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Review of Vampires (1998)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 Jul 2014

With a distinctively middle-aged zest, Carpenter retools even the hopeless cliche requiring action heroes to spout bad puns while dispatching…

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Review of Love Liza (2002)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 15 Jul 2014

I've heard it said that Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of the most talented character actors currently working, can't carry a film himself, and…

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Review of Let It Be (1970)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 15 Jul 2014

Sanitized it may well be, but agonizing nonetheless—it's a domestic squabble that somehow touches history…

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Review of Fathers' Day (1997)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 13 Jul 2014

The mechanical possibilities are worked out with precision and relish, but [the director] is careful not to allow the comedy to linger too…

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Review of Father's Day (2009)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 13 Jul 2014

Ivan Reitman directs Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel's adaptation like standard-issue sitcom, inviting Williams to pursue his usual overacting shtick…

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Review of Father's Day (2003)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 13 Jul 2014

Ivan Reitman directs Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel's adaptation like standard-issue sitcom, inviting Williams to pursue his usual overacting shtick…

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Review of The Lion in Winter (1968)

By Don Druker (117) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 13 Jul 2014

James Goldman's screenplay, so chic and sophisticated to the ears of suburbanites, is chock-full of the worst kind of sophomoric fiddling with…

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Review of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 13 Jul 2014

A 157-minute holding pattern in which neither of the ongoing stories--Harry's conflict with the evil sorcerer Voldemort, the young schoolmates…

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Review of Hate Crime (2005)

By Albert Williams (13) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 13 Jul 2014

This melodrama by writer-director Tommy Stovall has a good premise, but he undercuts it with contrived plot twists, pedestrian pacing, and…

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Review of Saved! (2004)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 13 Jul 2014

It's been a long time since I've seen a teen movie as lively, as unpredictable, as generous, and as tough-minded as this one…

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Review of Jakob the Liar (1999)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 11 Jul 2014

Pales in comparison to the controversial Life Is Beautiful--a more provocative fiction, if only because it's even less realist…

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Review of Jackass 3D (2010)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 Jul 2014

At their best, the Jackasses combine low-brow humor with delectable absurdity (one of my favorite gags from Jackass: The Movie had a guy creeping…

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Review of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Jul 2014

The human characters (played by Gary Oldman, Jason Clarke, and Keri Russell, among others) are so bland they don't stand a chance against their…

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Review of Earth to Echo (2014)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Jul 2014

If the movie is a waste, at least it's an instructive one, signaling just how offensive children's entertainment might become in the YouTube era…

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Review of Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg (2009)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Jul 2014

It is only in the sequence about Berg's popular costar Philip Loeb that Aviva Kempner's documentary resonates…

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Review of The Last Exorcism (2010)

By Noah Berlatsky (34) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 07 Jul 2014

Patrick Fabian is charming as Marcus, and director Daniel Stamm delivers a series of surefooted scares as the staged possession turns real…

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Review of Nothing Bad Can Happen (2013)

By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Jul 2014

Gebbe elicits strong performances from her actors and succeeds in inspiring a certain sick fascination with the material, yet the film's oppressive…

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Review of Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (2013)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Jul 2014

[Filmmaker Nicholas D…

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Review of Elena (2013)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Jul 2014

The movie becomes a defiant reversal of that sentiment, an act of creation in the face of death…

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Review of Labor Day (2009)

By Patrick Friel (2) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Jul 2014

There are fascinating moments... but these are overshadowed by an endless stream of sound bites and pep talks to volunteers…

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