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Review of Basic Instinct 2 (2006)

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

Like many sequels this is actually a remake, and it suffers from the law of diminishing returns…

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Review of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 05 Jan 2017

Though marred by Spielberg's usual carelessness with narrative points, the film alternates sweetness and sarcasm with enough rhetorical sophistication…

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Review of Jackass Number Two (2006)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 05 Jan 2017

Parts of this are screamingly funny, other parts downright stomach turning, but you have to admire the fact that, for these guys, anything…

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Review of Silence (2017)

By Tal Rosenberg (16) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 05 Jan 2017

The film can be ponderous in its rumination and ambiguity, but few cinematic treatments of Christianity and sanctity have been as generous…

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Review of A Monster Calls (2016)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 05 Jan 2017

Rich in folkloric symbolism, this fantasy from director J.A. Bayona starts promisingly but eventually sinks under a wave of pop psychology…

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Review of Silence (2016)

By Tal Rosenberg (16) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 05 Jan 2017

The film can be ponderous in its rumination and ambiguity, but few cinematic treatments of Christianity and sanctity have been as generous…

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Review of Notes on Blindness (2016)

By Leah Pickett (132) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 05 Jan 2017

English writer and theologian John Hull, who went blind in the early 1980s and kept an audio diary of his experience, is the subject of this…

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Review of Homo Sapiens (2016)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 05 Jan 2017

Geyrhalter piques the imagination with images of decay: towns, malls, theaters, and hospitals, all deserted, unnamed, and overrun by foliage…

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Review of The Bridge (2006)

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

This is a new form of obscenity that might be called suicide porn…

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Review of The Recruit (2003)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 30 Dec 2016

It milks the characters' father-son relationship for drama without making the fairly obvious connection to the agency's paternalistic view…

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Review of Hard Rain (1998)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 28 Dec 2016

A better disaster movie than it is a thriller…

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Review of Chéri (2009)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Dec 2016

The movie reunites Pfeiffer with director Stephen Frears and screenwriter Christopher Hampton, who did Dangerous Liaisons (1988); this costume…

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Review of Rhino Season (2012)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 22 Dec 2016

Burdened with a complex flashback structure and an unemotional core, this multi-decade saga of an imprisoned Iranian poet and his family has…

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Review of Why Him? (2016)

By Leah Pickett (132) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 22 Dec 2016

For this puerile farce, director John Hamburg recycles a tired premise -- a straitlaced father disapproves of his daughter's freewheeling boyfriend…

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Review of Hidden Figures (2016)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 22 Dec 2016

A distaff counterpart to The Right Stuff, this exuberant, inspiring drama tells the fact-based story of three black women who strove for upward…

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Review of Lion (2015)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 22 Dec 2016

Garth Davis uses close-ups sparingly and hits no false notes; cinematographer Greig Fraser creates a child's perspective by setting the camera…

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Review of Fences (2016)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 22 Dec 2016

Wilson's play is such an extraordinary social statement, its bitter patriarch rivaling Willy Loman in the greatness of his smallness…

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Review of Lion (2016)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 22 Dec 2016

Garth Davis uses close-ups sparingly and hits no false notes; cinematographer Greig Fraser creates a child's perspective by setting the camera…

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Review of The Hills Have Eyes (2006)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 21 Dec 2016

Some may condemn this gruesome, heartless exercise, but I prefer to savor the irony: three years after the Francophobia that accompanied Operation…

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Review of Passengers (2016)

By Leah Pickett (132) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 21 Dec 2016

Ostensibly we're supposed to like Pratt and Lawrence together, yet Pratt's character does something so unforgivable to Lawrence's at the outset…

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