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Review of Baywatch (2017)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 24 May 2017

Who'd have thought a flimsy, witless TV series like Baywatch could have spawned this boisterous, cheeky comedy…

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Review of Much Loved (2015)

By Leah Pickett (132) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 24 May 2017

Without being overly political, Ayouch touches on the hypocrisy of gender norms in the Middle East…

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Review of Citizen Jane: Battle for the City (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 24 May 2017

Most good documentaries are powered by conflict, and you couldn't ask for a struggle more elemental or relevant to our time than the one chronicled…

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Review of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 24 May 2017

The behind-the-scenes tragedy gives Gilliam an easy excuse for the dull chaos that engulfs the story, but he might have generated it all on his own…

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Review of Alice in Wonderland (1951)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 May 2017

As usual with Burton, the visuals are much better than the story, and Carroll’s characters are richly realized--especially Tweedledum and…

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Review of Because I Said So (2007)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 20 May 2017

Throughout most of her career Diane Keaton has shown sound instincts, so it's a mystery why she failed to sniff this false, brittle comedy…

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Review of Alien: Covenant (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 17 May 2017

Despite a few remnants of the earlier film's obscure genesis story, most of the action in Covenant plays like an elaboration on the original…

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Review of The Prince of Egypt (1998)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 May 2017

The blend of animation techniques somehow demonstrates mastery modestly, while the special effects are nothing short of magnificent…

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Review of Licence to Kill (1989)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 May 2017

Despite some shaky narrative continuity and muddled motivations, this manages to move pretty briskly, and the action sequences are generally…

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Review of The Lovers (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 May 2017

There's really only one joke here -- the 50-ish spouses are every bit as confused, horny, and insecure as kids themselves -- but the two gifted…

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Review of Snatched (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 May 2017

Schumer gets the best moments in the movie's first half as her character suffers various dating embarrassments; Ike Barinholtz gets them in…

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Review of Chuck (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 May 2017

His fall and redemption are a little too familiar to carry the movie, but there's an odd hall-of-mirrors quality to all this: prone to quoting…

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Review of Tracktown (2017)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 May 2017

None of these developments carry much dramatic weight, yet the film is light and affable, with a few modest laughs and good observational detail…

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Review of The Wall (2017)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 May 2017

This doesn't have much to say about the U.S…

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Review of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 May 2017

After directing a number of British crime comedies, Guy Ritchie applied his rapid-fire wisecracks, gleeful violence, and flashy cutting and…

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Review of Scary Movie 2 (2001)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 May 2017

The movie occasionally makes an unexpectereference -- though with more desperation than wit…

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Review of The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 May 2017

As frequently happens in both Loach films and history, the betrayal of ideals, socialist and otherwise, leaves a harsh aftertaste, which made…

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Review of Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 May 2017

Bier is one of the cinema's most acute observers of intimate relations, her Scandinavian reserve muting the inherent melodrama of her material,…

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Review of Knight and Day (2010)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 May 2017

Cruise and Diaz have worked together before (in Vanilla Sky), but this is their first summer-movie pairing, and their star qualities are so…

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Review of The Room (2003)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 May 2017

This inept 2003 melodrama has become a Rocky Horror-style cult favorite...As someone who's watched more bad movies than you can imagine, I'm…

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