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God Bless America | Chicago Reader | J. R. Jones | [It] turns in on its own morality like a Mbius strip, endorsing kindness by practicing slaughter, and pulls us along for the ride. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1,217 |
Hereditary | Chicago Reader | Andrea Gronvall | Toni Collette is flawless. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1,217 |
It Follows | Chicago Reader | Ben Sachs | Follows is an effective pastiche but a studied one; by the end, even its ambiguities feel overdetermined. | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | false | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1,217 |
Kill List | Chicago Reader | J. R. Jones | Wheatly aims for something like moral complexity by having one of the killers believe in God and the other aspire to be a good husband and father, but once the graphic violence starts, it upstages everything else. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1,217 |
Leave No Trace | Chicago Reader | J. R. Jones | Leave No Trace might be described in social terms as a film about homelessness, but it never loses sight of the fact that what makes a home is the privacy people need to connect with each other. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1,217 |
A New Leaf | Chicago Reader | Jonathan Rosenbaum | This is painful comedy, to be sure, but there's a lot of soul and spirit behind it. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1,217 |
O Som ao Redor (Neighbouring Sounds) | Chicago Reader | J. R. Jones | A Brazilian drama with a powerful and enveloping sense of place ... | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1,217 |
The Kid with a Bike | Chicago Reader | Ben Sachs | Makes a powerful statement about the plight of unwanted children. But it also incorporates elements of melodrama, film noir, and even the fairy tale that engage our empathy and confirm the Dardennes' great compassion. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1,217 |
Avengers: Age of Ultron | Chicago Sun-Times | Richard Roeper | "Avengers: Age of Ultron" is a sometimes daffy, occasionally baffling, surprisingly touching and even romantic adventure with one kinetic thrill after another. It earns a place of high ranking in the Marvel Universe. | 4.5/10 | 10 | 4.5 | 10 | false | 7 | 19 | 2 | 1,218 |
Sully | Chicago Sun-Times | Richard Roeper | "One of the best movies of 2016." | 4.5/10 | 10 | 4.5 | 10 | false | 7 | 19 | 2 | 1,218 |
Whiteout | Chicago Sun-Times | Richard Roeper | Even in a whiteout, you can see the plot twists coming. | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | false | 2 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
Man in the Chair | Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert | The movie works so hard at juggling its clichs that it fails to generate interest in its story. | 1.5/5 | 5 | 1.5 | 5 | false | 1 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
Aloft | Chicago Sun-Times | Richard Roeper | Some movies practically dare you to give up. "Aloft" is a beautifully shot, frustratingly vague and deeply ponderous mystery/spiritual journey about terminally unhappy souls. | 1.5/5 | 5 | 1.5 | 5 | false | 1 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
The Art Of The Steal | Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert | What is finally clear: It doesn't matter a damn what your will says if you have $25 billion, and politicians and the establishment want it. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
Bigger, Stronger, Faster* | Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert | This movie is remarkable in that it seems to be interested only in facts. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
The Children of Huang Shi | Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert | Tells an engrossing story of a remarkable man, but nevertheless it's underwhelming. | 2.5/5 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | false | 3 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
Cowboys & Aliens | Chicago Sun-Times | Richard Roeper | The Searchers meet Independence Day. Great fun. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus | Chicago Sun-Times | Richard Roeper | "Da Sweet Blood of Jesus" is a bold but wildly uneven, bloody mess of a film, sunk in large part by the subpar performances by nearly every major character in nearly every major role. | 1.5/5 | 5 | 1.5 | 5 | false | 1 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
Dracula A.D. 1972 | Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert | This isn't a terrific rationale for another horror flick but, given Miss Beacham's ability to heave, and her bosom to heave with, it will have to do. | 1/5 | 5 | 1 | 5 | false | 0 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
Due Date | Chicago Sun-Times | Richard Roeper | Just enough laughs to merit a recommendation. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
Elysium | Chicago Sun-Times | Richard Roeper | Despite a crazy-bad performance from a two-time Oscar winner, 'Elysium' is great entertainment. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 6 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
