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Review of In Darkness (2011)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 17 Feb 2012

Robert Wieckiewicz is good as the conflicted protagonist, but the most valuable player here is cinematographer Jolanta Dylewska, who turns…

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Review of Ballast (2008)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 Feb 2012

Hammer overplays his indie hand with an abrupt and unsatisfactory ending, but his three leads are so credible that their aching, tongue-tied…

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Review of This Means War (2012)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 Feb 2012

Pine, who expertly approximated William Shatner in the Star Trek reboot, seems to have picked up some of the actor's air of self-serious buffoonery,…

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Review of This Means War (2012)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 Feb 2012

Pine, who expertly approximated William Shatner in the Star Trek reboot, seems to have picked up some of the actor's air of self-serious buffoonery,…

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Review of Predators (2010)

By Cliff Doerksen (83) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 Feb 2012

The dialogue is dumber than dirt, and the plot crumbles at the halfway mark, but the movie does what a loud summer blockbuster should, which…

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Review of Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 Feb 2012

The gods, led by Sean Bean, are mostly stiffs; thank heaven for Uma Thurman, raising hell as a stylishly leather-clad Medusa…

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Review of Sideways (2009)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 13 Feb 2012

Payne's entertaining but familiar comedy lacks the insolence of his Election and the freshness of his work with Kathy Bates in About Schmidt…

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Review of Star Trek (2009)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 Feb 2012

A relatively mindless thrill ride that would have made the old NBC execs grin from ear to ear…

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Review of The Thin Man (1934)

By Don Druker (117) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 Feb 2012

One of the most popular comedies ever made…

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Review of Captain Blood (1935)

By Don Druker (117) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 Feb 2012

Michael Curtiz, the most polished of Warner's studio technicians, starts Flynn off royally…

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Review of I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

By Don Druker (117) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 Feb 2012

Based on a true story, its style is simple, direct, forceful -- even after more than six decades…

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Review of Safe House (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Feb 2012

Espinosa never conveys any sort of perspective on the material, as Scott does through his obsessive attention to production detail; the stylization…

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Review of House of Pleasures (2011)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Feb 2012

Like Walter Benjamin, Bonello associates this insularity with both innocence and the 19th century; and when, in the final sequence of House…

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Review of The Vow (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Feb 2012

Most of the time it plays like the movie adaptation of a Land's End catalogue, making monogamy seem essential by associating it with high-end…

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Review of Safe House (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Feb 2012

Espinosa never conveys any sort of perspective on the material, as Scott does through his obsessive attention to production detail; the stylization…

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Review of Addiction Incorporated (2011)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Feb 2012

The interviewees are good storytellers--particularly the eccentric research scientists who tested the effects of nicotine on rats in the early…

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Review of Splinters (2012)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Feb 2012

This has some currency as ethnography, showing how tribal and interpersonal matters mesh with sports mania, but it remains a formidably dull…

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Review of Woo (1998)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Feb 2012

This Manhattan-based romantic comedy might be fun if it didn't hit you over the head with a sledgehammer every few minutes…

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Review of Alex & Emma (2003)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Feb 2012

The actors make this fun if you can overlook the ludicrous view of Jeremy Leven's screenplay…

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Review of The Closer You Get (2000)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Feb 2012

An open-mindedness in the plotting of this romantic comedy set on Ireland's Donegal coast adds a couple of mild surprises to the story…

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