Movies
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Super Bowl alternatives: 5 football-free ideasFeb 05, 2017 6:00 am - Looking to do something on Sunday other than watching the Super Bowl? Good luck. Most malls are closed on Sunday night and many live theaters don't schedule shows during...
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Oscar-nominated 'I Am Not Your Negro' an urgent narrative of race in AmericaFeb 03, 2017 5:00 am - Somewhat deep into the searing and utterly necessary documentary “I Am Not Your Negro,” director Raoul Peck overlays audio from a 1960 U.S. Government film “The Land We ...
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Juvenile prison documentary struggles for larger pointFeb 03, 2017 5:00 am - The miscreants alluded to in the title of the documentary "They Call Us Monsters" are a trio of teenage boys, incarcerated in a California juvenile detention facility fo...
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'Autopsy' a horror tale with a split personalityFeb 02, 2017 5:00 am - Norwegian director Andre Ovredal's English-language debut, "The Autopsy of Jane Doe," doesn't possess as many personalities as James McAvoy does in "Split." But it has a...
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Pedro Almodóvar channels Hitchcock in the captivating 'Julieta'Feb 02, 2017 5:00 am - Awash in color, feminine psychodrama and heightened emotion, "Julieta" is a classic Pedro Almodóvar film - or, more accurately, a classicized version of the Almodóvar fi...
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De Niro's 'Comedian' a movie that forgets its own punchlineFeb 02, 2017 5:00 am - Robert De Niro's dark and sassy stand-up comic dramedy "The Comedian" feels like a 119-minute setup that forgot its punchline. "The Comedian" works as a provocative char...
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Oscar-nominated 'Salesman' a complex, empathetic taleFeb 02, 2017 5:00 am - Even as Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi layers his films with complexity, his command of narrative is utterly total. You get the impression he could direct his wa...
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Lake Zurich star to host film, Q&AFeb 02, 2017 5:00 am - Lake Zurich star to host film, Q&A Roni Akurati, the Lake Zurich teenager who stars in the new movie "Growing Up Smith," will host a Q&A after both the 4:30 and 7 p.m. s...
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Lake Zurich's Roni Akurati a charmer in comedy 'Growing Up Smith'Jan 31, 2017 10:00 pm - The culture-clash comedy "Growing Up Smith" possesses a big heart, features a funny and engagingly sincere performance by Lake Zurich's Roni Akurati, and offers an endin...
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Sundance doc chronicling rise of Donald Trump to air on Showtime FridayJan 31, 2017 5:00 am - In case you need a reminder of how Donald Trump mounted an unorthodox campaign and became the unlikely winner of the presidential election, the documentary “Trumped” is ...