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‘A Serious Man’ Plays as Masterfully Fictionalized Autobiography For Joel,...
Rating: 4.0/5.0CHICAGO– “A Serious Man” isn’t the story of Joel and Ethan Coen’s lives. But you might not necessarily know it. While the brothers continue to turn their films into Hollywood gold, this...
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Gorgeous ‘Hugo’ Plays Like Cinematic Snow Globe
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo” is a deeply personal piece, a magical tale about imagination and the importance of film preservation presented with some of the most technical expertise...
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‘Men in Black III’ Deserves to Be Neuralyzed From Memory
Rating: 2.0/5.0CHICAGO– “Men in Black III” is such a soulless venture, a film made by committee that doesn’t display the touch of anyone with any remaining actual interest in the characters. In the...
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‘Blue Jasmine’ Puts Woody Allen Back on Top
Rating: 4.5/5.0CHICAGO– The auteur Woody Allen is one of the most prolific post-studio-system directors, averaging one film a year for close to 40 years. His meditations on life have become part of the...
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Expansive ‘Steve Jobs’ is a Marvel of a Movie
Rating: 5.0/5.0CHICAGO– You don’t need CGI, entire cities being turned to rubble, or an army of assembling Avengers to make a great movie. All you need is a good story to tell and a team of people...
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‘Miss Sloane’ Thrills Politically, But Drags Narratively
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– Nothing says the holiday season like a film about lobbying and politics. If you read that sarcastically, you’d be wrong. “Miss Sloane” offers a female spin for an otherwise male...
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Ethereal ‘The Shape of Water’ Forms Cinema Magic
Rating: 5.0/5.0CHICAGO– This breathtaking morality and love story, set in a backward age, takes all of its major themes – passion, tolerance, symbolism and thrills – to the highest level....
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‘The Post’ Illuminates the Skills of Meryl Streep
Rating: 4.0/5.0CHICAGO– For all the films Meryl Streep is privileged to make – which is remarkable considering the industry’s attitude toward older actresses – she has even admitted that the audience...
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