|
3/4
|
66%
|
The Dictator (2012) |
"
The Dictator is funny, in addition to being obscene, disgusting, scatological, vulgar, crude and so on."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted May 11, 2012
|
|
—
|
100%
|
Ivan Groznyy (Ivan the Terrible, Part One) (1944) |
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted May 11, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
93%
|
Headhunters (2012) |
"
I knew I was being manipulated and didn't care. It was a pleasure to see how well it was being done."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
75%
|
Sound of My Voice (2012) |
"
[Marling] is a talent with an understated presence. It conveys in this film an insidious conviction: What is her motive, really?"
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
66%
|
God Bless America (2012) |
"
Here is a film that begins with merciless comic savagery and descends into merely merciless savagery. But wow, what an opening."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
29%
|
Girl In Progress (2012) |
"
Attention, women! You should never sleep with a man whose only attribute is that you want to sleep with him. I should write a book of my own."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
41%
|
Dark Shadows (2012) |
"
It offers wonderful things, but they aren't what's important. It's as if Burton directed at arm's length, unwilling to find juice in the story."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
64%
|
Keyhole (2012) |
"
A Maddin film has a disturbing way of always seeming to exist in the present, like a dream. You know what happened and you even know what will happen, but you also see it all shifting and changing."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted May 3, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
79%
|
Surviving Progress (2012) |
"
It's self-evident and tells the truth."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted May 3, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
85%
|
Bernie (2012) |
"
I had to forget what I knew about Black. He creates this character out of thin air, it's like nothing he's done before, and it proves that an actor can be a miraculous thing in the right role."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted May 3, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
75%
|
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012) |
"
A charming, funny and heartwarming movie ... a smoothly crafted entertainment that makes good use of seven superb veterans."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted May 3, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
93%
|
Marvel's The Avengers (2012) |
"
"The Avengers" is done well by Joss Whedon, with style and energy. It provides its fans with exactly what they desire."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted May 3, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
67%
|
The Music Lovers (1971) |
"
Totally irresponsible as a film about, or inspired by, or parallel to, or bearing a vague resemblance to, Tchaikovsky, his life and times. It is not, however, a complete failure."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Apr 30, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
22%
|
Raven (2012) |
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Apr 27, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
21%
|
Darling Companion (2012) |
"
It is depressing to reflect on the wealth of talent that conspired to make this inert and listless movie."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Apr 27, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
87%
|
Boy (2012) |
"
A film like this would have little chance without the right casting, and James Rolleston is so right as Boy, it's difficult to imagine anyone else."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
96%
|
Monsieur Lazhar (2012) |
"
Its purpose is to present us with a situation, explore the people involved and show us a man who is dealing with his own deep hurts."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
59%
|
We Have a Pope (2012) |
"
"We Have a Pope" has great heart."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
21%
|
The Raven (2012) |
"
"The Raven," a feverish costume thriller, attempts to explain Poe's death by cobbling together spare parts from thrillers about serial killers."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
38%
|
Oscar and the Lady in Pink () |
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Apr 20, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
94%
|
Marley (2012) |
"
"Marley," an ambitious and comprehensive film, does what is probably the best possible job of documenting an important life."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
91%
|
Fake It So Real (2012) |
"
"Fake It So Real" filled me with affection for its down-and-out heroes, a group of semi-pro wrestlers in Lincolnton, N.C."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
33%
|
The Lady (2012) |
"
[It] does indeed deal with a real life, but follows so faithfully the traditional shape of film biography that it feels less convincing."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
In the Family (2012) |
"
What a courageous first feature this is, a film that sidesteps shopworn stereotypes and tells a quiet, firm, deeply humanist story about doing the right thing."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
51%
|
Think Like a Man (2012) |
"
Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
20%
|
The Lucky One (2012) |
"
If you've ever liked a Nicholas Sparks movie, you're likely to enjoy this one."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
100%
|
This Is Not a Film (2003) |
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Apr 13, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
36%
|
Lockout (2012) |
"
Snow is an overwritten hero who talks like a sitcom character. Every line is a wisecrack, a gag, or what he fondly thinks of as a witticism."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
0%
|
Deadline (2012) |
"
The plot, in short, is underwhelming. It merely follows the reporters as the screenplay serves them the solution to their case on a silver platter."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
87%
|
Bully (2012) |
"
We feel sympathy for the victims, and their parents or friends, but the film helplessly seems to treat bullying as a problem without a solution."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
76%
|
Damsels in Distress (2012) |
"
It's delightful and a little bewildering to find a 2012 comedy that evokes a world that exists only in the novels of P.G. Wodehouse."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
100%
|
This Is Not a Film (2012) |
"
I would like to show "This Is Not a Film" to those in the United States who are in favor of a close union of church and state."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
90%
|
The Cabin in the Woods (2012) |
"
This is not a perfect movie; it's so ragged, it's practically constructed of loose ends. But it's exciting because it ventures so far off the map."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
47%
|
The Three Stooges (2012) |
"
I didn't laugh much."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
0%
|
Four Lovers (2012) |
"
You know there's something wrong with a sex movie when the good parts are the dialogue."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
98%
|
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2012) |
"
As a documentary about world-class sushi, this film is definitive. It runs only 81 minutes, but the subject is finite."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
24%
|
We the Party (2012) |
"
Despite its flashy cinematography and colorful sets, it contains a great deal that is serious about growing up in America today."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
43%
|
American Reunion (2012) |
"
"American Reunion" has a sense of deja vu, but it still delivers a lot of nice laughs."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
——
|
They Call It Myanmar: Lifting The Curtain (2012) |
"
I've never seen a documentary with more smiling faces."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Apr 2, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
29%
|
Musical Chairs (2012) |
"
A feel-good romantic fantasy that is likely to inspire a hollow laugh among some people in wheelchairs."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
82%
|
The Salt of Life (2012) |
"
This is a movie about a man who is past his shelf life."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
79%
|
The Deep Blue Sea (2012) |
"
The film feels pity for the exhausted city of London. The vast metropolis was the scene of greatness during World War II, but a few years later, it is drab, hungry and without optimism."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
50%
|
Mirror Mirror (2012) |
"
The dialogue is rather flat, the movie sort of boring, and there's not much energy in the two places it should really be felt: Between the Queen and Snow White, and between Snow and the Prince."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
25%
|
Wrath of the Titans (2012) |
"
You get an idea of who the major players are, and then they spend a modest amount of time shouting laughable dialogue at one another while being all but forced off the screen by special effects."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
82%
|
Goon (2012) |
"
The best thing about "Goon" is not the hockey action, or who wins and who loses. It's Doug's rags-to-riches story."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
67%
|
The Scenic Route () |
"
Mark Rappaport makes movies that look, sound and feel like nobody else's movies. He is an original. "
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Mar 25, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
84%
|
The Raid: Redemption (2012) |
"
I am dismayed. I have no prejudice against violence when I find it in a well-made film. But this film is almost brutally cynical in its approach."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Mar 22, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
24%
|
October Baby (2012) |
"
The film as a whole is amateurish and ungainly, can't find a consistent tone, is too long, is overladen with music that tries to paraphrase the story and is photographed with too many beauty shots that slow the progress."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Mar 22, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
58%
|
Delicacy (2012) |
"
"Delicacy" is a sweetheart of a love story, and cornball from stem to stern."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Mar 22, 2012
|
85%
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