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Review of Operation Christmas Drop (2020)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 10 Nov 2020

This is a film so sweet it might give you a contact sugar rush, but it features two inherently likable, great-looking romantic leads, a fine…

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Review of Hillbilly Elegy (2020)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 10 Nov 2020

Hillbilly Elegy is a beautifully constructed, unforgiving, heart-tugging family epic about three generations of the Vance family…

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Review of The Life Ahead (2020)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 10 Nov 2020

While it is unabashedly sentimental and at times goes over the top with the symbolic melodramatic devices, it is a beautifully shot and heartwarming…

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Review of Echo Boomers (2020)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 10 Nov 2020

This is a nifty little gem in the heist genre, with the familiar message about the perils of greed and always wanting more and more and even more…

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Review of Let Him Go (2020)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 04 Nov 2020

The abrupt tonal shifts may throw some viewers for a loop, but when the confrontations segue from tense verbal exchanges to sudden bursts of…

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Review of Come Play (2020)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 28 Oct 2020

There’s a terrifically entertaining sequence late in the film that plays like an homage to a certain element of the original “Poltergeist,”…

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Review of Holidate (2020)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 28 Oct 2020

An excruciatingly cheesy, hopelessly dated, profoundly unfunny and tone-deaf romantic comedy about an intelligent, hard-working, likable and…

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Review of The Craft: Legacy (2020)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 27 Oct 2020

The Craft: Legacy is a smart, edgy, wickedly funny and wild ride from the talented writer-director Zoe Lister-Jones…

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Review of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2020)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 22 Oct 2020

Sacha Baron Cohen remains a fearless and funny comedic force, and Maria Bakalova is hilarious and endearing as Tutar…

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Review of Synchronic (2020)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 22 Oct 2020

Through the psychedelic journeys and the blood-spattered crime scenes and the brooding atmosphere, Synchronic is at heart a good old-fashioned…

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Review of White Noise (2020)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 22 Oct 2020

Ten minutes into Lombroso’s film, it’s painfully clear these are people with ugliness in their hearts and dangerously racist ideas…

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Review of Bad Hair (2020)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 22 Oct 2020

With a running time of 1 hour 55 minutes, Bad Hair might have benefited from a quick trim (sorry), and it’s a real mess at times, but you…

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Review of Roald Dahl's The Witches (2020)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 21 Oct 2020

The special effects are first-rate and the performances are way over the top yet entertaining, but The Witches is far too disturbing for young…

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Review of A Rainy Day in New York (2019)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 09 Oct 2020

Even a warmed-over, behind-the-times Woody Allen script is going to contain some choice one-liners, and this is a superb cast that knows how…

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Review of Hubie Halloween (2020)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 07 Oct 2020

The argument about whether Sandler is terrible or talented has long been settled. The answer is both…

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Review of Spontaneous (2020)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 07 Oct 2020

It’s funny as hell in a drive-in splatter movie kind of way, smart and insightful and respectful in its depiction of modern-day teens, brimming…

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Review of On the Rocks (2020)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 01 Oct 2020

Jones and Murray are wonderful together; many of the best scenes in On the Rocks are when it’s just the two of them, verbally fencing…

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Review of The Boys in the Band (2020)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 29 Sep 2020

More than a half-century after first taking the stage, “The Boys in the Band” still leaves us with so much to think about, so much to feel,…

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Review of Save Yourselves! (2020)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 27 Sep 2020

Even the smaller touches in Save Yourselves! ring true…

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Review of Ava (2020)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 27 Sep 2020

As the plot grows increasingly convoluted and borderline laughable, Chastain is steady as she goes, playing a character who’s worthy of a…

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