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James Franco, Danny Boyle Elevate Harrowing Saga of ‘127 Hours’
Rating: 4.5/5.0 CHICAGO – What separates us during extreme danger? Why do some people collapse under the weight of likely death while others push forward and make it out alive? What fuels the will to...
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‘Happythankyoumoreplease’ Falls Flat With Unlikable Characters
Rating: 2.0/5.0 CHICAGO – Josh Radnor’s “Happythankyoumoreplease” wants to be a new-generation Woody Allen film but misses the mark wildly by presenting characters that aren’t likable in situations...
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Meditative ‘Transcendence’ Also Artificially Intelligent
Rating: 3.0/5.0 CHICAGO – The Internet is for real in “Transcendence”, a B-movie with grade-A production quality, loaded with terabyte-size open-ended questions, so long as one can accept it lastly...
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Entertaining ‘The Martian’ is a Hollywood Space Opera
Rating: 4.0/5.0 CHICAGO – It’s all based on science, they told us! “The Martian” is an old fashion feel-good movie about the hard working astronauts and scientists of the good old American space...
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‘Morgan’ Takes Out Intelligence in Artificial Intelligence
Rating: 2.0/5.0 CHICAGO – There is nothing like the feeling of watching a completely immersive sci-fi film that delivers the complexity of technology in a modest package, and uses elements of nature...
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Discerning the Heroes is Tough in ‘Megan Leavey’
Rating: 2.0/5.0 CHICAGO – The poster is what gives away “Megan Leavey” the most. The titular soldier, and her bomb-sniffing dog, below a billowing American flag. So which war is it? Why, it’s the Iraq...
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