Ex Machina | Chicago Sun-Times | Richard Roeper | The Swedish actress Alicia Vikander ("The Fifth Estate") infuses Ava with the just the right mixture of iciness, vulnerability and mystery. It's a star-making performance. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool | Chicago Sun-Times | Richard Roeper | Director McGuigan and screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh paint Film Stars Don't Die ... in unapologetically sentimental tones. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
He's Just Not That Into You | Chicago Sun-Times | Richard Roeper | Like that's a problem for Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Connelly and the rest of these people. | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | false | 2 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People | Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert | How to Lose Friends & Alienate People is possibly the best movie that could be made about Toby Young that isn't rated NC-17. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story | Chicago Sun-Times | Richard Roeper | These sobering moments aside, the great bulk of "I Am Big Bird" is a Sunny Day, Sweepin' the Clouds Away, brightly colored tribute to the man and his art. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
Love & Mercy | Chicago Sun-Times | Richard Roeper | After seeing "Love & Mercy," you'll find it nearly impossible to resist the urge to download (or re-listen to) a dozen Beach Boys classics. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
McFarland USA | Chicago Sun-Times | Richard Roeper | Yes, "McFarland USA" has the obligatory coda where we found out how everything played out for the coach and the key members of that 1987 team. You should stick around for that. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
Miss Bala | Chicago Sun-Times | Richard Roeper | Anyone thinking about plunking down the bucks to check out "Miss Bala" this weekend: You DEFINITELY deserve better than this. | 1.5/5 | 5 | 1.5 | 5 | false | 1 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
Morning Glory | Chicago Sun-Times | Richard Roeper | Has moments of sparkle, but the screenplay disappoints and the luminous Rachel McAdams overdoes it. | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | false | 2 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
Only God Forgives | Chicago Sun-Times | Richard Roeper | This is one of the most shocking and one of the best movies of the year. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
Prisoners | Chicago Sun-Times | Richard Roeper | One of the most intense thrillers in recent years. Best performance of Hugh Jackman's career. | 4.5/5 | 5 | 4.5 | 5 | false | 7 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
Religulous | Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert | This movie is about Bill Maher's opinion of religion. He's very smart, quick and funny, and I found the movie entertaining, although sometimes he's a little mean to his targets. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
Road Hard | Chicago Sun-Times | Richard Roeper | The truth is, I found "Road Hard" to be a low-key gem, a consistently funny albeit conventional story about a guy who's almost always the funniest person in the room, and is almost always his own worst enemy. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired | Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert | She has achieved extraordinary access to the other still-living players in the case, and they all seem to be in agreement: Polanski is correct in saying the judge played with him as a cat might play with a mouse. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
Seventh Son | Chicago Sun-Times | Richard Roeper | "Seventh Son" moves at a fairly quick pace and has a sense of humor about itself. That doesn't mean it's thrilling, or funny. Just that it's a quickly forgotten pile of junk. | 1.5/5 | 5 | 1.5 | 5 | false | 1 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
Spy | Chicago Sun-Times | Richard Roeper | What does work, in every scene, is Melissa McCarthy's performance. She's as funny and as winning as anyone in the movies these days. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
Taken 3 | Chicago Sun-Times | Richard Roeper | I'll tell you what got "Taken." A hundred and twelve minutes of my life got "Taken." | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | false | 2 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
The Artist | Chicago Sun-Times | Richard Roeper | Yes, it's virtually silent, it's black-and-white, and you might not know the leads. But if you don't take a chance on this film, we can't be friends any more. | 5/5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | false | 8 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
The Benefactor | Chicago Sun-Times | Richard Roeper | Gere delivers a performance so self-consciously ACTORISH it often takes us right out of the film. | 2.5/5 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | false | 3 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
The DUFF | Chicago Sun-Times | Richard Roeper | This is a well-intentioned and sometimes quite sharp high school movie that falls just short of the mark due to a few way-off-the-mark scenes and too much heavy-handed preaching. | 2.5/5 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | false | 3 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
