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Review of It Comes at Night (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 07 Jun 2017

It Comes at Night intends to be a cautionary tale about the corrosive, terrible power of fear, but its isolationist bent and thinly disguised…

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Review of Megan Leavey (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 07 Jun 2017

Cowperthwaite brings the heat during the Iraq scenes, merging her journalistic approach with dramatic devices that imbue Megan Leavey with…

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Review of The Mummy (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 06 Jun 2017

This Mummy teems with promising ideas that never fully materialize…

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Review of Wonder Woman (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 30 May 2017

Wonder Woman gives rising star Gal Gadot the chance to…

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Review of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 23 May 2017

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales isn't a terrible sequel, just a disappointing one…

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Review of Everything, Everything (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 18 May 2017

Unencumbered by financial restraints, Maddy and Olly apparently can own any phone, any size Apple computer screen, or new Toyota pickup truck…

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