Chicago Daily Herald
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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
2.5/4
Doctor Sleep (2019)
Flanagan moves King's story along in fits and starts.
Posted Nov 15, 2019
2
2/4
All the inspiration of a junior high book report.
Posted Nov 15, 2019
3
3.5/4
The Irishman (2019)
4
3/4
Joker (2019)
5
2.5/4
Abominable (2019)
Despite a hilarious running gag of goofy Whooping Snakes constantly popping up, Abominable doesn't hold the attention of its intended audience very long.
Posted Nov 15, 2019
6
3.5/4
Downton Abbey (2019)
7
3.5/4
Ready or Not (2019)
8
2/4
Gwen (2019)
The visual joys of Gwen can't compensate for the parched story they tell.
Posted Aug 16, 2019
9
3/4
Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019)
Bernadette may be a flawed hero, but a human one for a new era of self-aware moms.
Posted Aug 15, 2019
10
3/4
11
2.5/4
Stuber (2019)
12
3.5/4
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
13
1/4
Annabelle Comes Home (2019)
You know a horror movie's in trouble when the scariest thing in an evil-spirit-infested house turns out to be its garish, 1970s style wallpaper.
Posted Jul 3, 2019
14
4/4
Toy Story 4 (2019)
Directed with energetic sincerity.
Posted Jul 3, 2019
15
3/4
Plus One (2019)
Erskine and Quaid share a dazzling chemistry, and they wear their insecurities and feelings like iridescent safety vests.
Posted Jun 17, 2019
16
2/4
17
3/4
It sucks the air out of your lungs just thinking about how the filmmakers will top this.
Posted May 17, 2019
18
3.5/4
Long Shot (2019)
The Longest Shot of all: What are the odds that this zany rom-com would turn out to be the funniest crowd-pleaser of 2019 so far?
Posted May 17, 2019
19
2.5/4
Trial by Fire (2019)
Trial by Fire comes off as a thinner, mediocre version of another fact-based death-row drama.
Posted May 17, 2019
20
4/4
Us (2019)
The most frightening element has less to do with its operatic violence than its stunner suggestion as to who the film's true villains might be. It's a double delight.
Posted Mar 29, 2019
21
2/4
The Aftermath (2019)
The only thing sweeping in the dramatically underpowered The Aftermath would be rescue teams sweeping through bombed buildings while searching for survivors.
Posted Mar 29, 2019
22
2.5/4
Dumbo (2019)
23
3/4
Hotel Mumbai (2019)
Maras constructs scenes of unyielding suspense as patrons we come to know are placed in jeopardy again and again.
Posted Mar 29, 2019
24
2.5/4
A Dog's Way Home (2019)
A Dog's Way Home caters to kids instead of challenging them, especially near the end.
Posted Jan 11, 2019
25
4/4
Vice (2018)
Every scene in Adam McKay's bold and bonkers biopic Vice radiates with the unbridled energy of an exuberant, experimental work-in-progress.
Posted Dec 26, 2018
26
3/4
Anna and the Apocalypse (2018)
27
2.5/4
Creed II (2018)
28
2.5/4
The Grinch (2018)
29
3/4
Monster Party (2018)
Chris von Hoffman's Monster Party ranks as one of the better genre entries. It packs much more suspense, humor and shock value than the current Halloween reboot.
Posted Nov 2, 2018
30
3/4
Mid90s (2018)
Hill wants none of that canned Hollywood product. His authentic characters, created from grit and scratch, don't need a splashy ending.
Posted Oct 25, 2018
31
2/4
Halloween (2018)
This movie pays little attention to realistic details necessary to anchor an effective horror story.
Posted Oct 18, 2018
32
3.5/4
First Man (2018)
33
4/4
A Star Is Born (2018)
34
2/4
Life Itself (2018)
35
Kids, of course, will not know or care how derivative and suspenseless "House" can get, or how unscary it feels...
Posted Sep 20, 2018
36
3/4
Mandy (2018)
Cage treats Red Miller not as a knocked-out, one-note vigilante, but as a full-blown Shakespearean figure filled with vengeful wrath.
Posted Sep 18, 2018
37
1/4
The Basement (2018)
This wince-inducing endurance test makes the Saw movies appear downright moralistic.
Posted Sep 14, 2018
38
2.5/4
The Predator (2018)
39
3.5/4
The Wife (2018)
Runge directs The Wife with a straightforward, unadorned style, as if he knew Close's extraordinary performance would single-handedly lift this movie to a higher level.
Posted Aug 29, 2018
40
2.5/4
Operation Finale (2018)
By its second half, Operation Finale becomes a cluttered collection of unconvincing complications designed to ratchet up the suspense.
Posted Aug 29, 2018
41
2/4
Arizona (2018)
When it comes to something worthwhile to say, the bleakly black and blood-red comedy Arizona turns out to be as barren and deserted as its desolate suburban landscape.
Posted Aug 24, 2018
42
2.5/4
Papillon (2018)
43
3.5/4
McQuarrie stuffs a great 120-minute action film inside a very good 147-minute one that might have benefited from another run through the editing program.
Posted Aug 22, 2018
44
3/4
Christopher Robin (2018)
Fun, yet unsurprisingly conventional.
Posted Aug 22, 2018
45
2.5/4
The Meg (2018)
The Meg feels like a better production deal for the filmmakers than a better killer shark thriller for audiences.
Posted Aug 22, 2018
46
4/4
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Lee's spot-on, politically prescient serio-comedy BlacKkKlansman shouts it again, "Wake up!" but with more urgency, more intensity, more scares and more laughs.
Posted Aug 22, 2018
47
2.5/4
Alpha (2018)
Underdeveloped details ding this movie in small but significant ways.
Posted Aug 22, 2018
48
2/4
Equalizer 2 (2018)
Less attention has been paid to Richard Wenk's screenplay, a contrived work that traffics in lapses of common sense and internal logic, plus an artificially sweet ending.
Posted Jul 20, 2018
49
3.5/4
The King (2018)
The King presents a provocative exploration of the nation's soul.
Posted Jul 19, 2018
50
3/4
Unfriended: Dark Web (2018)