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Review of House Party (2023)

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

One of the unique things about the original “House Party” from 1990 is while there was an abundance of energetic and exhilarating dancing,…

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Review of On Sacred Ground (2023)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 11 Jan 2023

The movie they made is the movie they made, and while there are some genuinely moving moments, and filmmakers Josh Tickell and Rebecca Tickell…

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Review of M3GAN (2022)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 06 Jan 2023

For all its cleverness and pop-culture savvy and meta references, M3GAN also indulges in tropes we’ve seen in a hundred slasher movies, but…

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Review of The Old Way (2023)

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

This is a revenge Western we’ve seen dozens of times before, and the villains aren’t nearly as intimidating and pitch-black evil as they…

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Review of A Man Called Otto (2022)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 04 Jan 2023

A small and warmhearted gem starring one of our finest veteran actors in a well-crafted and emotionally involving remake of a film about a…

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Review of The Pale Blue Eye (2022)

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

Even when writer-director Cooper’s adaptation of Louis Bayard’s acclaimed novel takes some insanely big dramatic swings and doesn’t always…

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Review of Women Talking (2022)

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

Though the subject matter is intense and shocking, the intuitively sensitive and subtle Polley teams with a brilliant ensemble cast to tell…

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Review of Babylon (2022)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 21 Dec 2022

Despite some admittedly impressive production design and the star-power presence of Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, Babylon comes across as a…

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Review of Babylon (2022)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 21 Dec 2022

Despite some admittedly impressive production design and the star-power presence of Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, Babylon comes across as a…

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Review of Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 21 Dec 2022

Houston basically gets the “Bohemian Rhapsody” treatment in that the film glosses over some of the darkest moments in her life…

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Review of The Whale (2022)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 19 Dec 2022

Fraser becomes Charlie and infuses him with intelligence, pathos, humor and heart…

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Review of Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 13 Dec 2022

Pandora remains one of the most amazing worlds we’ve ever seen on the big screen…

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Review of Empire of Light (2022)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 08 Dec 2022

For all its obvious love of movies and of the shared experience of watching movies, Empire of Light is a decidedly downbeat effort that tries…

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Review of The Mean One (2022)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 08 Dec 2022

The Mean One has a handful of inspired lines, e.g., “Time to roast this beast…

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Review of 2nd Chance (2022)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 07 Dec 2022

There’s something irresistible about the story of the former pizza guy who invented the modern concealable bulletproof vest, and Richard…

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Review of Spoiler Alert (2022)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 07 Dec 2022

Director Showalter (who mined similar territory in “The Big Sick,” one of the best movies of 2017) and screenwriters David Marshall Grant…

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Review of White Noise (2022)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 02 Dec 2022

Writer-director Baumbach (“The Squid and the Whale,” “Marriage Story”) delivers an effectively unsettling, carefully crafted, at times…

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Review of White Noise (2022)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 02 Dec 2022

Writer-director Baumbach (“The Squid and the Whale,” “Marriage Story”) delivers an effectively unsettling, carefully crafted, at times…

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Review of Violent Night (2022)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 01 Dec 2022

Now comes the gruesomely bloody, cheerfully tasteless, fantastically naughty and entertaining Christmas thriller Violent Night, which is basically…

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Review of Emancipation (2022)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 30 Nov 2022

Despite the undeniable importance of this story and the obvious passion of those involved in telling it, Emancipation is more than anything…

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