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Review of Still Alice (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 15 Jan 2015

This middlebrow drama presents the heroine's mental deterioration calmly and sensitively, though it feels pretty thin on the whole…

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Review of A Christmas Tale (2008)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 Jan 2015

Characters occasionally address the camera, which helps disentangle the competing story lines of madness, adultery, and betrayal…

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Review of In the Shadow of the Moon (2007)

By Reece Pendleton (27) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 12 Jan 2015

The astronaut interviews are fun and occasionally moving, but the real reason to see this is the remastered archival footage, some of it previously…

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Review of Remote Area Medical (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 12 Jan 2015

The filmmakers inspire deep admiration for the volunteers, but without reducing the patients to mere victims of our broken welfare system…

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Review of Inkheart (2008)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 Jan 2015

The movie begins to seem a little overloaded and gimmicky once characters from children's classics begin turning up (including Toto from The…

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Review of Super Troopers (2001)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 Jan 2015

Though there's a crime to be solved, a romance to go awry, and lots of trooper-police politics to elaborate on, the strangely drawn out pacing…

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Review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Jan 2015

The special effects are better and the dialogue slightly more humorous than in the first movie, but the anti-Arab subtext is repugnant…

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Review of The Omen (2006)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Jan 2015

This new version is an almost scene-for-scene remake, which is good news in the first half and bad news in the torpid second…

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Review of Leviathan (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Jan 2015

As in their previous feature, Elena, Zvyagintsev and cowriter Oleg Negin modulate their social critique with sharp, ironic humor…

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Review of The Way He Looks (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Jan 2015

Brazilian writer-director Daniel Ribeiro displays an assured sense of tone in this debut feature, sustaining an air of fragile beauty but never…

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Review of Pelican Dreams (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Jan 2015

The movie invokes a childlike curiosity with the natural world and communicates sincere admiration for the people who tend to it…

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Review of The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Jan 2015

Director Tom Harper conveys this theme through dark, moldy-looking mise-en-scene and the uniformly sullen performances he elicits from the…

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Review of Predestination (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Jan 2015

Writer-directors Peter and Michael Spierig show affinities for serious literature as well as pulp fiction; interwoven with the loopy SF plotting…

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Review of Predestination (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Jan 2015

Writer-directors Peter and Michael Spierig show affinities for serious literature as well as pulp fiction; interwoven with the loopy SF plotting…

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Review of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 07 Jan 2015

For all the visual ambition, this doesn't add up to anything terribly substantial…

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Review of Inherent Vice (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 07 Jan 2015

More than just an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel, the film engages with the author's literature on the whole, attempting a filmic…

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Review of Into the Woods (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Jan 2015

With the exception of Meryl Streep (as the Witch) and James Corden (as the Baker), the cast is bland, and the bombastic orchestrations tend…

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Review of Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 05 Jan 2015

Edge of Tomorrow is a decent time waster, but if you're the sort of person who watches a movie every day, you should probably look for something…

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Review of The Babadook (2014)

By Drew Hunt (128) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 03 Jan 2015

The Babadook makes a convincing argument for classy, psychological horror cinema even as it fails to meet its own lofty standard…

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Review of Big Eyes (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Jan 2015

Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz are charismatic in the lead roles; occasionally they distract from the movie's overall smugness…

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