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2/4
|
46%
|
Parkland (2013) |
"
The minidramas on display, in the hospital or in the anguish of Zapruder's accidental chronicling of a horror, dart this way and that, inconclusively."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
98%
|
Gravity (2013) |
"
It's a relief to see an unconventional big-budget studio movie that doesn't hew to the same old pounding action beats, or person-to-person physical violence."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
95%
|
Enough Said (2013) |
"
Despite the movie's limitations, it's very satisfying to watch Louis-Dreyfus and Gandolfini enjoy each other's company on screen, as characters, because it's satisfying to watch them enjoy each other's company as performers."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
59%
|
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013) |
"
Better in every respect than the original "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.""
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
88%
|
Rush (2013) |
"
"Rush," while never dull, rarely feels dramatically alive; it hits its marks dutifully and darts onward."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
83%
|
Don Jon (2013) |
"
It's a dark comedy about matters of the heart, and how far some people go to take their minds off such matters."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
71%
|
C.O.G. (2013) |
"
Modest and good-looking, the film starts as dark comedy and ends in pathos. Director Alvarez makes the Oregon scenery a character unto itself."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 20, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
34%
|
Salinger (2013) |
"
A good documentary can lead you to a place of not knowing what to believe about a subject. A bad documentary tells you what to believe, and why, but in ways provoking disbelief in the movie's tactics."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 20, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
98%
|
Wadjda (2013) |
"
"Wadjda" works quietly and well in its story of a young protagonist questioning the restrictive status quo."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
80%
|
Prisoners (2013) |
"
Throughout this beautifully made, slightly specious exercise in Old Testament revenge, the character-study aspects of "Prisoners" coexist intriguingly with the grisly-inhumanity components."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
53%
|
The Muslims Are Coming (2013) |
"
Much of the stand-up material caught on camera has a ring of familiarity and settles for rehashing ethnic and religious stereotypes in new ways. But the best of it provides a perspective, and a punch, transcending the same old punch lines."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
35%
|
Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) |
"
Wan is getting better and better at figuring out what to do with the camera, and maneuvering actors within a shot for maximum suspense, while letting his design collaborators do the rest."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
81%
|
Una noche (One Night) (2013) |
"
Mulloy's camera is fully alive to the geographical possibilities of her location, hustling after the hustlers, pausing for a shot of a caged bird or a nightclub singer. It's quite a stew."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
83%
|
The Patience Stone (2013) |
"
It's a little on-the-nose. But "The Patience Stone" has Farahani, in nearly every shot, and in its meticulously paced way her movie-long confessional is something to see."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
59%
|
Afternoon Delight (2013) |
"
It's an up-and-down movie, honest one minute and a fraud the next, but you stick with it mainly because of Hahn."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
60%
|
Riddick (2013) |
"
This is not one of those Johnny-come-lately sequels preoccupied with getting a new audience up to speed on where the story was. It's about living in the moment, in the now, and killing in the now."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
81%
|
Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013) |
"
It is not a large film. But Lowery may well be a large talent, and he sure knows how to cast the right actors."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
3%
|
Getaway (2013) |
"
So mechanical and derivative, not even the abducted-spouse routine can stoke the audience's rooting interests."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
46%
|
Closed Circuit (2013) |
"
Directed unfussily and well by John Crowley, "Closed Circuit" has enough on the ball in terms of atmosphere and crafty performances to take your mind off the gaps in logic."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 28, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
89%
|
The World's End (2013) |
"
The movie is madly, wonderfully at odds with itself."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
80%
|
Drinking Buddies (2013) |
"
"Drinking Buddies" has a cleaner structure than Swanberg's earlier wanderings, but after several projects I still don't know what compels him as a filmmaker ..."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
91%
|
In a World... (2013) |
"
Bell's debut feature is pretty terrific."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
31%
|
Austenland (2013) |
"
Feels tentative - all too attuned to the blandly easygoing protagonist."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
73%
|
Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) |
"
Like America itself, the movie's a stimulating tangle."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
84%
|
Prince Avalanche (2013) |
"
It's an actors' showcase. But Green films it with real feeling and an eye for parts of the Lone Star State that, as we can see, are no longer."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
30%
|
Kick-Ass 2 (2013) |
"
