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82%
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TrollHunter (2011) |
"
The film is shot with handheld cameras in the standard mockumentary style, but the content is often hilarious, especially when the trolls show up."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Dec 13, 2011
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35%
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Battle: Los Angeles (2011) |
"
Terminally stupid."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Dec 6, 2011
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3.5/5
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78%
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Biloxi Blues (1988) |
"
Broderick acts with a beautifully wary exuberance, full of a puckish vulnerability and anxious, twisted impishness."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 26, 2011
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26%
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The Three Musketeers (2011) |
"
This one is overblown, over-dressed, and grandiosely dopey, packed with gargantuan sets and ludicrous action scenes and shot in unusually dark and dingy 3-D."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Oct 20, 2011
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17%
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I Don't Know How She Does It (2011) |
"
It's smart, swanky, and good-looking, but strangely, it's not all that funny."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Sep 15, 2011
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27%
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Colombiana (2011) |
"
Often improbable, sometimes ludicrous, but frequently exciting."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Sep 1, 2011
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59%
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Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark (2011) |
"
The remake plays like a shallower, more clichéd variation on his masterpiece, Pan's Labyrinth, but its mix of gory effects and deliciously old-fashioned visuals make for a classy, scary horror show."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Aug 25, 2011
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95%
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The Guard (2011) |
"
Brendan Gleeson, as beefily Irish an actor as anyone since Victor McLaglen, is always believable and frequently hilarious."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Aug 5, 2011
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25%
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The Change-Up (2011) |
"
They're good at their specialties -- Reynolds's casual jock studliness and Bateman's nervous white-collar introversion -- and they're even better at switching into the other guy's shtick and mannerisms."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Aug 4, 2011
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3/4
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63%
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The Afterlight (2010) |
"
The director-writer-editor pair, and cinematographer White, show a sheer love of moviemaking that often makes their film a joy to watch."
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Movie City News
Posted Jul 6, 2011
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35%
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) |
"
If you're going to make a movie in which some of your stars are animated toys and much of downtown Chicago is reduced to rubble, this is the way to do it: shamelessly, with no expense spared and no cliche avoided."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Jun 29, 2011
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27%
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Green Lantern (2011) |
"
The result is a deadly disappointment, despite Ryan Reynolds's cocky, muscle-flexing charisma."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Jun 16, 2011
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78%
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Fast Five (2011) |
"
The whole thing progresses to one of the looniest heists of all time. The result is the most exciting, visually jazzy, and absurd entry in the series."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 29, 2011
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38%
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Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family (2011) |
"
Like most of Perry's movies, this one oscillates wildly and shamelessly between raunch and pathos, leaving plenty of room for the performers to work. The lively ensemble includes a scene-stealing Cassi Davis as pothead Aunt Bam."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 29, 2011
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73%
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POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (2011) |
"
Funny, informative, and at times outrageously cheeky."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 28, 2011
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3/4
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56%
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The Conspirator (2011) |
"
Deals dramatically and memorably with the vagaries of the law, and with the wars between justice and injustice, between vengeance and mercy, between truth and prejudice."
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Movie City News
Posted Apr 20, 2011
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84%
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The Lincoln Lawyer (2011) |
"
This pungent neo-noir can be sleazy and over-familiar, but like the protagonist, it's so smart and crafty that you may forgive its flaws."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 17, 2011
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100%
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The Godfather (1972) |
"
Brando made Don Vito something we rarely see in movies: a tragicomic villain-hero, a vulnerable hood."
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Chicago Tribune
Posted Feb 23, 2011
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56%
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Unknown (2011) |
"
The snow and haze that Spanish director Jaume Collet-Serra keeps pumping into the street scenes seem to have drifted into the script as well."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 18, 2011
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38%
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The Eagle (2011) |
"
Exciting and even moving, this robust epic is filled with action, male bonding, and a terrifying sense of wilderness."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 10, 2011
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3.5/4
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91%
|
Winnebago Man (2010) |
"
It isn't perfect, but hell, neither was the Winnebago."
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Movie City News
Posted Dec 8, 2010
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3/4
|
86%
|
The House of the Devil (2009) |
"
Ti West knows how to set up his prey for the kill"
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Movie City News
Posted Nov 2, 2009
|
|
3.5/5
|
95%
|
Star Trek (2009) |
"
The movie, typically for Abrams, is almost continuously exciting."
—
Movie City News
Posted May 15, 2009
|
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2.5/5
|
66%
|
The Brothers Bloom (2009) |
"
... it's not important, but it's fun ..."
