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Film, Movie Feature Dec 16, 2019
Jumanji: The Next Level playfully challenges compulsory identity

The Rock and the gang show pleasure in polymorphism.
- By Noah Berlatsky
- Tags: Movie Feature, Jumanji, Laura Mulvey, Jake Kasdan, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Jumanji: The Next Level, Dwayne Johnson, Karen Gillan, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Danny Devito, Alex Woolf, Morgan Turner, Ser'Darius Blain, Danny Glover, Awkwafina, identity

Blogs, Bleader Jun 5, 2017
Zac Efron's performance is one of the only reasons to see Baywatch

The actor's earnest appeal distinguishes lowbrow comedy from others in the genre.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Comedy, Film, Baywatch, Zac Efron, Dwayne Johnson, Dirty Grandpa, Me and Orson Welles, The Paperboy, We Are Your Friends, Neighbors, lowbrow comedy

Blogs, Bleader May 3, 2013
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Feeling the burn, 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, Ben Sachs, Pain & Gain, Michael Bay, Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie, Persistence of Vision, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mira Nair, Mississippi Masala, The Namesake, The Big Wedding, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Hava Nagila (The Movie), Iron Man 3, Robert Downey Jr., Kon Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl, My Afghanistan: Life in the Forbidden Zone, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Lizzie Borden, Born in Flames, Gene Siskel Film Center, Haile Gerima, Bush Mama, Logan Center for the Arts, Stanley Donen, Funny Face, University of Chicago Doc Films, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, Part II, John Cassavetes, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Patio Theater Chicago, Orson Welles, The Lady From Shanghai, Touch of Evil, Music Box Chicago, Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman, Detroit Threat Management, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Beneath the Blindfold, Wellington Avenue Church of Christ, film festivals, movies, Video

Film, Movie Review May 1, 2013
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Pain & Gain wants to kick your ass

Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson star in Michael Bay's satire of the American dream.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Paul Verhoeven, Showgirls, Jacques Rivette, Michael Bay, Pain & Gain, Miami, Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie, Bad Boys, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Transformers, Tony Shalhoub, GoodFellas, Horatio Alger, Ken Jeong

Blogs, Bleader Mar 1, 2013
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Chan-wook Park, Abbas Kiarostami, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, European Union Film Festival, Like Someone in Love, Abbas Kiarostami, Pavilion movie, Tim Sutton, Stoker movie, Chan-wook Park, Bless Me Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya, Jack the Giant Slayer, Bryan Singer, X-Men, Phantom Ed Harris, A Place at the Table, Snitch movie, Dwayne Johnson, Zhang Yimou Hero, (University of Chicago Doc Films, Don Siegel, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Logan Theater Chicago, Alain Resnais, Last Year at Marienbad, Buster Keaton, Steamboat Bill Jr., Chicago Irish Film Festival, River East 21, Society for Arts, Chicago Underground Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 26, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Jake Gyllenhaal, Pfizer, Anne Hathaway, Love and Other Drugs, Jamie Reidy, Hard Sell The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman, Jake Whitney, Burlesque movie, Cher, Christine Aguilera, Doghouse movie, Faster, Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton, Made in Dagenham, Sally Hawkins, Happy Go Lucky movie, Ford Motor Company, 7 Days in Slow Motion, Sing The Music of Sesame Street, Stigmata movie, Sundance Institute 2010 Shorts Program, Sundance Film Festival, Tangled movie, Rapunzel, Three Days With the Family, Terrence Malick, Badlands movie, Music Box, D.W. Griffith, Broken Blossoms, Stanley Kubrick, Eyes Wide Shut, Georges Franju, Eyes Without a Face, Museum of Contemporary Art, Alfred Hitchcock, Frenzy (1972), Saturday and Sunday at Music Box; the full-length cut of Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate, Frank Capra, It's a Wonderful Life, Pritzker Park, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 28, 2007
Welcome to LA

Richard Kelly's pop-satirical Southland Tales takes on, well, just about everything.
- By Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Christopher Lambert, Richard Kelly, Southland Tales, Dwayne Johnson, Kiss Me Deadly, Blade Runner, Kathryn Bigelow, Strange Days, Alex Cox, Repo Man, Miracle Mile, Save the Green Planet, Walker, Falling Down, Ubu Roi, Charivari

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Jumanji: The Next Level playfully challenges compulsory identity

The Rock and the gang show pleasure in polymorphism.

Zac Efron's performance is one of the only reasons to see Baywatch

The actor's earnest appeal distinguishes lowbrow comedy from others in the genre.

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Feeling the burn, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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Pain & Gain wants to kick your ass

Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson star in Michael Bay's satire of the American dream.

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Chan-wook Park, Abbas Kiarostami, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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This Week's Movie Action

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Richard Kelly's pop-satirical Southland Tales takes on, well, just about everything.

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Jumanji: The Next Level playfully challenges compulsory identity

The Rock and the gang show pleasure in polymorphism.

Zac Efron's performance is one of the only reasons to see Baywatch

The actor's earnest appeal distinguishes lowbrow comedy from others in the genre.

Video Feeling the burn, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Image Pain & Gain wants to kick your ass

Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson star in Michael Bay's satire of the American dream.

Video Chan-wook Park, Abbas Kiarostami, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Video This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

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Richard Kelly's pop-satirical Southland Tales takes on, well, just about everything.

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Feeling the burn, and the rest of this week's screenings

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Pain & Gain wants to kick your ass

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Chan-wook Park, Abbas Kiarostami, and the rest of this week's movies

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