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Review of Alien: Covenant (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 16 May 2017

Nobody comes to see Alien: Covenant for surprises of the pleasant sort…

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Review of The Wall (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 10 May 2017

The abrupt introduction of this chatty theatrical artifice disrupts the drama's gritty realism…

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Review of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 10 May 2017

It's as if Ritchie sensed the ponderous weight of his story and dumped in every visual gimmick from his directorial kitchen sink…

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Review of Snatched (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 09 May 2017

Schumer continues to be an audacious, fearless and un-embarrassable comic lightning rod for intimate female sincerity…

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Review of David Lynch: The Art Life (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 04 May 2017

By the close of Nguyen's doc we have witnessed the arduous process [of] an American visionary…

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Review of The Dinner (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 03 May 2017

Strong, focused performances give The Dinner sufficient reason to be seen…

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Review of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 02 May 2017

Frenetic and frequently funny, Vol. 2 moves so mercifully fast that we hardly notice the narrative potholes…

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Review of The Devil's Candy (2016)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 26 Apr 2017

The Devil's Candy settles for a standard-issue hellfire finale, one that obliterates what tattered credibility remains in Byrne's story…

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Review of The Promise (2017)

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

The Promise falls so much in love with its own epic grandness that its dramatic heart gets lost among sweeping vistas and endless parades of…

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Review of The Lost City of Z (2017)

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

Christopher Spelman's orchestral score spikes the narrative with classical flourishes as Gray whisks us into an Indiana Jones adventure so…

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Review of Killing for Love (2016)

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

The Promise falls so much in love with its own epic grandness that its dramatic heart gets lost among sweeping vistas and endless parades of…

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Review of Free Fire (2017)

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

If Sam Peckinpah remade The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, you'd get something like Ben Wheatley's ode to the cinema of comic cruelty Free Fire…

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Review of The Promise (2017)

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

The Promise falls so much in love with its own epic grandness that its dramatic heart gets lost among sweeping vistas and endless parades of…

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Review of The Promise (2016)

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

The Promise falls so much in love with its own epic grandness that its dramatic heart gets lost among sweeping vistas and endless parades of…

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Review of Tommy's Honour (2017)

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

The ending involving an interview with an 84-year-old Tom Morris should be a two-fisted Kleenex moment. It settles for barely a fist…

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Review of The Fate of the Furious (2017)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 11 Apr 2017

At 136 minutes, The Fate of the Furious suffers from a more is more approach that effectively dilutes the power of the movie had it been trimmed…

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Review of Going in Style (2017)

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

Caine, Freeman and Arkin share a comfortable camaraderie as three old pals who know each other so well, they can forgive each other for cranky…

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Review of The Ticket (2016)

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

Beauty and the Beast star Dan Stevens (he plays the Beast) supplies Ido Fluk's problematic, but courageously experimental morality play The…

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Review of Wilson (2017)

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

Harrelson, who elevated sarcasm to a humanistic art form as the put-upon high school teacher in last year's The Edge of Seventeen, buries his…

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Review of Wilson (2017)

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

Harrelson, who elevated sarcasm to a humanistic art form as the put-upon high school teacher in last year's The Edge of Seventeen, buries his…

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