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‘Elektra Luxx’ Offers Middling Showcase For Carla Gugino
Rating: 2.0/5.0CHICAGO– Sebastian Gutierrez is the sort of filmmaker who thrives best on the festival circuit. His work is just quirky and distinctive enough to garner overenthusiastic praise from...
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‘The Double Hour’ Cheats Audiences With Multiple Twists
Rating: 2.5/5.0CHICAGO– Early in “The Double Hour,” our heroine (a very effective and nearly movie-saving Ksenia Rappoport) goes to a speed dating session. The movie that follows is not unlike a...
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Frank Langella Shines in Delightful Sci-Fi Comedy ‘Robot and Frank’
Rating: 4.0/5.0CHICAGO– Frank’s world is fading before his eyes. With his wife gone and his children all grown up, Frank lives a reclusive existence, though he doesn’t seem to be in particular need of...
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‘Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel’ is Fabulous, Dahling
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– Biography documentaries often are the most creative of that film genre. Over the past few years some notable general releases have included “The Kid Stays in the Picture” (2002)...
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Sensual ‘Renoir’ Fails to Explore Titular Giants’ Genius
Rating: 2.5/5.0CHICAGO– Naming a picture after two of the great artistic minds in human history is quite a high bar to set. Director/co-writer Gilles Bourdos attempts to tell the tale of both...
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Courage of Testimony is Remembered in ‘Anita’
Rating: 4.0/5.0CHICAGO– The saga of Anita Hill, an African American law professor from Oklahoma, electrified the United States in the early 1990s. During the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court confirmation...
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Kevin Kline in Like Flynn For ‘The Last of Robin Hood’
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– The term “in like Flynn” still gets used, when delusional dudes think they have the score. The saying is a product of former matinee idol Errol Flynn, whose tastes in young...
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Rising Above Cancer in the Teen Dream ‘Hope Springs Eternal’
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– The topic of cancer is rarely heroic, and as we know mostly concludes tragically. But the new teen comedy “Hope Springs Eternal” turns the Big C on its ear, and features...
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A Little Drama! On-Air Review of ‘Stars Fell on Alabama’
Rating: 3.0/5.0CHICAGO– Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Dan Baker on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on January 7th, 2021, reviewing the new film “Stars Fell on...
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Her Art Will Go On! On-Air Film Review of ‘Aline’
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on April 7th, reviewing “Aline,” a fictional account of...
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