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Review of Veronica Mars (2014)

By Brianna Wellen (3) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 20 Mar 2014

The uninitiated may not go for the all-too-convenient crime solving, melodramatic love triangle, and playful banter, but cultists will find…

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Review of Love & Air Sex (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 20 Mar 2014

Director Bryan Poyser keeps this moving at a nice clip, and the plotting is more intricate than you might expect…

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Review of The Face of Love (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 20 Mar 2014

The first ten minutes of The Face of Love function as what might be called a statement of purposelessness, announcing exactly how and why the…

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Review of Muppets Most Wanted (2014)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 20 Mar 2014

The verbal wit is fairly weak this time around, though as in the previous film there's an endless succession of three-second star cameos…

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Review of A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 18 Mar 2014

This is mainly the girl's story, though the numerous southern archetypes out of Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers (who's explicitly referenced)…

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Review of Grindhouse (2007)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 18 Mar 2014

I enjoyed the invented trailers the directors fold into the mix, but despite the jokey missing reels, these two full-length features are each…

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Review of Ararat (2002)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 Mar 2014

Expresses with uncommon power the highly relevant issue of public indifference to genocide, which is especially well dramatized by a scene…

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Review of Shelter (2008)

By Albert Williams (13) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 15 Mar 2014

What might have been a routine coming-out story is enriched by Wright's accomplished and honest performance, Markowitz's straightforward dialogue,…

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Review of The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 13 Mar 2014

The opening stretch, when the visitor arrives on earth and blithely dresses down mankind, is great fun…

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Review of The Expedition to the End of the World (2013)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 13 Mar 2014

In practice that means a lot of disconnected musing about the perilous state of the planet and the Darwinian aspect of climate change, the…

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Review of Particle Fever (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 13 Mar 2014

The filmmakers find room for some witty philosophical bull sessions and affectionate portraits of some of the physicists; this is an agreeable…

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Review of Need for Speed (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 13 Mar 2014

Unfortunately there's not much of a sensibility beneath the pleasant surfaces; the movie is easy to enjoy, but just as easy to forget…

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Review of The Comebacks (2007)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 12 Mar 2014

Someone should tell these guys you can't score a touchdown throwing lateral passes…

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Review of Ghost Ship (2002)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 11 Mar 2014

A better name for it would have been the Herschell Gordon Lewis: the godfather of gore himself couldn't have topped this succession of grisly deaths…

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Review of Lady in the Water (2006)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 Mar 2014

It's hard to think of a deadlier shotgun marriage than Jacques Tourneur's poetry of absence and Spielbergian uplift, but Shyamalan has patented…

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Review of Ernest & Celestine (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 07 Mar 2014

The images have a soft, inviting quality that befits the storybook narrative…

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Review of Adult World (2014)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Mar 2014

Roberts is completely over-the-top here, her frantic, unfunny performance serving only to highlight Cusack's caginess and restraint…

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Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Drew Hunt (128) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Mar 2014

The slow-motion battle scenes are technically impressive and occasionally elegant, but there's enough machismo here to choke a thousand NFL…

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Review of Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Mar 2014

This profile of stage and screen veteran Elaine Stritch, shot during her 87th year, isn't a documentary so much as an improvised star vehicle;…

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Review of Run & Jump (2014)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Mar 2014

Writer-director Steph Green develops it so patiently and notes its emotional dislocations so carefully that it never descends into cliche…

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