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Review of Charlie Wilson's War (2007)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 30 Dec 2012

You might think Tom Hanks is miscast as the lovable sinner. Dennis Quaid, maybe, or Woody Harrelson. But Hanks brings something unique to the role…

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Review of Mighty Aphrodite (1995)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 27 Dec 2012

The movie reveals its serious undertones (with commentary by the Greek chorus, which occasionally breaks into song and dance) while at the…

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Review of Shrek the Third (2007)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 26 Dec 2012

A damped-down return to the Kingdom of Far Far Away, lacking the comic energy of the first brilliant film and not measuring up to the second…

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Review of Igby Goes Down (2002)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 21 Dec 2012

An inspired example of the story in which the adolescent hero discovers that the world sucks, people are phonies, and sex is a consolation…

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Review of Malibu's Most Wanted (2003)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 17 Dec 2012

Flashes of inspiration illuminate stretches of routine sitcom material; it's the kind of movie where the audience laughs loudly and then falls…

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Review of Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 13 Dec 2012

This isn't a serious historical film. It plays different instruments than Spielberg's Lincoln…

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Review of Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 12 Dec 2012

Is there another great modern writer so hard to translate successfully into cinema? Saul Bellow? Again, it's all in the language…

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Review of Below (2002)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 10 Dec 2012

A movie where the story, like the sub, sometimes seems to be running blind…

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Review of The Constant Gardener (2005)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 08 Dec 2012

Like City of God, it feels organically rooted. Like many Le Carre stories, it begins with grief and proceeds with sadness toward horror…

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Review of The Last Days (1998)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 07 Dec 2012

In Spielberg's Schindler's List there are the famous shots of the little girl in the red coat (in a film otherwise shot in black and white)…

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Review of Playing for Keeps (2012)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 06 Dec 2012

Jessica Biel all but steals the show as Stacie…

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Review of Citadel (2012)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 06 Dec 2012

This is a basic story, simply and directly told by Irish writer-director Ciaran Foy…

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Review of Citadel (2012)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 06 Dec 2012

This is a basic story, simply and directly told by Irish writer-director Ciaran Foy…

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Review of The Central Park Five (2012)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 06 Dec 2012

The case transfixed a racially polarized New York City. The teens were labeled as a wolf pack by the news media, led by the New York tabloids…

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Review of Starlet (2012)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 06 Dec 2012

The film itself deserves praise for its portraits of these two women and the different worlds they inhabit…

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Review of The Running Man (1987)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 05 Dec 2012

The one element in the movie that is not standard and that does have some energy is the TV show itself, with Dawson's performance as the egotistical,…

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Review of Over Her Dead Body (2008)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 05 Dec 2012

Consider for a moment how this movie might play if it took itself seriously. Would it be better than as a comedy? I suspect so…

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Review of The Muppet Movie (1979)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 05 Dec 2012

After that first second we quit wondering: This is magic, after all, so who wants to know where Henson is…

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Review of Godsend (2004)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 05 Dec 2012

It's a thriller, a bad thriller, completely lacking in psychological or emotional truth…

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Review of House of D (2004)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 03 Dec 2012

House of D is the kind of movie that particularly makes me cringe, because it has such a shameless desire to please; like Uriah Heep, it bows…

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