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Review of The Cinema Travellers (2016)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 30 Mar 2017

A subtle sense of mortality enters in the final third, when several of the men decide to replace one of their 35-millimeter machines with a…

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Review of Obit (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 30 Mar 2017

Gould secures plenty of nuts-and-bolts detail about the reporting and writing process, which can range from novelistic use of detail to the…

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Review of The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 29 Mar 2017

Once the Nazis roll in and shoot all the critters, the movie begins to feel like a budget version of Schindler's List and drifts away into…

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Review of Brothers (2009)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 28 Mar 2017

Bier's film succeeded on the merits of its actors, and this one offers fine performances by Portman and Gyllenhaal, but Maguire doesn't cut…

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Review of A Scanner Darkly (2006)

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

The casting of Reeves in the lead role is inspired: who better than the star of The Matrix and its sequels, a trilogy that borrows heavily…

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Review of Novocaine (2001)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 25 Mar 2017

There's a mechanical desire to work in as many outlandish twists as possible, and shallow grotesquerie quickly takes over…

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Review of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

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

This revisionist western by writer-director Andrew Dominik makes a wan attempt to present the Jesse James legend as the dawn of celebrity culture…

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Review of Song to Song (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Mar 2017

This is the one with Ryan Gosling, and like Terrence Malick's two previous dramas it's a gauzy, improvised affair that looks like a photo essay…

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Review of T2 Trainspotting (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Mar 2017

Bad sequels try to re-create the original movie; good ones explore its narrative consequences. That's certainly the case with T2…

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Review of Wilson (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Mar 2017

Craig Johnson, coming to this project from his indie success The Skeleton Twins, can't find the heart in this fractured, disappointed family…

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Review of Raw (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Mar 2017

This gruesome French horror flick (2016) functions more as a mystery than as an action film, with an endless drip drip drip of revelation that…

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Review of Wilson (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Mar 2017

Craig Johnson, coming to this project from his indie success The Skeleton Twins, can't find the heart in this fractured, disappointed family…

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Review of The Last Mimzy (2007)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 21 Mar 2017

For a family picture this is still superior…

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Review of Next (2007)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 21 Mar 2017

When the story finally collapses in a heap at the end, you'll probably want your money back, but that's where the title comes in: Next…

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Review of Uncertain (2015)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 Mar 2017

The most interesting of them by far is Wayne…

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Review of Ethel & Ernest (2016)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 Mar 2017

At times the movie threatens to melt into a pool of bulldog nostalgia, but it's rescued by a wealth of authentic social detail, especially…

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Review of The Fast and the Furious (2001)

By Reece Pendleton (27) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 13 Mar 2017

While few of the paper-thin characters register long enough to make much of an impression, Diesel carries the movie…

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Review of The Last Word (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Mar 2017

Director Mark Pellington and first-time screenwriter Stuart Ross Fink lack Weitz's sense of taboo-busting mischief, opting instead for the…

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Review of Kong: Skull Island (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Mar 2017

For no reason I can fathom, except perhaps the classic-rock tunes desired for the soundtrack-the story takes place in 1973, when the Vietnam…

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Review of Fist Fight (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Mar 2017

Screenwriters Van Robichaux, Evan Susser, and Max Greenfield raise the satirical ante with a nicely jaundiced view of the school, which is…

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