Dann Gire
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Tepid scares, distanced characters water down horrors of ‘Night Swim’Jan 04, 2024 3:35 pm - Director/writer Bryce McGuire contributes a tepid disappointment to the “there’s something in the water” horror genre with “Night Swim,” a plodding, suspense-starved fami...
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Top 10 movies of 2023 a mixed bag of genresDec 28, 2023 9:30 am - To no one’s surprise, 2023 will go down as the year of “Barbenheimer,” the cleverly cute portmanteau that mashes together “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer,” the titles of two p...
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Duck! Look out for the opulent, animated epic family adventure ‘Migration’Dec 21, 2023 11:35 am - “Migration” - 3.5 stars I grew up watching generations of Mallard ducks living on a pond outside the front door of my rural route home, one reason why this animated...
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Sweeney, Powell battle saturated soundtrack in appealingly pugnacious rom-com ‘Anyone But You’Dec 20, 2023 4:08 pm - “Anyone But You” -- 2.5 stars After about an hour or so, Will Gluck’s appealingly pugnacious “Anyone But You” slowly succumbs to a dreaded rom-com syndrome I like to...
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‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ wins Best Picture at Chicago Film Critics awardsDec 15, 2023 3:42 pm - The CFCA named “Killers of the Flower Moon” Best Picture of 2023 Tuesday night.
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Heart of Stone: Courageous Emma rocks trippy, surrealistic coming-of-age feminist fantasyDec 12, 2023 4:11 pm - “Poor Things” -- 4 stars I have not witnessed a motion picture this robustly imaginative, this ferociously sexual, this optically explosive and this politically inc...
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Do not 'Wish' upon this star-crossed Disney animated musicalNov 30, 2023 11:21 am - “Wish” — ★ ★ “Wish” may be Walt Disney's newest addition to its family of animated features, but not its freshest. This mercifully short musical fantasy feels as if...
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Spectacular battle scenes quash epic love story in lengthy historical drama 'Napoleon'Nov 30, 2023 11:21 am - “Napoleon” — ★ ★ ½ I'm almost embarrassed to admit that while watching Ridley Scott's ambitious movie about an ambitious French soldier who would be emperor, I kept...
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Timely doc 'Common Ground' gives us the dirt on ineffective, deadly farming practicesNov 16, 2023 12:12 pm - “Common Ground” — ★ ★ ★ ½ An open letter to filmmaker Adam “The Big Short” McKay: Dear Mr. McKay, I have a perfect idea for your next movie — a dramatic version of ...
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Can't help falling in love with 'Priscilla' and its ideal cast, subtle direction, eye-popping production designsNov 10, 2023 9:13 am - “Priscilla” — ★ ★ ★ ★ Few Hollywood biographical dramas pack the risky level of exploitative and sensationalistic naughtiness nimbly negotiated in “Priscilla.” For ...