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Moving on ‘Up’: Disney, Pixar Score Another Masterpiece in 3-D
Rating: 4.5/5.0CHICAGO– There is an art to music. There is an art to writing a story and an art to telling that story. There is art in a great drawing, a great painting and a great photograph. There is...
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Heath Ledger Still Lives in ‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– Bogart, James Dean and Heath Ledger are not dead, they’re just stuck in the Netflix queue. And Ledger, with a little help from some friends, gets one more theatrical release in...
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Bless Us Father, For We Bear Witness to ‘Priest’
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– The cure for the Recovering Catholic may be obtained in the new film “Priest.” Both symbolic and kick-ass, Priest has a parallel universe that includes the ubiquitous vampire,...
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Ewan McGregor Needs More Seasoning in 'Beginners'
Rating: 3.0/5.0CHICAGO– When the matriarch of a family dies, the void can create dynamic shifts or imbalance for those left behind. Pair that turmoil with the announcement that a surviving father is...
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David Fincher’s Stunning ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’
Rating: 5.0/5.0CHICAGO– David Fincher’s “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” comes with waves of expectations from fans of the Stieg Larsson books, the Swedish original films, the director’s previous...
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Imagine What Could Have Been for ‘Danny Collins’
Rating: 2.0/5.0CHICAGO– “Danny Collins” is a shoulda-woulda-coulda film. It was inspired by the true story of a John Lennon letter acquired by a musician 40 years after he was suppose to to have...
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Charles Dickens is ‘The Man Who Invented Christmas’
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– The story of Ebenezer Scrooge, as told in Charles Dicken’s classic “A Christmas Carol,” seems to be the one constant that survives the commercialization of the holiday season....
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‘All the Money in the World’ Has a Soft Landing
Rating: 3.0/5.0CHICAGO– A bitter and old rich man won’t take responsibility for the co-opting of something he is directly connected to. Is this the Trump administration or “All the Money in the World”?...
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