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3.5/4
|
85%
|
Side Effects (2013) |
"
Soderbergh came, he saw, he conquered, and now he's moving on. "
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Feb 7, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
56 Up (2013) |
"
We are all older now, and this series proves it in a most deeply moving way."
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Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 31, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
36%
|
Stand Up Guys (2013) |
"
Sometimes it's all about the casting."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 31, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
79%
|
Quartet (2013) |
"
It has a good heart. I'll give it that. Maybe what it needs is more exotic marigolds."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 24, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
25%
|
Broken City (2013) |
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
B+
|
73%
|
A Late Quartet (2012) |
—
Detroit News
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
——
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The First Time (1969) |
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
34%
|
LUV (2013) |
"
Here is a film about African Americans that sidesteps all the usual, hopeful cliches and comments on how one failed generation raises another."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 17, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
96%
|
West of Memphis (2012) |
"
"West of Memphis" is the fourth film about one of the most heinous cases of wrongful conviction in American judicial history. Do we need a fourth film? Yes, I think we do."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 17, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
92%
|
Amour (2012) |
"
Old age isn't for sissies, and neither is this film."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 10, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
93%
|
Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
"
A slam-bang action picture."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jan 2, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
80%
|
The Impossible (2012) |
"
Here is a searing film of human tragedy."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Dec 20, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
38%
|
Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) |
"
Murray, who has a wider range than we sometimes realize, finds the human core of this FDR and presents it tenderly."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Dec 13, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
86%
|
The Matchmaker (2012) |
"
This is a sweet, bittersweet comedy, well-executed if perhaps a little heavy on anecdotage."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Dec 13, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
4%
|
Playing for Keeps (2012) |
"
A film that's pretty much from the assembly line."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Dec 7, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
54%
|
Citadel (2012) |
"
This is a basic story, simply and directly told by Irish writer-director Ciaran Foy."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Dec 6, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
40%
|
New Jerusalem (2012) |
"
An intense study of these two men and their barren work in a shabby store by the side of a highway."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Dec 6, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
88%
|
Starlet (2012) |
"
The film itself deserves praise for its portraits of these two women and the different worlds they inhabit."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Dec 6, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
95%
|
The Central Park Five (2012) |
"
Involves a detailed reconstruction of how the story broke, was developed and was dramatized by lurid tabloid headlines."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Dec 6, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
73%
|
Generation P (2012) |
"
Sort of a cross between "Mad Men" and an acid trip."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Dec 6, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
82%
|
Fat Kid Rules the World (2012) |
"
It's a lot better than it sounds like it has any right to be."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Nov 29, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
68%
|
Wuthering Heights (2012) |
"
Arnold has been successful in reimagining the story's archetypal emotions in the story, bringing it closer to its passionate elements."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Nov 29, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
76%
|
Killing Them Softly (2012) |
"
It seems as if I've been seeing versions of this story since forever."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Nov 29, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
——
|
Scrooge & Marley (2012) |
"
[Delivers] more or less exactly what you'd expect, given the material."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Nov 28, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
The Thief of Bagdad (1940) |
"
This 1940 movie is one of the great entertainments. It lifts up the heart."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Nov 26, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
78%
|
Tales of the Night (2012) |
"
It is so gentle and whimsical that one wonders if American children, accustomed to the whiz-bang action of most animation, will accept it."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Nov 21, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
11%
|
Red Dawn (2012) |
"
I think I'm beginning to understand why the Chinese were not reckoned to be a prime market for this film."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Nov 21, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
74%
|
Rise of the Guardians (2012) |
"
Peter Ramsey and his art team have created a crisp, colorful fantasy world, sharper-edged than many feature-length children's cartoons."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Nov 21, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
64%
|
Hitchcock (2012) |
"
Anthony Hopkins, superb actor although he is, would not seem to be an obvious choice to play Hitchcock, but I accepted him. His makeup job is transformative. "
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Nov 21, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
88%
|
Life of Pi (2012) |
"
Ang Lee's "Life of Pi" is a miraculous achievement of storytelling and a landmark of visual mastery."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Nov 21, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
48%
|
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012) |
"
I must admit if you're going to bring the series to a close, "Part 2" does it about as well as it can be done."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Nov 15, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
92%
|
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) |
"
"Silver Linings Playbook" is so good, it could almost be a terrific old classic. "
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Nov 15, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
68%
|
This Must Be The Place (2012) |
"
Although "This Must Be the Place" holds our attention, it's a little difficult to say where it's headed."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Nov 15, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
63%
|
Anna Karenina (2012) |
"
This is a sumptuous film - extravagantly staged and photographed, perhaps too much so for its own good."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Nov 15, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
95%
|
Chasing Ice (2012) |
"
The "green" teams looking into such energy sources as solar, wind and nuclear are often ridiculed. Watch "Chasing Ice" and see if you laugh."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Nov 15, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
96%
|
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God (2012) |
"
To someone who was raised and educated in the Catholic school system, as I was, a film like this inspires shock and outrage."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Nov 15, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
——
|
Older Children () |
"
The movie is perfectly watchable, professionally filmed and acted, and not particularly compelling."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Nov 8, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
37%
|
Nobody Walks (2012) |
"
What we have here is a household ripe with seduction, lust, betrayal and repression, all kept below the surface by increasingly strained good manners."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Nov 8, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
78%
|
The Bay (2012) |
"
Although there are some scary moments here, and a lot of gruesome ones, this isn't a horror film so much as a faux eco-documentary."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Nov 8, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
60%
|
Francine (2012) |
"
Melissa Leo plays her without inflection, giving us no instructions about what our opinion should be. It is a brave performance, an act of empathy with a sad woman. "
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Nov 8, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
89%
|
A Royal Affair (2012) |
"
As the power behind the throne once removed, Mikkelsen is well-cast as a strong leading man who is also convincing as an intellectual and reformer."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Nov 8, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
90%
|
Holy Motors (2012) |
"
Here is a film that is exasperating, frustrating, anarchic and in a constant state of renewal. It's not tame. "
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Nov 8, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
90%
|
Lincoln (2012) |
"
The hallmark of the man, performed so powerfully by Daniel Day-Lewis in "Lincoln," is calm self-confidence, patience and a willingness to play politics in a realistic way. "
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Nov 8, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
92%
|
Skyfall (2012) |
"
This is a full-blooded, joyous, intelligent celebration of a beloved cultural icon, with Daniel Craig taking full possession of a role he previously played unconvincingly."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Nov 8, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
——
|
Shun LI And The Poet (2013) |
"
There is not much happiness in the lives of these two people, but they have each other."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Nov 1, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
73%
|
The Loneliest Planet (2012) |
"
All of this grows tiresome."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Nov 1, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
98%
|
Brooklyn Castle (2012) |
"
Every player knows the finality when the other player sadly turns over his king, signaling surrender. We know it even better when we do it ourselves."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Nov 1, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
83%
|
The Flat (2012) |
"
A spellbinding documentary about family secrets ..."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Nov 1, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
100%
|
Wake in Fright (2012) |
"
It is powerful, genuinely shocking and rather amazing."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Nov 1, 2012
|
25%
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