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2.5/4
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45%
|
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) |
"
It isn't a "good" movie in the usual sense (or most senses), but it is jolly and good-natured, and Michael Caine and Dwayne Johnson are among the most likable of actors."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Feb 9, 2012
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|
3.5/4
|
75%
|
House of Pleasures (2011) |
"
No one, male or female, has any fun, but the men behave as if they do. They are all half-stupefied by the languor in which they drown."
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Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Feb 9, 2012
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|
2.5/4
|
14%
|
W.E. (2012) |
"
"W.E." is an elegant, ambitious and relentlessly monotonous film."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
82%
|
Addiction Incorporated (2011) |
"
"Addiction Incorporated" follows tobacco's journey downhill from respectability."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Feb 9, 2012
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|
2.5/4
|
56%
|
My Piece of the Pie (2011) |
"
True, the movie sidesteps a couple of cliches it seems headed directly toward, but I might have preferred them to the preposterous melodrama it substitutes."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Feb 2, 2012
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|
3/4
|
71%
|
Windfall (2012) |
"
"Windfall" left me disheartened. I thought wind energy was something I could believe in."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Feb 2, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
93%
|
Coriolanus (2011) |
"
I admired the movie even though I found it neither fish nor fowl."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Feb 2, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
76%
|
The Innkeepers (2012) |
"
Ti West knows how to build suspense with quiet and timing."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Feb 2, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
64%
|
The Woman in Black (2012) |
"
Not since young Hutter arrived at Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu" has a journey to a dreaded house been more fearsome than the one in "The Woman in Black.""
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Feb 2, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
85%
|
Chronicle (2012) |
"
Sometimes a movie arrives out of the blue that announces the arrival of considerable new talents."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Feb 2, 2012
|
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4/4
|
99%
|
A Separation (2011) |
"
The film involves its audience in an unusually direct way, because although we can see the logic of everyone's position, our emotions often disagree."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
77%
|
The Grey (2012) |
"
When I learned of Sarah Palin hunting wolves from a helicopter, my sensibilities were tested, but after this film, I was prepared to call in more helicopters."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
80%
|
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012) |
"
That the film works so brilliantly is a tribute in large part to the actors."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
53%
|
Albert Nobbs (2012) |
"
This is such a brave performance by Glenn Close, who in making Albert so real, makes the character as pathetic and unlikable as she must have been in life."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
96%
|
Tomboy (2011) |
"
"Tomboy" is tender and affectionate."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
32%
|
Man on a Ledge (2012) |
"
The movie cuts back and forth between two preposterous plot lines and uses the man on the ledge as a device to pump up the tension."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
——
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Amador () |
"
Simply on the story level, "Amador" could have been a better film."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
71%
|
Sorcerer (1977) |
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 20, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
80%
|
Haywire (2012) |
"
Carano is wonderfully athletic, which is just as well, because she spends most of the film being wonderful athletic."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
95%
|
Pina (2011) |
"
I watched the film in a sort of reverie."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
36%
|
Red Tails (2012) |
"
Substitute 1940s fighters for spaceships, move them closer to Earth, and you have the audience appeal of this movie."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
45%
|
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012) |
"
No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever be able to provide one for 9/11."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
74%
|
Norwegian Wood (2012) |
"
It's sweet all the way up, wavers in dread and slides down to doom."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
46%
|
The Flowers of War (2011) |
"
A third of a million may be dead, but for our purposes, all depends on the survival of these young women, and the redemption of the alcoholic American. Do you get my drift?"
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
——
|
Mulberry Child () |
"
There's a universal story here about immigrant parents and children, and how American culture can swamp family traditions, and make parents and children culturally unrecognizable to one another."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
85%
|
King of Devil's Island (2011) |
"
The film plays well, and is involving, but in one form or another, this is a story often told."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
—
|
97%
|
The Killing (1956) |
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 13, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
72%
|
Carnage (2011) |
"
The point isn't the plot, it's the performances. Here four familiar actors seem ideally cast for their roles."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 12, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
48%
|
Contraband (2012) |
"
"Contraband" involves a lot of energy, but I'm getting tired of violent retreads of these heist elements."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 12, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
54%
|
The Iron Lady (2012) |
"
You have to be very talented to work with Meryl Streep. It also helps to know how to use her. "The Iron Lady" fails in both of these categories."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 12, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
34%
|
Joyful Noise (2012) |
"
The strange thing is that it makes no particular effort to please its target audience, which would seem to be lovers of gospel choirs."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 12, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
67%
|
Newlyweds (2012) |
"
It has both the charms and the shortcomings of the indie fringe."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 12, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
——
|
Sundance Film Festival Shorts () |
"
What's great about programs like this is that there are countless shorts submitted to Sundance, and those selected are the very best."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 12, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
78%
|
Outrage (2009) |
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 6, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
82%
|
The Other Conquest (2007) |
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 6, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
95%
|
Pariah (2011) |
"
The film is an impressive debut for writer-director Dee Rees."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 5, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
53%
|
In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011) |
"
The film does what all war films must, which is to reduce the incomprehensible suffering of countless people into the ultimate triumph of a few."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 5, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
83%
|
Outrage (2011) |
"
It's like a version of "Cinema Paradiso" where all the murders were saved up by a censor and strung together for a bloodbath."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 5, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
77%
|
The Conquest (2011) |
"
"The Conquest," a feature about recent French politics, makes me yearn for a similar American treatment of our own scene."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 5, 2012
|
|
—
|
97%
|
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) |
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Dec 30, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
94%
|
Paul Goodman Changed My Life (2011) |
"
"Paul Goodman Changed My Life" is a documentary about a man who changed mine."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Dec 30, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
20%
|
Mister Frost () |
"
"Mr. Frost" is silly, but not silly enough. The problem with movies like this is that they've forgotten how to be absurd."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Dec 27, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
63%
|
Miss Minoes (2011) |
"
"Miss Minoes" is a film I suspect would be adored by young girls who love cats. I am not that young woman."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Dec 22, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
63%
|
We Bought a Zoo (2011) |
"
The result is too much formula and not enough human interest."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Dec 22, 2011
|
|
3.5/4
|
76%
|
War Horse (2011) |
"
The film is made with superb artistry. Spielberg is the master of an awesome canvas."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Dec 22, 2011
|
|
3.5/4
|
75%
|
The Adventures of Tintin (2011) |
"
"The Adventures of Tintin" is an ambitious and lively caper, miles smarter than your average 3-D family film."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Dec 21, 2011
|
|
3.5/4
|
87%
|
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) |
"
This is never the kind of movie where they're going to fall in love. That she even smiles is a breakthrough."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Dec 20, 2011
|
|
3.5/4
|
43%
|
That Girl in Yellow Boots (2011) |
"
The film's value is in its portrait of Ruth, and her independence as a solo outsider in a vast, uncaring city."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Dec 15, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
84%
|
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) |
"
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" looks, sounds and feels exactly right."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Dec 15, 2011
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