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Review of Paraíso (2013)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 20 Oct 2013

Hough sleepwalks through Cody's worst effort to date as a writer and only supporting turns by the always-game Russell Brand and never-bad Octavia…

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Review of Paradise (2013)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 20 Oct 2013

Hough sleepwalks through Cody's worst effort to date as a writer and only supporting turns by the always-game Russell Brand and never-bad Octavia…

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Review of Carrie (2013)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 16 Oct 2013

If you're not automatically attuned to smash remakes for their very existence, Peirce's update works on its own terms, and can serve as a modern…

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Review of 12 Years a Slave (2013)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 16 Oct 2013

The sheer power of the performances capably transport viewers to a place that most of us can't even comprehend…

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Review of Carrie (2002)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 16 Oct 2013

If you're not automatically attuned to smash remakes for their very existence, Peirce's update works on its own terms, and can serve as a modern…

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Review of Captain Phillips (2013)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 09 Oct 2013

A harrowing crowdpleaser, the kind of film that sends viewers back into the real world a little exhausted but satisfied…

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Review of A.C.O.D. (2013)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 09 Oct 2013

Just hearing brilliant actors like Richard Jenkins and Catherine O'Hara at each other's throats or watching remarkably likable stars like Adam…

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Review of The Institute (2013)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 03 Oct 2013

I don't care how much of it is real and how much is nonsense. It's just a fun, clever film about looking at the world from a different angle…

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Review of Gravity (2013)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 02 Oct 2013

The most important film of 2013 in terms of special effects is also one of its most human, emotional stories. That's the wonder of cinema…

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Review of Muscle Shoals (2013)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 02 Oct 2013

The director wisely doesn't turn this into cavalcade of stars, keeping the focus as much on the man who built this hotbed of creativity and…

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Review of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)

By Adam Fendelman (235) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 26 Sep 2013

The film had the right idea with Barry the strawberry, who poops jelly when he's afraid…

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Review of Computer Chess (2013)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 25 Sep 2013

It becomes something that's hard to decipher; hard to put into words in a review. That's a good thing…

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Review of Enough Said (2013)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 25 Sep 2013

Holofcener and her ridiculously talented cast find truth about love and second chances not in their set-up but in the honesty of the characters…

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Review of Blue Caprice (2013)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 25 Sep 2013

The movie never gets beyond the most iconic image that gives it a name; never digging deep enough into these characters to register as something…

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Review of Wadjda (2012)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 19 Sep 2013

Not all revolution starts with violence or even outrage. Sometimes it starts with a game of hopscotch…

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Review of Prisoners (2013)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 18 Sep 2013

It's a harrowing, excellent piece of work, narratively inconsistent in the final act but a film for which all flaws are easily overlooked by…

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Review of Four (2013)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 17 Sep 2013

Four goes believable places but avoids the trappings of traditional melodrama…

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Review of A Single Shot (2013)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 17 Sep 2013

Sam Rockwell has quietly developed into one of the most essential actors of his generation…

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Review of Four (2011)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 17 Sep 2013

Four goes believable places but avoids the trappings of traditional melodrama…

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Review of Short Term 12 (2013)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 12 Sep 2013

Difficult to describe without it sounding manipulative or melodramatic but I'll do my best…

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