The Rewrite | Chicago Sun-Times | Richard Roeper | A full two decades after "Four Weddings and a Funeral," Hugh Grant still does that stammering, understated, witty and dashing thing as well as anyone in the business. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
The Voices | Chicago Sun-Times | Richard Roeper | A deeply warped, darkly funny and thoroughly depraved horror comedy. Ryan Reynolds gives one of his best performances. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 6 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
Two Lovers | Chicago Sun-Times | Richard Roeper | Ranks with the best work Joaquin Phoenix has ever done. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 6 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
Unfinished Business | Chicago Sun-Times | Richard Roeper | Vince Vaughn, continuing his decade-long streak of mediocre comedies plays another variation on his fast-talking, slightly oafish but goodhearted regular guy. | 1.5/5 | 5 | 1.5 | 5 | false | 1 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
Van Helsing | Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert | Silly and spectacular, and fun. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
While We're Young | Chicago Sun-Times | Richard Roeper | For about an hour, "While We're Young" was one of the most exhilarating times I've had at the movies in many a month. It played like razor-sharp Woody Allen in his prime. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,219 |
The Hunting Party | Chicago Sun-Times | Nell Minow | As they say, the difference between movies and real life is that real life does not have to make sense. And that is what it takes to make crazy times real to us in a way that the truth cannot convey. | B+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 14 | 18 | 1 | 1,220 |
The Business of Being Born | Chicago Sun-Times | Nell Minow | "The Business of Being Born" is messy and amateurish but heartfelt and compelling. | B | long_letter | null | null | false | 13 | 18 | 1 | 1,220 |
Delgo | Chicago Sun-Times | Nell Minow | The look has impressive flair and attention to detail. Its biggest weakness is too many characters, too many plot diversions, and too much violence for very young children. | C | long_letter | null | null | false | 10 | 18 | 1 | 1,220 |
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed | Chicago Sun-Times | Nell Minow | The movie itself is an example of design by faith and emotion rather than intelligence, defined as rationality grounded in proof. | D | long_letter | null | null | false | 7 | 18 | 1 | 1,220 |
First Sunday | Chicago Sun-Times | Nell Minow | It has the slapstick of a The Three Stooges short without the comic timing, the characters of "Hot Ghetto Mess" without the irony, and the stereotypes of Amos 'n' Andy without the wit. | C | long_letter | null | null | false | 10 | 18 | 1 | 1,220 |
Fly Me to the Moon | Chicago Sun-Times | Nell Minow | If they can put a man on the moon, why can't they tell a better story about sending some flies along for the ride? | C | long_letter | null | null | false | 10 | 18 | 1 | 1,220 |
Gnomeo and Juliet | Chicago Sun-Times | Nell Minow | What makes the film most endearing is its unabashed eccentricity. | B+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 14 | 18 | 1 | 1,220 |
The Hottie and the Nottie | Chicago Sun-Times | Nell Minow | This pea-brained vanity production does not have the energy to remember from one scene to the next what it is about or why it is on screen. It is attention-deficit film-making. | D | long_letter | null | null | false | 7 | 18 | 1 | 1,220 |
Ira and Abby | Chicago Sun-Times | Nell Minow | The movie benefits from an exceptionally strong line-up of supporting characters beautifully played by a top-notch cast. | B | long_letter | null | null | false | 13 | 18 | 1 | 1,220 |
Nim's Island | Chicago Sun-Times | Nell Minow | An eye-filling and heart-warming story | B+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 14 | 18 | 1 | 1,220 |
P.S. I Love You | Chicago Sun-Times | Nell Minow | Romantic comedies...need twinkle. Her character wears twinkly dresses and does twinkly things, but Swank delivers her lines as though she is still slamming into that heavy bag. | C | long_letter | null | null | false | 10 | 18 | 1 | 1,220 |
Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D | Chicago Sun-Times | Nell Minow | The gadgets are a lot of fun, including a robot dog with more functions than a Swiss Army Knife, hilariously voiced by Ricky Gervais. | B- | long_letter | null | null | false | 12 | 18 | 1 | 1,220 |
Sydney White | Chicago Sun-Times | Nell Minow | Bynes is captivating despite a role that does not give her much to do but display tomboyish good spirit behind some really unfortunate hair and make-up. | B- | long_letter | null | null | false | 12 | 18 | 1 | 1,220 |
Turbo | Chicago Sun-Times | Nell Minow | Great voice talent in a story that puts the "go" in escargot. | B+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 14 | 18 | 1 | 1,220 |
Under the Same Moon | Chicago Sun-Times | Nell Minow | The magical glow makes it easier to address some heart-rending themes that might be too disturbing if told in a more straightforward manner. | B | long_letter | null | null | false | 13 | 18 | 1 | 1,220 |
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins | Chicago Sun-Times | Nell Minow | There are a lot of outrageous, raunchy, and insulting comments from caricatured family members, but, surprisingly, considering that most of them are played by stand-up comics, very few actual jokes. | C | long_letter | null | null | false | 10 | 18 | 1 | 1,220 |
