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Review of Transamerica (2005)

By Michael Wilmington (1,474) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 03 May 2015

At its best, Transamerica made me laugh and feel for Bree. At its worst, it made me cringe at the potential creepiness of its central relationship…

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Review of Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 02 May 2015

Newell has done some fine work in all sorts of genres, from “Four Weddings and a Funeral” to “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,”…

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Review of Hyena (2015)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 29 Apr 2015

At its most palatable the film recalls The Long Good Friday; at its harshest, it's a grotty cousin to The Bad Lieutenant…

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Review of Presumed Innocent (1990)

By Gene Siskel (446) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 29 Apr 2015

A riveting adaptation of Scott Turow`s novel about a prosecutor prosecuted for murder…

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Review of Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 27 Apr 2015

Entertaining as much of Avengers 2 is, especially when it's just hanging out with the gang in between scuffles (the Guardians of the Galaxy…

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Review of Welcome to New York (2014)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 22 Apr 2015

The film, a sleek and oddly moving study in the cost of debauchery, has its gleeful excesses…

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Review of The Water Diviner (2014)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 22 Apr 2015

Crowe's feature directorial debut, The Water Diviner, stems from an honest impulse to dramatize ordinary people who honor their dead…

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Review of Little Boy (2015)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 22 Apr 2015

Director Monteverde, whose previous feature, Bella, came out nine years ago, clearly meant his film to lift up everyone and condescend to no…

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Review of Sariwa (1996)

By Gene Siskel (446) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 20 Apr 2015

The script by writer-director Boaz Yakin is fresh itself, marrying the physical violence of Fresh's world with the intellectual violence of…

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Review of Fresh (2009)

By Gene Siskel (446) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 20 Apr 2015

The script by writer-director Boaz Yakin is fresh itself, marrying the physical violence of Fresh's world with the intellectual violence of…

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Review of Jungle Fever (1994)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 20 Apr 2015

Jungle Fever may be a failure, but it is the kind of failure that engenders hope: It finds Lee refining the skills he already possesses and…

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Review of Jungle Fever (1991)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 20 Apr 2015

Jungle Fever may be a failure, but it is the kind of failure that engenders hope: It finds Lee refining the skills he already possesses and…

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Review of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 17 Apr 2015

Style is a tricky, elusive thing, and this film doesn’t so much have it as strive for it, constantly…

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Review of Body of Lies (2008)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 16 Apr 2015

The most interesting thing about this slick but frustrating picture is the way it puts Crowe’s Hoffman at the center of our mixed feelings…

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Review of Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 15 Apr 2015

By design, the dialogue from the (fictional) play comments directly on the central, shifting power relationship in the film, sometimes elegantly,…

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Review of Ex Machina (2015)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 15 Apr 2015

Alas, the movie cannot resolve its story in any sort of surprising or truly fresh way…

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Review of True Story (2015)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 15 Apr 2015

True Story is a case of a well-crafted film, made by a first-time feature director with an impressive theatrical pedigree, that nonetheless…

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Review of Monkey Kingdom (2015)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 15 Apr 2015

Even though the film shows very little of the rough stuff, it's still fairly traumatizing…

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Review of Freedom on My Mind (1994)

By John Petrakis (110) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 13 Apr 2015

This superbly produced documentary should be must-viewing for anyone with an interest in the civil rights movement or American history…

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Review of Fred Claus (2007)

By Sid Smith (61) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 11 Apr 2015

Fred Claus seems a clever installment, not a seasonal classic, a buffet whose many nibbles you sample, move on and quickly forget…

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