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‘The Dark Knight’ Bestows Role of a Lifetime For Heath Ledger, Epic...
Rating: 5.0/5.0(rarely perfect)CHICAGO– With only three short words comprising the film’s enigmatic title, “The Dark Knight” also boasts three epic claims to fame: the role of a lifetime for the late...
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Following ‘The Dark Knight,’ Nolan’s ‘Inception’ is a Mind-Stupefying...
Rating: 5.0/5.0CHICAGO– After thinking it’d take “a couple months” to ink, director Christopher Nolan (of “The Dark Knight” fame) took eight years to painstakingly write the “Inception” script. And you...
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Patrick McDonald: ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ is Glorious Epic of Heroic Proportions
Rating: 5.0/5.0CHICAGO– Sound the gong for one of the best films of the summer, as “The Dark Knight Rises” delivers an awe-inspiring blockbuster on virtually every level of storytelling and...
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Brian Tallerico: ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Gives Fans Epic Conclusion to...
Rating: 4.0/5.0CHICAGO– With “The Dark Knight Rises”, Christopher Nolan epically follows through on most of the themes he set up in “Batman Begins” and “The Dark Knight” with amazing technical skill...
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Adam Fendelman: ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Realizes Nolan’s Trifecta: One of...
Rating: 4.5/5.0CHICAGO(No-Spoiler Promise!)– In a Hollywood test tube, pour one part Michael Bay and his pure “Transformers” eye candy plus another part Quentin Tarantino with his rich writing and...
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Influential Filmmakers Discuss Digital Revolution in ‘Side by Side’
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– We are at the tipping point of a technology that has been used for a hundred years to capture the moving image. Shooting on film is going away as more and more filmmakers use...
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‘Man of Steel’ Soars Visually But Lacks Humanity
Rating: 2.0/5.0CHICAGO– From the CGI-heavy attack on Krypton that opens Zack Snyder’s “Man of Steel” to its soaring finale, I had the same reaction -– where’s the “Man half? Snyder’s attempt to reboot...
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‘Man of Steel’ is Strong, But Not Completely Heroic
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– Place the Superman legend into the hands of director Zack Snyder (“Watchmen”) and storyteller/producer Christopher Nolan (“Dark Knight”), and old Supes is bound for a makeover...
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‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ Pledges Allegiance to Strong Action,...
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– In record-breaking time, even for Marvel, a comic book character has had their existence (basically) rebooted. The arc may be continued from the previous film, and some of the...
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Meditative ‘Transcendence’ Also Artificially Intelligent
Rating: 3.0/5.0CHICAGO– The Internet is for real in “Transcendence”, a B-movie with grade-A production quality, loaded with terabyte-size open-ended questions, so long as one can accept it lastly with...
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Miscast Crew Spoils Christopher Nolan’s Epic ‘Interstellar’
Rating: 3.0/5.0CHICAGO– “Interstellar” is easily director Christopher Nolan’s worst film. It contains much of the ambition and striking visuals that have endeared him to audiences, but for large chunks...
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‘Interstellar’ is Supposed to Mean Something, But What?
Rating: 3.0/5.0CHICAGO– It is most likely that movie goers were asking the same question of Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” in 1968, but Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” belongs to its own...
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Christopher Nolan’s Riveting Story Shines Brightest in Imperfectly Cast...
Rating: 4.0/5.0CHICAGO– It was Monday, Nov. 3, 2014 at 10:15 p.m. Leaving Navy Pier IMAX, I was driving north on Lake Shore Drive – a constantly busy, multi-lane highway that hugs the east of Chicago...
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Heroics of ‘Dunkirk’ Portrayed Ardently & Humanely
Rating: 4.0/5.0CHICAGO– War is hell, even in “The Good War.” The early days of World War II were a desperate time for the British, and the events of “Dunkirk” were largely about loss, yet mostly about...
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HollywoodChicago.com ESP, En Español: ‘Atomic Blonde,’ ‘Detroit,’ y ‘Dunkirk’
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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Full Glory of Cinema Art Resides in 70mm ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
Rating: 5.0/5.0CHICAGO– It is the 50th Anniversary of director Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey,” and the film has lost none of its power, freshness and thought process, in a journey of truth...
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