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Review of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 31 May 2023

The action sequences are dazzling and innovative, but at least two major set pieces run far too long, to the point where we’re equal parts…

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Review of Sanctuary (2023)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 31 May 2023

Although Sanctuary is stylish and initially intriguing, it’s eventually a real chore to spend an entire feature-length film (even with a…

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Review of The Boogeyman (2023)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 30 May 2023

Infused with a stylish and shadowy style courtesy of director Rob Savage (“Host,” “Dashcam”), with a sharp screenplay by Scott Beck,…

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Review of You Hurt My Feelings (2023)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 24 May 2023

If you’re looking for a smart, insightful, slightly cynical yet warmhearted and consistently smile-inducing slice of life reminiscent of…

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Review of White Men Can't Jump (2023)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 18 May 2023

White Men Can’t Jump 2023 is the second remake for director Calmatic this year, following the disastrous “House Party” from last January,…

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Review of Fast X (2023)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 17 May 2023

Everyone slips comfortably into their roles and does what they can with the goofy dialogue and the death-defying, logic-defeating stunt sequences…

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Review of Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me (2023)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 16 May 2023

Like so many cautionary tales we’ve seen come out of Hollywood since there was a Hollywood, “You Don’t Know Me” is one long reminder…

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Review of The Mother (2023)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 12 May 2023

I’m not going to spoil the epilogue in the slick but trashy and quite dumb Jennifer Lopez action movie The Mother, but I will say it’s…

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Review of Hypnotic (2023)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 12 May 2023

Hypnotic is an uneven, at times mesmerizing and dazzling mind-bender of a psychological thriller that plays like a drive-in movie version of…

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Review of BlackBerry (2023)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 10 May 2023

Thanks to the clever, docudrama style direction by Matt Johnson, a crackling good screenplay by Johnson and Matthew Miller and searingly good…

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Review of STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2023)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 10 May 2023

The documentary is at its best when we observe Fox in quiet, warm and funny moments with his wife and their four children, and when it’s…

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Review of Love Again (2023)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 05 May 2023

I’m not going to say the ridiculous and off-putting romantic text-message dramedy “Love Again” is the worst movie of the year, but it…

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Review of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 02 May 2023

Though a bit bloated and overstuffed with explosion-laden, standard-issue action sequences we’ve seen in dozens of superhero movies, Guardians…

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Review of Peter Pan & Wendy (2023)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 28 Apr 2023

The versatile and talented director David Lowery (“A Ghost Story,” “The Old Man & the Gun,” “The Green Knight”) and the requisite…

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Review of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 26 Apr 2023

While it took all these decades for “Are You There, God…

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Review of Ghosted (2023)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 21 Apr 2023

Alas, you can spend nearly two hours watching the slick, cynical, vapid and brain-numbing actioner “Ghosted” on Apple TV+ and find yourself…

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Review of Evil Dead Rise (2023)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 21 Apr 2023

In the hands of writer-director Lee Cronin, a brilliant makeup and practical effects squad and a terrific cast that really sinks its teeth…

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Review of Beau Is Afraid (2023)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 19 Apr 2023

On the heels of his brilliant one-two punch of “Hereditary” and “Midsommar,” writer-director Aster stumbles badly in an impressively…

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Review of Somewhere in Queens (2023)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 18 Apr 2023

Beyond the often hilarious dialogue and some slapstick humor, when Somewhere in Queens gets into serious territory, including Leo possibly…

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Review of Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 18 Apr 2023

It’s almost as if Ritchie wants to make sure we know he directed this, because it doesn’t seem like “a Guy Ritchie film.” Duly noted,…

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