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Review of The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 28 Sep 2022

The intentions and performances are irrefutably sincere and noble. The execution almost always feels a little bit forced and a little bit false…

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Review of Bros (2022)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 28 Sep 2022

To be sure, this is a special moment for movies, seeing as how this is a mainstream, theatrical release, R-rated gay rom-com featuring a cast…

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Review of The Good House (2021)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 27 Sep 2022

You might not buy all the plot machinations, but as for the sight of Weaver and Kline together again: That’s an easy sell…

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Review of Blonde (2022)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 26 Sep 2022

It’s a memorable performance in a film that wants to dazzle us with its trick bag of visuals but is rotten at its core…

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Review of Meet Cute (2022)

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

Cuoco and Davidson make for an endearingly offbeat, magnetic pairing; the two actors are up to the challenge of playing different shades within…

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Review of Don't Worry Darling (2022)

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

Beneath its glossy surface, this is nothing more than a cheap parlor trick, with heavy-handed messaging about female empowerment, and a final…

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Review of See How They Run (2022)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 16 Sep 2022

This is yet another meta story with the characters commenting on the story as it goes along, and while that gimmick is becoming tiresome, this…

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Review of Do Revenge (2022)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 15 Sep 2022

This is a slick-looking film with a gorgeous cast and a sprinkling of funny one-liners, but the dark comedy often falls flat, nearly every…

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Review of The Silent Twins (2022)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 15 Sep 2022

For all its stylistic flourishes, “The Silent Twins” winds up a relatively superficial entry in the genre of mental health biopics…

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Review of The Woman King (2022)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 14 Sep 2022

Director Gina Prince-Bythewood’s stirring and sprawling period-piece epic “The Woman King” is groundbreaking in that it tells the story…

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Review of Confess, Fletch (2022)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 14 Sep 2022

It might be another 30 years before we get the next “Fletch,” but if Hamm is up for a repeat appearance, I’d be more than pleased to…

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Review of Clerks III (2022)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 12 Sep 2022

Clerks III is a darkly funny, bittersweet curtain call for some undeniably enduring characters we first met back in 1994 when Smith famously…

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Review of Pinocchio (2022)

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

Every frame of “Pinocchio” is filled with rich and lush detail — at times this almost looks like a 3-D film — and the performances,…

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Review of End of the Road (2022)

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

End of the Road was produced for maybe 10% of the budget allotted for the big, bloated, star-studded Netflix thrillers “The Gray Man” and…

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Review of Pinocchio (2024)

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

Every frame of “Pinocchio” is filled with rich and lush detail — at times this almost looks like a 3-D film — and the performances,…

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Review of Gigi & Nate (2022)

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

Back in the day, Gigi & Nate would have been a prime-time network “Movie of the Week” or an “ABC Afterschool Special,” in that it has…

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Review of McEnroe (2022)

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

In the autobiographical documentary McEnroe…

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Review of Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. (2022)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 31 Aug 2022

Played as a satire, it offers far too few genuine laughs, and we’re left somewhere between mockumentary and depressing character study…

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Review of Me Time (2022)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 25 Aug 2022

Writer-director John Hamburg (writer of “Meet the Parents,” director of “Along Came Polly” and “I Love You, Man”) has the ability…

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Review of Me Time (2022)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 25 Aug 2022

Writer-director John Hamburg (writer of “Meet the Parents,” director of “Along Came Polly” and “I Love You, Man”) has the ability…

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