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Review of Kurt & Courtney (1998)

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

This patchwork portrait is hard to look away from, partly because it exposes how one man rationalizes the dirty job of being a documentary filmmaker…

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Review of The Big Bounce (2004)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 11 Jan 2013

Armitage adds a slick veneer of one-liners and slapstick to Leonard's novel, but the story has been so spun around that it barely knows how to end…

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Review of The Woodsman (2004)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 Jan 2013

Bacon conveys the weight of his character's anguished struggles through his economy of movement, and the powerful, spare script is refreshingly…

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Review of Gangster Squad (2013)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 Jan 2013

Apart from the gore -- and there's plenty -- this is basically L.A. Confidential without the script…

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Review of Amour (2012)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 Jan 2013

[Haneke] has put his finger on a very particular kind of heartbreak: seeing a lover give up not on you but on the life you've shared…

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Review of The Messenger (2009)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Jan 2013

Whenever writer-director Oren Moverman moves past these scattered and admittedly voyeuristic moments into the lives of the two soldiers, the…

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Review of The Invisible War (2012)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 07 Jan 2013

This travesty has been encouraged by a military culture that blames the victim and a policy directing soldiers to refer complaints to their…

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Review of Chronicle (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 07 Jan 2013

As pulp sci-fi this Fox release is pretty good, but it's also commendable for its sensitive depiction of adolescent behavior: even the bullying…

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Review of The Town (2010)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Jan 2013

This second feature doesn't resonate with nearly as much power, but its suspenseful story of two generations of career criminals in the city's…

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Review of The Business of Strangers (2001)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 04 Jan 2013

The film raises many interesting questions about our own responses, but it may finally be too open-ended for its own good…

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Review of Last Stop for Paul (2008)

By Joshua Katzman (52) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 03 Jan 2013

This engaging, mostly improvised no-budget feature is based in part on Mandt's experiences, its loose narrative structure developing by chance…

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Review of Parental Guidance (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 03 Jan 2013

This grating family comedy resembles a sitcom in its flat lighting, patronizing music cues, and frames supplying little visual information…

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Review of Rust and Bone (2012)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 03 Jan 2013

The masterful writer-director Jacques Audiard draws vivid performances from Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts for this gripping French…

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Review of Promised Land (2012)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 03 Jan 2013

A love triangle involving the two men and a local schoolteacher (Rosemarie DeWitt) seems more like a commercial necessity than an integral…

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Review of Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 03 Jan 2013

At the very least Bigelow has widened her reach past the white-knuckle thrills of The Hurt Locker and into the darkest currents of American…

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Review of Life Stinks (1991)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Jan 2013

The movie takes a while to hit its stride, and its conclusion is fairly slapdash, but somewhere in between are some of the funniest bits of…

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Review of Just Friends (2005)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 31 Dec 2012

Chris Klein steals the film as a rival ex-nerd, now the most gorgeous guy in town, while director Roger Kumble (Cruel Intentions) cribs from…

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Review of Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Dec 2012

Doesn't do much with its pseudosavvy characters…

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Review of Passion of Mind (2000)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 21 Dec 2012

Slick and effective escapism with a touch of poetry (a la The Sixth Sense) that left me vaguely dissatisfied once the mystery was supposedly resolved…

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Review of Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 21 Dec 2012

This big-screen vehicle for the popular performance troupe would be more bearable if the exhibitors passed out earplugs along with the 3-D glasses…

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