Young@Heart | Chicago Sun-Times | Nell Minow | It shows that no one has more reason to stick it to The Man with rock music than people who are most defiantly not going gently into that good night. | B+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 14 | 18 | 1 | 1,220 |
Blood: The Last Vampire | Chicago Tribune | Michael Ordoña | Often-unwatchably dim. | 1/5 | 5 | 1 | 5 | false | 0 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
Pocahontas | Chicago Tribune | Gene Siskel | The film may take you by surprise with its quick ending, running only 76 minutes before the credits roll. I wanted more both times I saw it. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 25 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
Imagine That | Chicago Tribune | Gary Goldstein | Fortunately, the picture's not-so-secret weapon, star Eddie Murphy, gives this uneven effort a reason for being. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 20 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
The Last House on the Left | Chicago Tribune | Michael Phillips | This film...is what it is: a stark story of bloodthirstiness quenched, first by the obvious antagonists, then by sympathetic, civilized characters who avenge the atrocities that have come before. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 20 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
Weather Girl | Chicago Tribune | Glenn Whipp | Weather Girl coasts on the charms of its ensemble, which includes brief, funny turns from Jane Lynch and Jon Cryer. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 20 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
X Games 3D: The Movie | Chicago Tribune | Robert Abele | Although the competitions are undoubtedly impressive achievements in the daredevil arts, as a record of what these mentally tough participants do, it too often feels like a warmed-over energy drink. | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | false | 10 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
Loren Cass | Chicago Tribune | Gary Goldstein | It's tedious, dispiriting stuff. | 1.5/5 | 5 | 1.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
Baghead | Chicago Tribune | Michael Ordoña | Delightfully unpredictable. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 30 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas) | Chicago Tribune | Sheri Linden | Translating this dark fable to the screen, Herman for the most part maintains the book's oversimplification of historical events, but he nonetheless crafts an affecting drama that refuses to soft-pedal its harrowing conclusion. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 30 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
Brick Lane | Chicago Tribune | Jan Stuart | [A] glossy but overly efficient drama that, like Nazneen's husband, is ultimately too ineffectual to make much of a dent. | 2.5/5 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | false | 15 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
Bright Star | Chicago Tribune | Michael Phillips | In its way Campion's film is a thing of beauty, but its characters' inner lives must be taken on faith. | 2.5/5 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | false | 15 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
Brothers at War | Chicago Tribune | Michael Phillips | "Brothers at War" is designed (and limited) as a corrective to what its maker sees as the anti-war harangues preceding it. Director and Decatur, Ill., native Jake Rademacher has a strong personal story to relay. You wish the film, executive-produced by Ga | 2.5/5 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | false | 15 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
Cedar Rapids | Chicago Tribune | Michael Phillips | Modest in every way, the screenplay by Phil Johnston is enjoyable in the telling even when the details smack of contrivance. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 20 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
Charlie St. Cloud | Chicago Tribune | S. James Snyder | With its assurances that everything happens for a reason and everything will be alright, a potentially haunting story becomes a philosophical one-way street. | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | false | 10 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
The Client | Chicago Tribune | Gene Siskel | You know, there are more exciting trials on free TV. | 1.5/5 | 5 | 1.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
Crossing Over | Chicago Tribune | Michael Phillips | The characters don't relate; they trade expedient expository nuggets, when they're not speechifying. A surfeit of coincidence spoils our empathy. And when a character—any character—says "You doubt the veracity of my heart," you have to doubt the | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | false | 10 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
Dance Flick | Chicago Tribune | Glenn Whipp | This send-up, created in large part by new-generation family members Damon Jr., Craig and Damien Dante Wayans, possesses a more nimble comic footing. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 20 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
