Dann Gire
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'Downton Abbey' visually ratchets up the drama in winning, uplifting filmSep 19, 2019 6:00 am - “Downton Abbey” - ★ ★ ★ ½ If Jane Austen had written this movie, she would have titled it “Pride and Purpose.” The last thing you might expect this big-screen version of...
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Film adaptation of 'The Goldfinch' a disjointed, impassionate coming-of-age dramaSep 12, 2019 6:00 am - "The Goldfinch" - ★ ★ Donna Tartt took 11 years to write her 2013 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Goldfinch." John Crowley's film adaptation feels almost as long. May...
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11 films for fall - from the Batman tale 'Joker' to the biopic 'Judy'Sep 08, 2019 7:32 am - Ah, autumn. School resumes. Daylight saving time doesn't. And the movies slide into serious award-season mode by jettisoning the light and frothy films of summer. At lea...
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Actor and Schaumburg native Michael Roark still a 'classic' suburban guySep 04, 2019 5:30 am - Actor. Producer. Attorney. Classic Suburban Guy. Michael Roark doesn't get paid for that last job. But that's how he described himself in a Daily Herald interview back i...
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Wedding-night horror comedy 'Ready or Not' wields laughs and goreAug 20, 2019 12:00 pm - "Ready or Not" - ★ ★ ★ ½ Traditionally, horror films released during late August (the so-called "dog days" of summer cinema) tend to be cheap, stupid and exploitative. T...
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'Gwen' a pretty, but ho-hum period horror taleAug 15, 2019 6:00 am - "Gwen" - ★ ★ It's hard to tell if William McGregor's dark and murky, unsatisfying gothic drama "Gwen" wants to be a cutting art-house horror tale like Robert Eggers' "Th...
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Cate Blanchett, Barrington teen shine in comic 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette'Aug 14, 2019 8:00 pm - "Where'd You Go Bernadette?" - ★ ★ ★ There seems to be something missing in this movie besides Bernadette. The Richard Linklater edge. The poet director who gave us int...
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Barrington teen makes movie debut in 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' with Cate BlanchettAug 13, 2019 1:00 am - Barrington High School student Emma Nelson and her parents arrived at the Lake Street Screening Room in Chicago's Loop last November to attend a movie that only they had...
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'Mike Wallace' documentary a timely, telling portrait of TV journalistAug 01, 2019 6:00 am - "Mike Wallace is Here" - ½ Avi Belkin's tight and hard-hitting journalistic profile "Mike Wallace is Here" begins with a classic square-off between the irascib...
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Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham trade insults, punches in wildly inconsistent 'Hobbs & Shaw'Aug 01, 2019 5:00 am - “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw” - ★ ½ I've never seen a movie title “present” another movie title before. How exactly does that work? Nonetheless, “Fast & Furiou...