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Like a Bad ‘Law & Order,’ ‘Righteous Kill’ With Al Pacino, Robert De Niro...
Rating: 2.0/5.0CHICAGO– Last fall, Francis Ford Coppola made the comment that Al Pacino and Robert De Niro (along with Jack Nicholson) had lost their ambition. Coppola essentially said they have been...
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David S. Goyer’s ‘The Unborn’ is Unoriginal, Uninspiring Mess
Rating: 1.0/5.0CHICAGO– Odette Yustman stars in David S. Goyer’s “The Unborn,” a poorly conceived and produced horror movie that could have just as easily been called “The Un-scary,” “The Uninspiring,”...
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Zack Snyder Turns ‘Watchmen’ Into Loud, Disjointed, Brutal Mess
Rating: 2.0/5.0CHICAGO– For years, fans of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s masterful and influential “Watchmen” have been waiting for a filmmaker willing to faithfully and slavishly adapt their favorite...
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Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton Are Redemptive in ‘Faster’
Rating: 4.0/5.0CHICAGO– The Action Film is getting a bit creaky, relying more on computer generated eye candy than character or plot. It is refreshing to experience a film like “Faster,” featuring...
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‘Elektra Luxx’ Offers Middling Showcase For Carla Gugino
Rating: 2.0/5.0CHICAGO– Sebastian Gutierrez is the sort of filmmaker who thrives best on the festival circuit. His work is just quirky and distinctive enough to garner overenthusiastic praise from...
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‘Sucker Punch’ Has Dazzling Imagery, Comic Book Wham-Bam
Rating: 4.5/5.0CHICAGO– It’s a pleasure to see the comic book film done right, especially with the visionary guidance of director Zach Snyder (”300”). “Sucker Punch” is an amazing treat, a feast of eye...
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Nature is Abused By Jim Carrey in ‘Mr Popper’s Penguins’
Rating: 1.5/5.0CHICAGO– Pity the poor penguin making pictures. Their wings cannot fly, they have no script approval or agents, just a trainer bribing them with food to hit the mark. Their presence,...
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Terribly Scripted ‘San Andreas’ With Dwayne Johnson a Heartless Special...
Rating: 2.5/5.0CHICAGO– When the story is as weak as the film’s fault lines and the character development never develops, the problem with blowing $100 million mostly on special effects is all you’re...
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‘San Andreas’ Loads Its Story with Too Many Faults
Rating: 3.0/5.0CHICAGO– The best way, perhaps the only way, to enjoy the disaster movie “San Andreas” is to check your brain at the door, or better yet leave it at home for safekeeping. Bringing new...
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‘The Space Between Us’ Falls Into a Black Hole & Dies
Rating: 1.0/5.0CHICAGO– You know you’re in trouble when the opening scene of a film inspires forehead slapping levels of incredulity. And that’s just the beginning of what I felt while watching “The...
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