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Review of Unforgettable (2017)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 03 May 2017

Unforgettable simply fails to deliver in terms of atmosphere and, moreover, the filmmakers fail to develop any sort of subtext from the material…

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Review of My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (2016)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 03 May 2017

The animation set pieces scattered throughout the movie are frequently inspired, pulling in all manner of media and materials, and the backgrounds…

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Review of Sleight (2017)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 03 May 2017

Sleight... is a minor film with major virtues: tenderness, imagination, and a strong grasp of character and setting…

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Review of David Lynch: The Art Life (2017)

By Kurt Jacobsen (1) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 03 May 2017

Lynch's art is filled with frightening images, but there's nothing scarier in his work than a father's wrath, whether it's expressed in rape,…

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Review of God Knows Where I Am (2016)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 03 May 2017

Inventively structured, the documentary alternates between her early adulthood and her final months, her sad demise casting a shadow over the…

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Review of Sleight (2015)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 03 May 2017

Sleight... is a minor film with major virtues: tenderness, imagination, and a strong grasp of character and setting…

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Review of Risk (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 03 May 2017

With the Snowden and Assange films, Poitras is truly reporting from the cusp of history, but such proximity to one's subject can be disorienting…

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Review of Chasing Trane (2017)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 03 May 2017

This documentary about John Coltrane provides a fine overview of his career for the uninitiated and plenty of lesser-known information for fans…

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Review of The Dinner (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 03 May 2017

The premise for this chamber drama is inherently suspenseful, but not enough to sustain a movie so languorous that its chapters are demarcated…

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Review of Run Lola Run (1998)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 May 2017

About as entertaining as a no-brainer can be--a lot more fun, for my money, than a cornball theme-park ride like Speed, and every bit as fast…

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Review of Blades of Glory (2007)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 29 Apr 2017

Ben Stiller produced, and the movie is so reminiscent of Zoolander that I wish he had rounded up Owen Wilson and starred in it himself…

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Review of Unforgettable (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 26 Apr 2017

Heigl works overtime to humanize the resentful mom-her face is like an old-fashioned cash register with the prices popping up-but she's more…

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Review of The Illinois Parables (2016)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 26 Apr 2017

This accomplished essay film may focus on our state, but Stratman's real concern is state power in the larger sense...Connecting all this are…

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Review of Walking Tall (2004)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 25 Apr 2017

Lacks the raw power of the original but offers its own brand of exploitative fun…

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Review of The Parallax View (1974)

By Don Druker (117) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 24 Apr 2017

As with Pakula's earlier suspenser, Klute, the eerie ambience of menace is coolly and smoothly handled, but for my taste the suspenseful set…

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Review of The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

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

Shot at the same time as The Matrix Reloaded, this last installment is the shortest of the bunch at 129 minutes, but I still succumbed to special-effects…

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Review of The Replacement Killers (1998)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 22 Apr 2017

Despite the practical nature of the costars' bond, I spent most of the lukewarm actioner wondering when the hell they were going to start kissing…

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Review of Beverly Hills Ninja (1997)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 21 Apr 2017

It makes me sick all over again just describing this--the most affecting scene in a sluggish would-be comedy that reflects the dubious state…

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Review of Buried (2010)

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

As a cautionary tale about the perils of nation building, this is both creepy and provocative, but director Rodrigo Cortés blows it in the…

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Review of The Lost City of Z (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 19 Apr 2017

Writer-director James Gray stages all this with an impressive sense of narrative scale…

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