Honestly, this movie is rank."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
26%
|
Jobs (2013) |
"
Kutcher is everything except interesting."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
27%
|
Planes (2013) |
"
"Cars," with planes. And some cars. And a truck or two."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
54%
|
Lovelace (2013) |
"
The re-creations of the era are artful, and the acting's strong. Seyfried and Sarsgaard have a lot to play, and attack the material fiercely and honestly."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
91%
|
The Spectacular Now (2013) |
"
Woodley is genuinely wonderful in it. And Teller's right behind her."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
68%
|
Elysium (2013) |
"
Damon has an awfully good nose for material; even when "Elysium" grows allegorically simplistic or familiar, the script avoids pounding cliche, and Blomkamp and his design and effects teams give us a plausibly harsh idea of things to come."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
47%
|
We're The Millers (2013) |
"
The crux of the humor depends on the Sudeikis and Aniston characters bickering in a way that spells l-o-v-e, but the screenplay spells it a-g-g-r-a-v-a-t-i-o-n instead."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 6, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
91%
|
Blue Jasmine (2013) |
"
Plenty of fine actresses have delighted in Allen's snappish comic rhythms, which the writer never really loses, even in drama. Or in drama borrowed from Tennessee Williams."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
63%
|
2 Guns (2013) |
"
He has talent, this director: "2 Guns" isn't necessarily my thing (the jokey sadism is a drag), but Kormakur lays out an action sequence with a swiftness and a coherence missing from many other pictures."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
92%
|
This Is Martin Bonner (2013) |
"
This Is Martin Bonner explores what it means to be a good person at a crossroads, and whom you might find there."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jul 31, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
69%
|
The Wolverine (2013) |
"
"The Wolverine" won't change anybody's mind about the character, or about what Jackman can do with it. It's simply a more focused scenario than usual, full of violence done up with a little more coherence and visceral impact than usual."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jul 25, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
98%
|
Blackfish (2013) |
"
The film may be depressing. But even with a terrible, watery musical score, it's also good."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jul 25, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
52%
|
The To Do List (2013) |
"
This is a welcome female-centric variation on a familiar theme, not the first to deal with a teenage girl's de-virginization project, but certainly a minority report in a field crowded with boys trying to Get Some ..."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jul 25, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
94%
|
Fruitvale Station (2013) |
"
Coogler could've settled for an enraging, full-throttle melodrama, designed to boil your blood from beginning to end. But "Fruitvale Station" is better, more heartbreaking, than that."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
42%
|
Red 2 (2013) |
"
The movie's adequate. That's not much."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
0/4
|
40%
|
Only God Forgives (2013) |
"
This is the worst, least, dumbest picture made by people of talent this year ..."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
87%
|
The Conjuring (2013) |
"
An "Amityville Horror" for a new century (and a far better movie than that 1979 hit), yet firmly rooted, without being slavish or self-conscious, in the visual language of 1970s filmmaking."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jul 16, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
99%
|
20 Feet From Stardom (2013) |
"
Just about everything in this movie is right. And anybody who gives a rip about unsung heroines of popular music and giving credit when credit's overdue had better come up with a good excuse not to see it."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
72%
|
Pacific Rim (2013) |
"
It's closer to the hammering "Transformers" aesthetic than expected. Yet the weirdness around the edges saves it from impersonality."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jul 10, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
75%
|
Despicable Me 2 (2013) |
"
Steve Carell's Slavic inflections as Gru do the trick, as before. Wiig's clever hesitations and comic timing help save the day."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jul 2, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
31%
|
The Lone Ranger (2013) |
"
How/why/wherefore did it turn out this way? The evidence suggests a combination of hubris, errant revisionism, a misguided and perverse degree of violence, and a script that never worked in the first place."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jul 2, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
87%
|
100 Bloody Acres (2013) |
"
It sounds appalling, but "100 Bloody Acres" has a spring in its step."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jul 2, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
81%
|
André Gregory: Before and After Dinner (2013) |
"
A fond documentary made by Gregory's wife, Cindy Kleine."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jul 2, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
65%
|
The Heat (2013) |
"
With so few women afforded the opportunity to steer the course of a movie - any movie, on screen or off - even a formulaic vehicle such as "The Heat" arrives as a surprise and a relief."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 27, 2013
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