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Film, Movie Review Sep 19, 2019
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Ad Astra sends father-son conflict into space

Director James Gray’s latest returns to the theme of the powerful but imperfect patriarch.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Ad Astra, James Gray, Brad Pitt, patriarch, Tommy Lee Jones, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Apocalypse Now, Little Odessa, The Lost City of Z, We Own the Night, The Yards, Video

Film, Movie Review Jul 25, 2019
Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood indulges the fantasy of movie history when it could be questioning it

Or, a collection of Quentin Tarantino’s favorite things about late-60s LA.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino, Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Sharon Tate, Charles Manson, Manson Family, Hollywood, movies, Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight, Al Pacino, Kurt Russell, Lena Dunham, late 60s, histori

Blogs, Bleader Dec 18, 2015
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The longest night of the year, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this weekl's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Leah Pickett, The Big Short, Michael Lewis, Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell, Christian Bale, Youth movie, Paolo Sorrentino, The Great Beauty, Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano, Jane Fonda, Christmas Again, Dreams Rewired, Tilda Swinton, Flowers movie, Sisters movie, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, John Paizs, Crime Wave, Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, On the Town, Frank Tashlin, Susan Slept Here, White Christmas, It's a Wonderful Life, Video

Film, Movie Review Dec 17, 2015
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The Big Short nails the culprits of the 2008 financial crisis—and you're one of them

Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell, and Christian Bale star in this adaptation of the Michael Lewis best seller.
- By Leah Pickett
- Tags: Movie Review, The Big Short, Adam McKay, Michael Lewis, subprime mortgage crisis, Wall Street, Ryan Gosling, Charles Randolph, Christian Bale, Brad Pitt, Steve Carell, Video

Film, Movie Review Jul 10, 2015
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Minions proves that celebrity voices don't make a children's animation

Sandra Bullock stars in the latest Despicable Me feature—but who cares?
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Kyle Balda, Pierre Coffin, Minions, Despicable Me, Despicable Me 2, Dreamworks, Shark Tale, Over the Hedge, Bruce Willis, William Shatner, Robert De Niro, Steve Carrell, MegaMind, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, Sandra Bullock, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 17, 2014
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Ten more CIFF reviews, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Chicago International Film Festival, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Roger and Me, Michael Moore, The Best of Me, Michelle Monaghan, James Marsden, The Book of Life, Expedition to the End of the World, Fury World War II, Brad Pitt, The Green Prince, Keep On Keepin' On, Clark Terry, Justin Kauflin, Rudderless, Billy Crudup, St. Vincent, Bill Murray, 20, 000 Days on Earth, Nick Cave, Whiplash, The Yank movie, Chicago Comedy Film Festival, Tim Burton, Beetlejuice, Logan Theater Chicago, Nagisa Oshima The Ceremony, The Man Who Left His Will on Film, Gene Siskel Film Center, Joe Dante, Gremlins movie, John Carpenter Halloween, Music Box Chicago, George A. Romero, Night of the Living Dead, Richard Pryor Live in Concert, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Fatih Akin, Soul Kitchen, David Bowie, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, MCA Chicago, Chicago Film Archives, Massacre marathon, Portage Theater Chicago, film festivals, movies, Video

Film, Movie Critic's Choice Oct 16, 2013
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12 Years a Slave: Mighty white of you

Steve McQueen's historical drama tells of a free northerner taken into bondage.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave, Hunger, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Solomon Northrup, Brad Pitt, Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Fassbender, Lupita Nyong'o, Paul Giamatti, Scoot McNairy, Paul Dano, Sarah Paulson, Alfre Woodard, Recommended, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 4, 2012
Yak, yak, yak—whack! On Killing Them Softly's source novel

The film re-creates the glum talk and savage violence of its source novel
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Books, Arts, Film, Killing Them Softly, Brad Pitt, Andrew Dominik, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Box Office Mojo, Ocean's Eleven, George V. Higgins, Cogan's Trade, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, which Robert Mitchum, Scoot McNairy, Richard Jenkins, George W. Bush, John McCain, Barack Obama, James Gandolfini, crime fiction, movies

Blogs, Bleader Nov 30, 2012
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Check out Adolf's newest playlist on Spotify, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Wagner & Me, Gene Siskel Film Center, Stephen Fry, Gosford Park, Richard Wagner, Adolf Hitler, Killing Them Softly, Brad Pitt, Andrew Dominik, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte, Andrea Arnold, Red Road, Fish Tank, Fat Kid Rules the World, Jacob Wysocki, Terri movie, A Liar's Autobiograpy, Graham Chapman, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Shirley Clarke, The Connection, University of Chicago Doc Films, Wong Kar-wai, Happy Together, In the Mood for Love, Stephen Chow, Kung Fu Hustle, Jean-Luc Godard, Made in U.S.A., Wim Wenders, Pina Bausch, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Psycho Alfred Hitchcock, Landmark's Century Centre, Joe Dante, Small Soldiers, Richard Fleischer, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Terror in the Aisles 13, Portage Theater Chicago; Phantasm, Dario Argento, The Bird With the Crystal Plumage, Chicago movies, Video

Film, Movie Critic's Choice Nov 28, 2012
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Money shots

