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Review of August: Osage County (2013)

By Richard Knight (277) for Windy City Times (216) on 27 Jun 2014

New Hollywood motto: Never act with kids, dogs or Streep--when she's in Mommie Dearest mode, that is…

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Review of The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

By Richard Knight (277) for Windy City Times (216) on 27 Jun 2014

[An] ultimately hollow exercise in movie excess…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

By Richard Knight (277) for Windy City Times (216) on 27 Jun 2014

Lawrence is the rare female action-movie lead who carries on the fierce tradition of Sigourney Weaver in the Alien franchise -- easily the…

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Review of Kill Your Darlings (2013)

By Richard Knight (277) for Windy City Times (216) on 27 Jun 2014

A very well-made film that gives us a peek into the formation of several future gay icons…

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Review of American Hustle (2013)

By Richard Knight (277) for Windy City Times (216) on 27 Jun 2014

An entertaining but bloated, starry, Grand Hotel-sized con artist caper that looks, sounds and feels like Scorsese without a smidgen of the…

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Review of Passion (2013)

By Richard Knight (277) for Windy City Times (216) on 27 Jun 2014

Like late-period Hitchcock, you hang in there because there's enough zing left on the screen to let you know you're watching a real filmmaker…

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Review of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

By Richard Knight (277) for Windy City Times (216) on 27 Jun 2014

The ultimate reason why [it] feels fresh and vibrant [is because] it harkens so far back in movie history to find its inspiration that it proves…

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Review of Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)

By Richard Knight (277) for Windy City Times (216) on 26 Jun 2014

While the movie looks great and kicks into satisfying high gear as it heads toward the last act...the tinhorn feeling of the bulk...leaves…

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Review of Cloudburst (2011)

By Richard Knight (277) for Windy City Times (216) on 26 Jun 2014

The two actors...bring out the best in these two women in spite of the plot lapses and odd tonal shifts...you believe wholeheartedly that these…

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Review of Laurence Anyways (2012)

By Richard Knight (277) for Windy City Times (216) on 26 Jun 2014

Suzanne Clement gives one of those legendary, no-holds-barred performances that announces the arrival of a sensational new screen presence…

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Review of Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's (2013)

By Richard Knight (277) for Windy City Times (216) on 26 Jun 2014

Close to hagiography-but who cares when faced with such an entertaining valentine as this…

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Review of Any Day Now (2012)

By Richard Knight (277) for Windy City Times (216) on 26 Jun 2014

A movie that embraces melodrama and is elevated by its willingness to do that…

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Review of Fruitvale Station (2013)

By Richard Knight (277) for Windy City Times (216) on 26 Jun 2014

Flawed though it is by overstating the obvious, Fruitvale Station is also sensitively acted and well-intentioned…

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Review of Struck by Lightning (2013)

By Richard Knight (277) for Windy City Times (216) on 26 Jun 2014

A sincere rather than charming or laugh-out-loud movie-and tonally, one of the latter would have made it work much better…

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Review of Amour (2012)

By Richard Knight (277) for Windy City Times (216) on 26 Jun 2014

The performances of Riva and Trintignant are revelatory…

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Review of North Sea Texas (2011)

By Richard Knight (277) for Windy City Times (216) on 26 Jun 2014

There's a chilly, wistful and rather matter-of-fact tone to the proceedings and this helps separate the rather run-of-the-mill aspects of the…

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Review of Behind the Candelabra (2013)

By Richard Knight (277) for Windy City Times (216) on 26 Jun 2014

As deeply entertaining and creative as it is socially enlightening…

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Review of Still Mine (2012)

By Richard Knight (277) for Windy City Times (216) on 26 Jun 2014

A bittersweet winner-driven by the strong performances and sharply observed nuances in both McGowan's script and direction…

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Review of The Canyons (2013)

By Richard Knight (277) for Windy City Times (216) on 26 Jun 2014

Schrader's idea of a modern-day noir has promise but Ellis' script lets him down and leaves the actors adrift with no scenes to play…

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Review of Byzantium (2013)

By Richard Knight (277) for Windy City Times (216) on 26 Jun 2014

Although audience fatigue regarding vampires has surely set in...this is a romantic, sensual, bloody good time of a movie for sophisticated adults…

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