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Review of Black Sea (2009)

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

Many will forgive all the contrivances and a muted ending that doesn't quite come off. It is, after all, a submarine picture…

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Review of Black Sea (2014)

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

Many will forgive all the contrivances and a muted ending that doesn't quite come off. It is, after all, a submarine picture…

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Review of Still Life (2013)

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

Still Life is a very different story, small and quiet and, unfortunately, airless…

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Review of Still Life (2015)

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

Still Life is a very different story, small and quiet and, unfortunately, airless…

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Review of Mommy (2014)

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

See it; see those three performers go to town…

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Review of Mommy (2015)

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

See it; see those three performers go to town…

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Review of Still Life (2015)

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

Still Life is a very different story, small and quiet and, unfortunately, airless…

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Review of Mommy (2015)

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

See it; see those three performers go to town…

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Review of The Hurt Locker (2008)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 25 Jan 2015

[Kathryn] Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal...have made the first fictional feature about American soldiers in Iraq that doesn't fall apart,…

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Review of The Ant Bully (2006)

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

It lacks a sharp look and satisfyingly fleshed-out story and compensates with one numbing round of insect- or human-based peril after another…

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Review of Cake (2014)

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

I wish the movie were messier, more surprising…

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Review of The Boy Next Door (2015)

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

I wish The Boy Next Door were a different, zingier sort of mediocrity, but whenever it threatens to go the full Zalman King Two Moon Junction…

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Review of Cake (2015)

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

I wish the movie were messier, more surprising…

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Review of Cry-Baby (1990)

By Gene Siskel (446) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 21 Jan 2015

For a while the actors seem intimidated by the `50s references, but the film eventually develops a musical energy that carries the day…

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Review of A Sound of Thunder (2005)

By Michael Esposito (16) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 15 Jan 2015

One redeeming feature of this picture is that it will make great fodder for those make-fun-of-the-movie TV shows…

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Review of What Planet Are You From? (2000)

By Marc Caro (44) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 15 Jan 2015

Shandling and Nichols strain to reach a mainstream audience and wind up sounding like they, too, have been trained to tell us what we want…

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Review of American Sniper (2014)

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

The film is rarely dull; it's one life-and-death sequence after another, and the filmmaking's efficient, crisply delivered…

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Review of Two Days, One Night (2014)

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

As is, Cotillard (nominated for best actress) scrupulously avoids melodrama…

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Review of Blackhat (2015)

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

A thickly plotted disappointment, yet it has three or four big sequences proving that director Michael Mann, who gave us Thief, Heat, Collateral…

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Review of A Most Violent Year (2014)

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

This is a film for actual moviegoing grown-ups who don't mind a little quality now and then…

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