Brad Pitt and director Andrew Dominik team again on Killing Them Softly, a tense tale of hard talk and murder
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, Killing Them Softly, Andrew Dominik, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Brad Pitt, George V. Higgins, Cogan's Trade, Richard Jenkins, James Gandolfini, Scoot McNairy, Vincent Curatola, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 9, 2012
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Straight-Up Lincoln, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, The Great Gatsby, Leonardo DiCaprio, Baz Luhrman, Moulin Rouge, Hyde Park on Hudson, Bill Murray, Killing Them Softly, Brad Pitt, Andrew Dominik, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Les Miserables, Tom Hooper, The King's Speech, Not Fade Away, David Chase, Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell, The Fighter movie, Steven Spielberg, Lincoln movie, Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, Daniel Strathairn, Skyfall movie, James Bond, A Late Quartet, Yaron Zliberman, Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mark Ivanir, Life Without Principle, Johnnie To, Francine Melissa Leo, Holy Motors, Leos Carax, The Lovers on the Bridge, Ben Sachs, The Nine Muses, John Akomfrah, Handsworth Songs, Nobody Walks, Lena Dunham, Older Children, Duncan Riddell, A Red Orchid Theatre, As Long as You're Healthy, Yoyo Pierre Etaix, Gene Siskel Film Center, Pierre Etaix, Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers, University of Chicago Doc Films, Buster Keaton, The Cameraman, Music Box Chicago, Dennis Scott, Fred Wilcox, Forbidden Planet, Laura Otto Preminger, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Marnie Alfred Hitchcock, Northbrook Public Library, Hayao Miyakzaki, My Neighbor Totoro, Vincente Minnelli, Some Came Running, Fred Camper, Lawrence Jordan, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Chicago Filmmakers, Viaduct Theater, John Davies, V-Day 11.11.11, Loyola University Lewis Towers, Jonathan Rosenbaum, You Got to Move: Stories of Change in the South, Cinema Borealis, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 18, 2012
A paramount picture from Paramount Pictures

The studio releases a posed shot of 116 important artists as part of its centennial celebration
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Paramount Pictures, Brad Bird, Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, George Clooney, Leonardo Di Caprio, Julianne Moore, Sean Penn, Brad Pitt, Natalie Portman, Ryan O'Neal, Mickey Rooney, Eva Marie Saint, Justin Bieber, Dakota Fanning, Anna Kendrick, Shia LaBeouf

Blogs, Bleader Feb 28, 2012
Talking reefer in the land of Antonin Scalia

Mick and Ben go to the University of Chicago to talk about marijuana
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: The Reefer, Antonin Scalia, Brad Pitt, cannabis, Jeff Bridges, marijuana, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Mick Dumke, reefer, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, the Big Lebowski, True Romance, University of Chicago

Blogs, Bleader Dec 22, 2011
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Best of 2011, number 3: The Tree of Life

J.R. Jones on The Tree of Life, his third-favorite film of 2011.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life, Brad Pitt, Douglas Trumbull, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Blade Runner, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken, Stanley Kubrick, Clint Eastwood, Hereafter movie, Hereafter Clint Eastwood, movies, Video

Film, Movie Review Jun 2, 2011
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Terrence Malick moves heaven and earth in The Tree of Life
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick, Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, Douglas Trumbull, Hunter McCracken, Sean Penn, Landmark's Century Centre, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 4, 2010
Now Playing: Megamind

J.R. Jones reviews the new Dreamworks animation Megamind.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Pixar, The Incredibles, Zoom movie, Hancock movie, ABC, No Ordinary Family, Dreamworks, Will Ferrrell, Brad Pitt, Metro Man, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, Tom MccGrath, Madagascar, animated features, computer animation, movies

Blogs, Bleader Jan 28, 2009
Mr. Right For CPS

Ron Huberman has met the primary requirement for heading the Chicago Public Schools: he knows how to keep Mayor Daley happy.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: News, Clout City, Chicago Public Schools, City Of Chicago, Tifs, Mayor Richard Daley, Arne Duncan, Chicago politics, Ron Huberman, President Barack Obama, Brad Pitt, Marlon Brando, U.S. Department of Education

Film, Movie Review Dec 6, 2001
What Have We Learned?
- By Bill Stamets
- Tags: Movie Review, Tony Scott, John Moore, Owen Wilson, Brad Pitt, Robert Redford

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Director James Gray’s latest returns to the theme of the powerful but imperfect patriarch.

Or, a collection of Quentin Tarantino’s favorite things about late-60s LA.

New reviews and notable screenings in this weekl's issue

Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell, and Christian Bale star in this adaptation of the Michael Lewis best seller.

Sandra Bullock stars in the latest Despicable Me feature—but who cares?

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Steve McQueen's historical drama tells of a free northerner taken into bondage.

The film re-creates the glum talk and savage violence of its source novel

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Brad Pitt and director Andrew Dominik team again on Killing Them Softly, a tense tale of hard talk and murder

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

The studio releases a posed shot of 116 important artists as part of its centennial celebration

Mick and Ben go to the University of Chicago to talk about marijuana

J.R. Jones on The Tree of Life, his third-favorite film of 2011.

J.R. Jones reviews the new Dreamworks animation Megamind.

Ron Huberman has met the primary requirement for heading the Chicago Public Schools: he knows how to keep Mayor Daley happy.

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