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Review of I Love You Phillip Morris (2010)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Dec 2010

Unfortunately, as the opening title might suggest, the filmmakers have punted on the hard cinematic work of making the incredible seem credible;…

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Review of Tangled (2010)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Dec 2010

The tale of Rapunzel gets a cheeky make-over in this gorgeous Disney animation, which combines the studio's traditional hand-drawn look with…

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Review of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Dec 2010

The beguiling creature design--from minotaur to dragon, sea serpent to one-footed dwarf--and 3D effects heighten the illusion of a storybook…

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Review of Tiny Furniture (2010)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Dec 2010

A tolerably warm bath of postcollegiate self-pity, salted with irony and self-mockery…

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Review of How She Move (2008)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Dec 2010

Produced by MTV Films, this step-dancing drama is mired in cliche, but with its dingy ghetto settings and hardened, despondent young characters,…

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Review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Dec 2010

The best portion is an animated story-within-the-story, supervised by Ben Hibon, that recalls Lotte Reiniger's filigreed shadow puppets as…

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Review of Welcome to the Rileys (2010)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 07 Dec 2010

The hero's psychological transference is so blatant that even the characters begin commenting on it after a while, yet this modest three-hander…

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Review of Carlos (2010)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 07 Dec 2010

I haven't seen the shorter version, but I would hate to lose one moment of the gripping 66-minute sequence-really the heart of the movie-in…

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Review of Black Swan (2010)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Dec 2010

The black/white duality isn't terribly interesting, but as in most of Aronofsky's films, an intense horror of the body and its uncontrollability…

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Review of Full Frontal (2002)

By Bill Stamets (145) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 05 Dec 2010

Catherine Keener is wonderfully weird as a vicious vice president of human relations, and Nicky Katt is brilliant as an actor playing Hitler…

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Review of Carlos (2010)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 03 Dec 2010

It manages to deliver a steady stream of action thrills even as it reconsiders the international terrorism of the 1960s and '70s for lessons…

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Review of Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (2010)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Dec 2010

Rivers comes across as a consummate professional but also a genuine person, ruthlessly honest about her life decisions and utterly devoid of…

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Review of Black Swan (2010)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Dec 2010

The black/white duality isn't terribly interesting, but as in most of Aronofsky's films, an intense horror of the body and its uncontrollability…

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Review of Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Dec 2010

The best thing I can say about this limp prequel to the Farrelly brothers' Dumb & Dumber is that it obliged me to check out the original, which…

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Review of Brokeback Mountain (2005)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Dec 2010

This is the kind of tasteful tearjerker that's often overrated and smothered with prizes because it flatters our tolerance and sensitivity…

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Review of The Good Girl (2002)

By Bill Stamets (145) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 30 Nov 2010

This is hardly Flaubert, but it is a fairly beguiling look at moral calculation…

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Review of Bring It On (2000)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 29 Nov 2010

Has an adolescent energy and a tempered sexuality…

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Review of Stop Making Sense (1984)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 28 Nov 2010

It's 88 minutes of solid, inventive music, filmed in a straightforward manner that neither deifies the performers nor encourages an illusory…

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Review of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 27 Nov 2010

It's quite funny at times, and the expert direction is never less than vigorous, though in retrospect it seems to have marked the end of Meyer's…

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Review of Osmosis Jones (2001)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 26 Nov 2010

Cathartically disgusting adventure movie…

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