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Review of Table 19 (2017)

By Leah Pickett (132) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Mar 2017

The film has a clever premise that probably would have worked as a half-hour TV episode but fails to sustain a feature-length comedy…

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Review of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Mar 2017

This typically bloated production from Jerry Bruckheimer is good swashbuckling fun for the first few reels but eventually slows to a halt under…

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Review of Live Free or Die Hard (2007)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 07 Mar 2017

The physical stunts by Maggie Q as a lethal martial arts expert and Cyril Raffaelli as a Eurotrash sniper who rappels buildings are more thrilling…

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Review of Message in a Bottle (1999)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 05 Mar 2017

It may not be “The Bridges of Madison County,” but the latest Kevin Costner romance is nearly as good as they get…

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Review of Leave It to Beaver (1997)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 04 Mar 2017

Dead-on imitations of some of the characters from the television series created by Bob Mosher and Joe Connelly will seem pointlessly stylized…

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Review of The Sense of an Ending (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Mar 2017

The melodrama alone conveys the writer's conviction that even in old age one's understanding of life can be swept away in an instant…

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Review of Personal Shopper (2016)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Mar 2017

What gives the story its spooky resonance, however, is a confluence between the unmoored exploration of the protagonist's spiritualism and…

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Review of Logan (2017)

By Leah Pickett (132) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Mar 2017

Director James Mangold, returning after the second installment, The Wolverine, orchestrates several jaw-dropping action sequences, heightened…

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Review of Before I Fall (2017)

By Leah Pickett (132) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Mar 2017

The main characters are high school bullies, but director Ry-Russo Young refuses to stereotype them; they can be sweet and endearing one moment,…

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Review of Get Out (2017)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Mar 2017

Jordan Peele makes his directing debut with a horror movie that sticks closely to genre convention even as its ribbing of white liberals hardens…

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Review of The Fall of Fujimori (2006)

By Joshua Katzman (52) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Mar 2017

To her credit, Perry isn't taken in by Fujimori's attempts to distance himself from the controversies that plagued his presidency…

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Review of Lola (1961)

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

Jacques Demy's first and in some ways best feature, shot in exquisite black-and-white 'Scope by Raoul Coutard, is among the most neglected…

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Review of Apprentice (2016)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 27 Feb 2017

Benoit Soler's fluid, revolving camera frequently visualizes what the main character can't verbalize, and writer-director Boo Junfeng treats…

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Review of Hulk (2003)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 25 Feb 2017

The real star is the splendid computer-generated Hulk, though his King Kong-like story is compromised by the need to keep him around for the…

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Review of The Great Wall (2016)

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

Its epic imagery - the rows of soldiers, the rain of spears, the surging forces - is undercut by the Saturday-matinee cheesiness of the concept…

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Review of Shattered Glass (2003)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 22 Feb 2017

Given recent similar incidents of young con artists posing as journalists, this is a timely and compelling film, but I wish the filmmakers…

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Review of Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 21 Feb 2017

Mixing horror and comedy while minimizing the gore, writer-director Paul Weitz (About a Boy) serves up a witty adventure fantasy with a tasty…

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Review of Once Were Warriors (1994)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 21 Feb 2017

A gritty, powerful first feature by Lee Tamahori…

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Review of Milk (2008)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 19 Feb 2017

Milk is steeped in the street-level details of acquiring and applying power, and a few early episodes show how clearly Milk understood the…

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Review of I Spit on Your Grave (2010)

By Noah Berlatsky (34) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 18 Feb 2017

What it doesn't have is the first movie's primal understanding of patriarchal violence and feminist rage, as both moral horror and exploitation…

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