—
Movie City News
Posted May 15, 2009
|
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4/5
|
93%
|
L'Heure d'été (Summer Hours) (2009) |
"
One of my favorites of the year is this wonderful French family ensemble film ..."
—
Movie City News
Posted May 15, 2009
|
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2.5/5
|
37%
|
Angels & Demons (2009) |
"
For sheer off-the charts looniness, it'll be hard to top the furious plot and flabbergasting climax of Angels and Demons ..."
—
Movie City News
Posted May 15, 2009
|
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3/4
|
56%
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The Soloist (2009) |
"
The writer, Susannah Grant, director Joe Wright, and especially the two superb leading actors all give the film life and humanity."
—
Movie City News
Posted Apr 24, 2009
|
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3/4
|
65%
|
Watchmen (2009) |
"
This is good stuff, and perhaps we shouldn't fault it for not being great stuff."
—
Movie City News
Posted Mar 5, 2009
|
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3/4
|
61%
|
Valkyrie (2008) |
"
As a high-gloss, high-powered, high tech (WW2 era) thriller, with real-life overtones, it's often hell on wheels."
—
Movie City News
Posted Dec 31, 2008
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41%
|
Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008) |
"
... it's a lapdog of a script, all gussied up. And the Beverly Hills scenes made me want to arf."
—
Movie City News
Posted Oct 29, 2008
|
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3/5
|
54%
|
Body of Lies (2008) |
"
It's an exciting movie, done in the flashy, breath-catching hyper-visual mode we expect from Scott. But in the end, it gets bogged down ..."
—
Movie City News
Posted Oct 10, 2008
|
|
3.5/4
|
87%
|
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Hellboy 2) (2008) |
"
We should be glad that del Toro is operating at his peak right now, getting all the money and latitude he needs to weave his spells."
—
Movie City News
Posted Jul 10, 2008
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3/4
|
29%
|
Lucky You (2007) |
"
Hanson and Roth shuffle the two sides of the movie, the poker tournament and the love affair, with a Howard Hawksian feel for casual professionalism."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 10, 2008
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|
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80%
|
Anthem (1997) |
"
It's enjoyable precisely because Hahn and Gabel give us both sides of the experience: the interviewer and interviewee. Though there's an undercurrent of melancholy, Anthem is a bright ride, a welcome shot of 60's optimism in a gray post-modern age."
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Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 24, 2007
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—
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——
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Bad City (2006) |
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jul 14, 2007
|
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3/4
|
58%
|
First Snow (2007) |
"
A smart, tense modern film noir."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 30, 2007
|
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—
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23%
|
Psychopathia Sexualis (2006) |
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 30, 2007
|
|
—
|
98%
|
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (Esma's Secret - Grbavica) (2007) |
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 30, 2007
|
|
—
|
22%
|
Typhoon (2006) |
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 30, 2007
|
|
—
|
73%
|
Pulse (Kairo) (2005) |
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 30, 2007
|
|
3/4
|
86%
|
Steel City (2006) |
"
Steel City is one of the most hopeful movies I've seen recently -- not just for its humane, realistic story line (about a small-town family in crisis), but in its very being."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 14, 2007
|
|
3/4
|
63%
|
Day Watch (2007) |
"
One hell of a movie."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 14, 2007
|
|
3.5/4
|
72%
|
Golden Door (2007) |
"
An often lyrical and moving movie."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 14, 2007
|
|
|
63%
|
Labyrinth (1986) |
"
A real masterpiece of puppetry and special effects, an absolutely gorgeous children's fantasy movie."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 14, 2007
|
|
4/4
|
78%
|
Private Fears in Public Places (Coeurs) (2007) |
"
A film about love and blunders done from the perspective of age, crafted by writer Alan Ayckbourn, 68, and director Alain Resnais, 85. Our younger directors and screenwriters should show this much brilliance and feeling."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 8, 2007
|
|
3/4
|
36%
|
Hollywood Dreams (2007) |
"
Jaglom's Hollywood Dreams are far closer to reality than they might seem. Unfortunately."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 7, 2007
|
|
2.5/4
|
44%
|
Angel-A (2005) |
"
We all have our own view of paradise, but as long as Besson has Arbogast, his camera and those surreal bare Parisian streets, his schlocky heaven enchants the eye, if not the mind."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 7, 2007
|
|
2.5/4
|
78%
|
Crazy Love (2007) |
"
A documentary about a mad love affair, a movie that's about as compulsively watchable as a great tabloid headline story is compulsively readable -- and also a lot more rewarding."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 7, 2007
|
|
3/4
|
83%
|
Paprika (2006) |
"
The movie keeps flooding us with strange, scary imagery."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 7, 2007
|
85%
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