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Elizabeth Banks Teeters With the ‘Man on a Ledge’
Rating: 3.0/5.0CHICAGO– New York City. Mid-day. A man steps outside the window on the edge of the Roosevelt Hotel. Is he jumping? That’s the question that street level onlookers and moviegoers want...
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Clever Cast Can’t Quite Save Crazy ‘Pain & Gain’
Rating: 3.0/5.0CHICAGO– Michael Bay’s “Pain & Gain” tells such a ridiculous story that it has to be true. Based on the infamous case of the Sun Gym Gang, a trio of bodybuilders who committed some...
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Alfonso Cuaron’s ‘Gravity’ Rekindles Wonder of Cinema
Rating: 5.0/5.0CHICAGO– There used to be a stronger sense that films could take us someplace new. From the days of audience members screaming at the train coming at the camera because they didn’t...
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‘Gravity’ is a Visionary Expansion on Our Humanity
Rating: 4.5/5.0CHICAGO– Space looks like a vast, dark ocean in the new film “Gravity,” with the sparkling blue orb of our planet Earth beckoning the voyagers on that ocean homeward. Co-writer/director...
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Two Stories Clash in Uneven ‘Rules Don’t Apply’
Rating: 3.0/5.0CHICAGO– Movie icon Warren Beatty had wanted to make a film about 20th Century billionaire Howard Hughes for close to 40 years. On the heels of Martin Scorsese’s “The Aviator,” Beatty...
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M is for the Many Things ‘mother!’ Gave Me
Rating: 4.5/5.0CHICAGO– In a film that is unsettlingly and regally composed with deep purpose and symbolism, “mother!” fulfills the nature of what it proposes to communicate within layers of...
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HollywoodChicago.com ESP, En Español: ‘American Assassin,’ ‘Brad’s Status’ y...
CHICAGO– Cada semana, HollywoodChicago.com le traerá las criticas de las películas que hemos visto y que están saliendo esa semana, pero en español. HollywoodChicago.com ESP no sólo representa...
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Now I’m Found! On-Air Review of ‘The Lost Daughter’
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on December 30th, 2021, reviewing the directorial debut...
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