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Drew Hunt

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Sailing a Sinking Sea (2015) EDIT “Fede Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues keep the plot twists coming, though as they accumulate the story begins to feel like a confection, succeeding not through any fresh idea but through the stubborn recombination of a few stale ones.” – Chicago Reader Aug 25, 2016 Full Review The Bronze (2015) 37% 1/4 EDIT “The prevailing attitude behind the film can be boiled down to a simplistic idea: the cruder, the better.” – Slant Magazine Mar 14, 2016 Full Review Gods of Egypt (2016) 15% 1/4 EDIT “Its virtues as throwback don't elide the foolhardly decision to imprint an ancient mythology on a contemporary superhero framework.” – Slant Magazine Feb 25, 2016 Full Review Regression (2015) 14% 1.5/4 EDIT “It spends a lot of time considering the fear of knowing, which may explain why Alejandro Amenbar didn't seem to know what kind of film he was making.” – Slant Magazine Feb 4, 2016 Full Review Shelter (2014) 48% 1/4 EDIT “The characters' marginalized social standing is less indicative of a real-life epidemic and more akin to window dressing.” – Slant Magazine Nov 9, 2015 Full Review The Incident (2014) 83% EDIT “This lacks an emotional entryway; Isaac Ezban, directing his own script, treats his characters like gadgetry, cogs in a soulless, mechanized narrative.” – Chicago Reader Oct 20, 2015 Full Review The Fool (2014) 93% 3/4 EDIT “It takes place entirely at night, and the dingy color palette, washed-out and intentionally drab, presents Russia as an almost alien landscape.” – Slant Magazine Sep 13, 2015 Full Review Age of Panic (2013) 100% EDIT “The improvisational story and frenzied performances match the chaotic footage; the film is exhausting, but the action is energizing.” – Chicago Reader Jun 15, 2015 Full Review The Pirogue (2012) 79% EDIT “Dry humor alleviates the feeling of helplessness, whereas the actors, most of them amateurs, authenticate the story's real-world implications.” – Chicago Reader Jun 11, 2015 Full Review Poltergeist (2015) 29% EDIT “Director Gil Kenan ruins the pacing with too many half-baked, awkwardly staged horror set pieces, but the cast acquit themselves well enough.” – Chicago Reader May 28, 2015 Full Review Tomorrowland (2015) 49% EDIT “An aggressively optimistic script admonishes the lazy and irresolute and urges humanity to end war and save the environment; the proselytizing burdens an already onerous plot.” – Chicago Reader May 28, 2015 Full Review She's Lost Control (2014) 74% EDIT “First-time writer-director Anja Marquardt paints a pointed, emotionally honest portrait of a woman detached from the public yet unable to avoid such typical life problems as a dysfunctional family and a straitened financial situation.” – Chicago Reader May 14, 2015 Full Review Soul Boys of the Western World (2014) 71% EDIT “This has the quality of an illustrated oral history, though the incessant nostalgia and revisionist history are exhausting.” – Chicago Reader May 14, 2015 Full Review Noble (2014) 82% EDIT “[Her] Dickensian childhood provides real intrigue, but writer-director Stephen Bradley portrays the grown-up Noble as a messianic figure, making her philanthropy seem like acts of hubris rather than selflessness.” – Chicago Reader May 7, 2015 Full Review White Cop (2014) EDIT “Despite the intriguing guerrilla quality, this is just a bunch of hipsters playing dress-up.” – Chicago Reader Apr 23, 2015 Full Review Misery Loves Comedy (2015) 35% 1/4 EDIT “Commingling industry shoptalk with introspective insights and wrangling testimonials, the film casts an incredibly wide net, but doesn't reveal much of anything.” – Slant Magazine Apr 18, 2015 Full Review It's Better to Jump (2013) 75% EDIT “There are some beautiful shots of the city, but this is little more than an expertly produced home movie.” – Chicago Reader Apr 16, 2015 Full Review The Road Within (2014) 45% 1/4 EDIT “The film's tired sentimentality aside, its general lack of empathy is most damning.” – Slant Magazine Apr 13, 2015 Full Review Get Hard (2015) 28% 1/4 EDIT “Somewhere amid the unbearable stereotypes that choke this sophomoric comedy is a potent blue-collar revenge fantasy about an arrogant white-collar crook getting his just comeuppance.” – Slant Magazine Mar 25, 2015 Full Review Buzzard (2014) 89% 4/4 EDIT “Like Potrykus, Burge shows great daring, his performance a high-wire act of ballistic anomie and genuine empathy; we may find Marty repugnant, but only because we fear ending up like him, a disillusioned hellion desperate for a way out.” – Chicago Reader Mar 12, 2015 Full Review Unfinished Business (2015) 10% EDIT “The role is a departure of sorts for Vaughn, his character more responsible than the goofballs he normally plays, but his frat-boy shtick has grown the worse for wear since the days of Dodgeball and Wedding Crashers.” – Chicago Reader Mar 5, 2015 Full Review Chappie (2015) 32% EDIT “The special effects are incredible (especially given the relatively small budget), but the flat digital cinematography renders even the most technically impressive action sequence visually stale.” – Chicago Reader Mar 5, 2015 Full Review Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015) 14% EDIT “Provided you find any of this funny, the anarchic spirit can be exhilarating, but don't waste too much energy on it.” – Chicago Reader Feb 26, 2015 Full Review Ejecta (2014) 40% 3/4 EDIT “The cogent character study nestled inside all the bombast remains crafty for its rare commingling of artful storytelling and genre nonsensicality.” – Slant Magazine Feb 23, 2015 Full Review Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People (2014) 63% EDIT “This ambitious and heartbreaking documentary tackles no less mammoth a subject than the African-American identity as it exists in photographic imagery.” – Chicago Reader Feb 20, 2015 Full Review
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