Disgrace | Chicago Tribune | Gary Goldstein | Unfortunately, though Malkovich remains a compelling and cerebral screen presence, he comes off as too innately detached and prickly to elicit much empathy (not that his character is asking for it, mind you). | 2.5/5 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | false | 15 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
Banlieue 13 - Ultimatum (District 13: Ultimatum) | Chicago Tribune | Robert Abele | It amounts to a raucous and colorfully junky helping of seconds. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 20 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
Four Lions | Chicago Tribune | Michael Phillips | I think it's appalling in all the right ways. While its lingering aftertaste of ashes in the mouth is unmistakable, I'd argue that the subject warrants it. | 5/5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | false | 40 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
Gentlemen Broncos | Chicago Tribune | Gary Goldstein | Satire aside, what the oddball folks here never feel is real, despite the filmmakers' claims of autobiographical parallels. | 1/5 | 5 | 1 | 5 | false | 0 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
Grown Ups | Chicago Tribune | S. James Snyder | Grown Ups betrays everything sweet, sincere and low-key that actuality makes it special. | 2.5/5 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | false | 15 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
I Hate Valentine's Day | Chicago Tribune | Robert Abele | All I Hate Valentine's Day adds up to is an awkward, ritualized date between moviegoer and a still-learning triple hyphenate. | 1.5/5 | 5 | 1.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
Irene in Time | Chicago Tribune | Sheri Linden | Like its central character, Henry Jaglom's 16th feature is gangly and graceful, awkward and tender, a jumble of astute observation and clunkily heightened reality. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 20 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
Jonah Hex | Chicago Tribune | S. James Snyder | With a total running time that barely hits 80 minutes, it's hard to believe they even paid [John] Malkovich and [Megan] Fox to show up. | 1.5/5 | 5 | 1.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
Kings of the Evening | Chicago Tribune | Maureen M. Hart | A sweet tale well suited to the holiday season. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 20 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
Last Days | Chicago Tribune | Michael Wilmington | Van Sant uses Cobain's image for a portrait of physical and moral disintegration, but he also exhilarates us with his mastery of image and sound. | 3.4/5 | 5 | 3.4 | 5 | false | 24 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
Lymelife | Chicago Tribune | Michael Ordoña | Despite the familiar themes, the movie maintains its originality through its specificity. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 20 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
Our Idiot Brother | Chicago Tribune | Alexis Loinaz | Rudd brings color and dimension to a borderline-simpleton schlub who could have easily become a one-note clich. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 25 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
Play The Game | Chicago Tribune | Robert Abele | Veering between syrupy sweet and awkwardly dirty, Play the Game is a woefully scoreless exercise. | 1/5 | 5 | 1 | 5 | false | 0 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
Race to Witch Mountain | Chicago Tribune | Michael Phillips | ...while "Race to Witch Mountain" rarely rises above the functional, either as storytelling or as visual kinetics, it moves like it means it and keeps Johnson front and center, either fuming or sputtering. | 2.5/5 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | false | 15 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
Rudo y Cursi | Chicago Tribune | Robert Abele | As Cuarón's enjoyable film about brotherhood and the beautiful game zestfully points out, a block and a save are two sides of the same play. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 30 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
Sex Drive | Chicago Tribune | Tasha Robinson | Sean Anders' derivative gross-out movie Sex Drive is easier to take if you accept that the answer to every baffling plot question is "because it's a teen sex comedy." | 1.5/5 | 5 | 1.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
Snow Flower And The Secret Fan | Chicago Tribune | Alexis Loinaz | Wang ... needlessly pads the movie with heart-tugging gimmicks and canned melodrama that undercuts its raw impact. | 2.5/5 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | false | 15 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
Spread | Chicago Tribune | Glenn Whipp | Its formulaic, unconvincing story adds little to the conversation about slack ambition, mutual exploitation and evolving social mores. | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | false | 10 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
Step Up 2 the Streets | Chicago Tribune | Michael Phillips | Providing you're not hip-hop- or cliche-averse, see Step Up 2 the Streets with the right expectations and you'll be pleasantly surprised. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 20 | 41 | 10 | 1,221 |
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