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Review of Aftershock (2012)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 07 May 2013

The elements all seem to be there but they're not compiled in a way that creates atmosphere or dread as much as they do confusion and laughter…

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Review of At Any Price (2012)

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

Dennis Quaid nearly makes it worth seeing on his own and I have no doubt that the multi-talented Bahrani can bounce back but this modern farmer's…

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Review of Iron Man 3 (2013)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 01 May 2013

The best in this series and one of the best Marvel films overall…

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Review of Pain & Gain (2013)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 24 Apr 2013

Bay treats the people involved in this true story like CGI creations from one of his Transformers films and the lack of human touch on his…

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Review of The Numbers Station (2013)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 23 Apr 2013

Cusack looks visibly bored. If someone had a camera on you while you were watching it, you would look the same way…

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Review of Oblivion (2013)

By Adam Fendelman (235) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 19 Apr 2013

An ostentatious steak dinner in the special effects department never makes up for a story that tastes more like cheap ramen noodles…

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Review of This Is Martin Bonner (2013)

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

It's a very low-key, slowly paced piece that has a cumulative power through its honesty and realism…

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Review of Trance (2013)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 10 Apr 2013

An undeniably well-made thriller that works back in on itself a few too many times for disbelief to stay suspended but delivers enough escapist…

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Review of The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 04 Apr 2013

More thematically dense and ambitious than any crime film you'll see this year and with an incredible ensemble, The Place Beyond the Pines…

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Review of Evil Dead (2013)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 04 Apr 2013

That hope for a creative spark has allowed audiences to overlook the notable flaws of Alvarez's film. I get it. I want to love it too…

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Review of G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 28 Mar 2013

When I say, dumb fun, do you focus on the first word or the second one? That will determine whether or not you should see G.I. Joe: Retaliation…

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Review of Mental (2012)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 27 Mar 2013

It's a bewilderingly strange movie, the kind of thing that one might write off as being lost in translation from its Australian origin before…

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Review of Spring Breakers (2013)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 21 Mar 2013

With a pumping, brilliant score, an outstanding supporting performance from James Franco, and some of the most ridiculous behavior you'll see…

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Review of Olympus Has Fallen (2013)

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

There are moments of goofy, B-movie fun (certainly more of them than in the much-worse A Good Day to Die Hard) but not enough to get over the…

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Review of The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 15 Mar 2013

There are a few laughs here and there and some of the supporting cast works but the leads are woefully miscast and most of the jokes hit with…

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Review of The ABCs of Death (2013)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 07 Mar 2013

If you're gonna bother with this alphabetic orgy of gore and carnage, do it On Demand so you can fast forward through the unbearably bad ones…

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Review of 21 & Over (2013)

By Adam Fendelman (235) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 03 Mar 2013

We feel manipulated into giving The Hangover masterminds our 10 bucks again while getting an immature regression back to what appears like…

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Review of The Last Exorcism Part II (2013)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 01 Mar 2013

At one point, the characters watch part of Daniel Stamm's effective original online after the found footage from that film goes viral…

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Review of Snitch (2013)

By Adam Fendelman (235) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 21 Feb 2013

Dwayne Johnson doesn't just want to be The Rock. And perhaps he is more after all…

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Review of A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 13 Feb 2013

Proves two things - that Charlie Sheen is a better actor than his public persona and stint on Two and a Half Men may have led you to believe…

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