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Gemma Arterton Displays Luminosity as ‘Tamara Drewe’
Rating: 3.5/5.0 CHICAGO – There are some movies that are gut level great because of plot, atmosphere and pacing, and then there are movies like “Tamara Drewe,” which rely on the elusive star power of...
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Matt Damon is Fighting Mad in Tense ‘Jason Bourne’
Rating: 4.0/5.0 CHICAGO – To come back to a character that everyone thought he had left behind, Matt Damon needed the right creative team. He got it again in co-writer (with Christopher Rouse) and...
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Matthew McConaughey is All That Glitters in ‘Gold’
Rating: 3.0/5.0 CHICAGO – The relish that Matthew McConaughey displays in creating his latest character in “Gold,” a Willy Loman-type mining exec who is looking for his biggest score, is most of the...
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American Legal System is Put on Trial in ‘Crown Heights’
Rating: 4.0/5.0 CHICAGO – There is no justice for the poor. That should be carved in stone on courthouses beside all the platitudes of American “equality” and “law.” In an eye-opening narrative film...
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Aaron Sorkin’s Directorial Debut in ‘Molly’s Game’
Rating: 3.5/5.0 CHICAGO – High stakes poker are for folks who prefer to get their rush of adrenalin from the turn of a card rather than other life risks. The positives, the negatives and everything in...
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‘Hostiles’ with Christian Bale is a Big Bad Bore
Rating: 2.0/5.0 CHICAGO – “Hostiles” is an exercise in prestige western boredom. It’s competently made, but its as lifeless as a scalped corpse on the prairie. It’s long on pretty western locales and...
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‘Vice’ Proves It’s Okay to Laugh at Dick Cheney
Rating: 4.0/5.0 CHICAGO – “Vice” is an occasionally very funny attempt to demystify the life and legacy of former Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney. Using some of the same gimmicks and...
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‘The Kitchen’ is Once Upon a Time in New York City
Rating: 3.5/5.0 CHICAGO – It’s the ladies turn to harken back to the badass 1970s, more precisely 1977 in Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of New York City. In an adaptation of a DC Vertigo comic series,...
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