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EDIT “Director Ryan Sarnowski shows... respect for Hayden through the detailed documentation of Lawsonomy's history, merits, and flaws, as well as the little onscreen moments Hayden shares with the women who was his high school sweetheart.” – Chicago Reader Apr 20, 2020 Full Review Cerca de tu casa (2015) EDIT “Recalls Rent and Les Misérables in that the primary catalysts for the characters breaking into song are despair and displacement. But these songs, performed by a mix of professional and amateur vocalists, are less showy and also less memorable.” – Chicago Reader Apr 13, 2020 Full Review Django (2017) 57% EDIT “The film contains a number of fictionalized characters and scenarios that ring false... but the extended musical numbers by Reinhardt's Quintette du Hot Club de France are wonderful.” – Chicago Reader Apr 9, 2020 Full Review Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities (2017) 100% EDIT “Stunning archival photographs and footage supplement talking-head interviews with historians, scholars, HBCU alumni, and current HBCU students.” – Chicago Reader Apr 8, 2020 Full Review Help Me Make it Through the Night (2017) EDIT “José Ramón Chávez Delgado, making his feature directing debut, and screenwriter Claudia Sainte-Luce are unmerciful in exploring the mother's addiction, and actress Elena de Haro sells it.” – Chicago Reader Apr 8, 2020 Full Review Kékszakállú (2016) 93% EDIT “Produces some haunting imagery.” – Chicago Reader Mar 26, 2020 Full Review Silicone Soul (2018) EDIT “[Director Melody] Gilbert raises the right questions about sexism, modern loneliness, and the slow erosion of the uncanny valley, but without demonizing or even judging her subjects.” – Chicago Reader Mar 25, 2020 Full Review Finding Your Feet (2017) 70% EDIT “The cast is entertaining, if a tad performative, and some shockingly funny moments distract from an otherwise predictable plot.” – Chicago Reader Mar 23, 2020 Full Review Moynihan (2018) 89% EDIT “It is unfortunate, then, that codirectors Joseph Dorman and Toby Perl Freilich deliver a staid yet informative rundown of Moynihan's political maneuvers.” – Chicago Reader Mar 11, 2020 Full Review Desolation Center (2018) 100% EDIT “Swezey's film confirms that his scene's flame is still burning.” – Chicago Reader Oct 24, 2019 Full Review End of the Century (2019) 92% EDIT “Castro excels in showing how ostensibly small discoveries, like a gutting line in a book or a song that gives perfect shape to a moment, can be bright markers in life, signifying a beginning, a middle, or an end.” – Chicago Reader Oct 18, 2019 Full Review Fantastic Fungi (2019) 100% EDIT “Chances are you'll never look at a mushroom in the same way again.” – Chicago Reader Oct 18, 2019 Full Review That Pärt Feeling: The Universe of Arvo Pärt (2019) EDIT “Rather than ticking the boxes of Pärt's biography or talking to him at length about his process, Hegemen gives his audience plenty of opportunities to experience the feeling referenced in the doc's title.” – Chicago Reader Oct 18, 2019 Full Review Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) 100% EDIT “The movie plays like a concerto.” – Chicago Reader Oct 11, 2019 Full Review The Woman Who Loves Giraffes (2018) 100% EDIT “Innis Dagg returns to the site of her innovative research, and the accompaniment of vivid color photographs and 16-millimeter footage the scientist herself took in the late '50s render the duality of the experience all the more bewitching.” – Chicago Reader Oct 11, 2019 Full Review The Cat Rescuers (2018) 92% EDIT “Cat people tend to be unfairly maligned, but in this documentary, they're heroes.” – Chicago Reader Sep 27, 2019 Full Review The Goldfinch (2019) 24% EDIT “A cool sterility lingers beneath every cue meant to tug at our insides.” – Chicago Reader Sep 27, 2019 Full Review It: Chapter Two (2019) 62% EDIT “Trimming the adults' often soppy individual narratives to focus on their more interesting dynamic as a group might have mitigated some of the numbness that sets in from predictability.” – Chicago Reader Sep 22, 2019 Full Review Jay Myself (2018) 88% EDIT “In the end, the viewer might find herself both feeling the loss at the center of Maisel and Wilkes's letting-go process and craving a similar grotto of her own.” – Chicago Reader Sep 22, 2019 Full Review Hustlers (2019) 88% 3/4 EDIT “Hustlers, it must be said, is hustle incarnate.” – Chicago Reader Sep 12, 2019 Full Review American Heretics: The Politics of the Gospel (2019) 100% EDIT “A documentary that calmly disassembles the fallacies of the religious right” – Chicago Reader Sep 5, 2019 Full Review Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019) 89% EDIT “I too admire Colaizzo's effort, but in the end found myself ruminating on why I was expected to cheer at the finish line.” – Chicago Reader Aug 30, 2019 Full Review After the Wedding (2019) 45% 2/4 EDIT “The movie's biggest issue blooms from its core: it doesn't seem to know what kind of movie it wants to be.” – Chicago Reader Aug 23, 2019 Full Review The Amazing Johnathan Documentary (2019) 80% EDIT “It's not until Berman dives deeper, questioning his motivations to pursue the subject matter and testing the ethical limits of narrative nonfiction, that his doc makes a persuasive case for existing.” – Chicago Reader Aug 16, 2019 Full Review If the Dancer Dances (2018) 93% EDIT “The film may not compare to seeing RainForest in its purest form, live and sans context, but no matter: dance nerds and visual art obsessives will find much to appreciate.” – Chicago Reader Aug 16, 2019 Full Review
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