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Review of Affliction (1998)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 28 Aug 2013

A brave effort to stare down the specter of American failure, it gets off on the wrong foot by pretentiously turning the doomed hero into a…

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Review of Notes on a Scandal (2006)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 26 Aug 2013

The skillful Patrick Marber (Closer) adapted this gripping drama from a novel by Zoe Heller, and it's both literate and urgently plotted, with…

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Review of Floundering (1994)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 25 Aug 2013

This first feature by independent producer Peter McCarthy is fairly lightweight, but the cast and low-rent production credits have a certain charm…

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Review of I Am Legend (2007)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 25 Aug 2013

The popcorn elements are well handled, but what lingers is the sense of urban despair: watching old videotapes of the Today show, carrying…

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Review of The Joneses (2010)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 25 Aug 2013

Writer-director Derrick Borte brings a heavy hand to the comedy and an even heavier one to the drama…

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Review of The Guys (2002)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 25 Aug 2013

Since the virtues of heroism and decency it celebrates are universal, I hope it doesn't get absorbed into the dubious agitprop of American…

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Review of eXistenZ (1999)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 24 Aug 2013

Audaciously combining conviction and childish humor, this SF thriller reminds us that the distinction between the tangible and the intangible…

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Review of Simply Irresistible (1999)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 20 Aug 2013

This culinary fantasy is mildly inspired…

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Review of I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 19 Aug 2013

More than anything Chuck and Larry shows just how flaccid American movie comedy has become now that Saturday Night Live has replaced vaudeville…

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Review of Starsky & Hutch (2004)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 Aug 2013

Stiller and Wilson are still hilarious as the supercool detectives -- there hasn't been a comedy duo this good since John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd…

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Review of Kick-Ass 2 (2013)

By Drew Hunt (128) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 Aug 2013

Sticking to the original's box-office-busting formula of blood, guts, boobs, and bad words, Wadlow sleepwalks through the material, failing…

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Review of Prince Avalanche (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 Aug 2013

David Gordon Green somehow brings together the poetic sensibility of his independent art movies and the humorous lowbrow non sequiturs of his…

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Review of Drug War (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 Aug 2013

Few other working filmmakers display this degree of visual sophistication and old-school craftsmanship…

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Review of Kid-Thing (2012)

By Drew Hunt (128) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 Aug 2013

Zellner handles the material delicately, treating her apparent psychosis like an ill-fated by-product of growing up…

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Review of The Butler (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 Aug 2013

The movie's a mess, but a unique and provocative one…

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Review of Jobs (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 Aug 2013

Two movies seem to be wrestling for control [here]…

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Review of The Canyons (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 Aug 2013

Ellis throws in lots of references to social media in a desperate bid for cultural currency, while Schrader intersperses the drama with pretentious…

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Review of Apt Pupil (1998)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 Aug 2013

Largely free of generic horror-movie elements, such as exploitative torture and murder scenes…

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Review of Unforgiven (1992)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 12 Aug 2013

As a moral reconsideration of the role of violence in previous Eastwood films, this is strong and sure, and characters who play against genre…

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Review of Lovelace (2013)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Aug 2013

This drama from codirectors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman is so respectful of 70s porn sensation Linda Lovelace that instead of humanizing…

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