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Review of Destination Wedding (2018)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 05 Sep 2018

Writer-director Victor Levin takes an interesting although ultimately tedious and distracting approach to nearly every scene…

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Review of Peppermint (2018)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 05 Sep 2018

In the stylishly directed but gratuitously nasty and cliché-riddled Peppermint, Garner plays essentially two characters cut from the same person…

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Review of The Little Stranger (2018)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 30 Aug 2018

At times The Little Stranger is frustratingly vague, and some of the developments don’t add up … Until they do. Quite nicely and quite eerily…

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Review of Minding the Gap (2018)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 29 Aug 2018

The editing is brilliant, as we jump back in forth in time, seeing these three as kids and then as young men, marveling at their skateboard…

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Review of Operation Finale (2018)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 28 Aug 2018

Everything unfolds pretty much as we anticipate, and at times “Operation Finale” IS gripping and involving — but more often, the story…

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Review of The Wife (2017)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 23 Aug 2018

The Wife is visually arresting, but Runge wisely opts for a straightforward approach overall, giving center stage to the dialogue and the actors…

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Review of Juliet, Naked (2018)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 23 Aug 2018

Like Ethan Hawke, Rose Byrne is an actor who can do just about anything when given the opportunity…

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Review of Papillon (2017)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 23 Aug 2018

It is an impressively staged and appropriately rain-soaked, mud-splattered, bone-crunching tale, more violent and filled with rougher language…

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Review of The Happytime Murders (2018)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 22 Aug 2018

Hope began to die about five minutes into this off-putting, cheap-looking, virtually laugh-free disaster. Hope was dead at the 10-minute mark…

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Review of Down a Dark Hall (2018)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 21 Aug 2018

Down a Dark Hall eventually goes Down a Convoluted Tunnel, with some admittedly creepy but also just plain crazy sequences that play like “Eyes…

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Review of Mile 22 (2018)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 21 Aug 2018

Though it crackles with energy and has some impressive albeit gratuitously bloody kill sequences, the Big Picture plot is a dud, up to and…

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Review of Nowhere Boy (2009)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 21 Aug 2018

We learn that the emotional roller coaster of his formative years probably contributed to the complexity of his lyrics…

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Review of The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 16 Aug 2018

The real support group at this place is the one formed by a small band of students, who lean on each other and reinforce each other in the…

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Review of Crazy Rich Asians (2018)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 14 Aug 2018

Crazy Rich Asians glimmers and sparkles, gives us characters to root for, and is pure escapist fantasy fun…

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Review of 28 Days Later (2002)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 14 Aug 2018

A tough, smart, ingenious movie that leads its characters into situations where everything depends on their (and our) understanding of human nature…

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Review of Chi-Town (2018)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 09 Aug 2018

This is a beautifully photographed, thoroughly engrossing, sobering but also inspirational piece of work…

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Review of The Meg (2018)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 08 Aug 2018

A lot is obvious here, in fact, including a couple of twists...You're there for the action, and there's a lot of it…

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Review of BlacKkKlansman (2018)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 08 Aug 2018

BlacKkKlansman is one of Spike Lee’s most accomplished films in recent memory, and one of the best films of 2018…

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Review of Never Goin' Back (2018)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 07 Aug 2018

Kudos to writer-director Frizzell for demonstrating a sharp ear for comedic dialogue, a fine sense of storytelling as a director — and for…

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Review of Out of the Past (1947)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 06 Aug 2018

Out of the Past is one of the greatest of all film noirs, the story of a man who tries to break with his past and his weakness and start over…

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