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Guy Pearce Delves Into Corruption in Riveting 'Animal Kingdom'
Rating: 4.0/5.0CHICAGO– The thin line between anarchy and social peace is shriveling into a microscopic blur as sentencing and incarceration become increasingly less effective as a deterrent. The human...
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Darkly Comic Jason Segel in ‘The Five-Year Engagement’
Rating: 4.0/5.0CHICAGO– There are some major laughs in “The Five-Year Engagement,” good old fashion you-can’t-breathe laughs. But it is also dark and serious at times, and makes some surprising...
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Mia Wasikowska Finds Trippy Mystery in ‘Stoker’
Rating: 4.0/5.0CHICAGO– There is cause and effect in life, and there are times when random acts of circumstance rinses it all away. Those emotions are realized in the strange yet compelling composition...
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‘Magic in the Moonlight’ is Woody Allen By the Book
Rating: 3.0/5.0CHICAGO– After last year’s powerful “Blue Jasmine,” writer/director Woody Allen’s trajectory seemed destined toward another film masterpiece, but “Magic in the Moonlight” isn’t it. Colin...
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Funny ‘The Disaster Artist’ Takes Us Back to ‘The Room’
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– “The Room” is a post-millennial cult movie that plays the midnight and college movie circuit, entertaining audiences with its sheer badness. Its story is told in the “The...
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Melissa McCarthy is the Charming ‘Life of the Party’
Rating: 4.0/5.0CHICAGO– Melissa McCarthy is a comedic force to be reckoned with, able to wring laughs improbably out of the stingiest of material. She always manages to find the funny, which helps...
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‘Poms’ Stumbles and Fumbles Through a Stale, Familiar Routine
Rating: 1.0/5.0CHICAGO– There is an undeniable amount of skill and talent that goes into cheerleading. I happen to be rhythmically challenged so I am in awe of anyone, regardless of age, who can keep a...
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