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Dann Gire

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Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% 2/4 EDIT “Just in time for Thanksgiving, Universal Pictures presents us with an overstuffed turkey of a musical sequel.” – Chicago Daily Herald Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Anaconda (2025) 48% 2.5/4 EDIT “At a meta-merciful 1 hour, 40 minutes, “Anaconda” could have used one more pass through the editing software to tighten up the fun stuff in a series reboot that prefers scares over suspense and fulfilling expectations over exceeding them.” – Chicago Daily Herald Jan 27, 2026 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 91% 3.5/4 EDIT “This time, they got it right. Right enough, anyway. After a lengthy and ponderous prologue giving us a crash-course in Middle-earth history, Fellowship of the Ring slides into pure movie magic.” – Chicago Daily Herald Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Naked Gun (2025) 87% 2/4 EDIT “Sprinkles a few laugh-worthy moments over a hodgepodge of bits struggling to be worthy of the original films” – Chicago Daily Herald Aug 8, 2025 Full Review Dangerous Animals (2025) 87% 2.5/4 EDIT “The dumbness is in the details when screenwriter Nick Lepard sacrifices “Jaws”-level realism by succumbing to B-movie contrivances.” – Chicago Daily Herald Jun 5, 2025 Full Review Bring Her Back (2025) 89% 3.5/4 EDIT “This movie belongs to Hawkins, who creates a multilayered villain simultaneously abhorrent, yet curiously sympathetic.” – Chicago Daily Herald Jun 2, 2025 Full Review The Surfer (2024) 84% 3/4 EDIT “The Surfer cannily sidesteps into a blackest of comedies centered around toxic maleness, herd-mentality branding rituals, a man’s midlife crisis, and how easy an individual can be broken down and reassembled to fit in with a local male-centric cult.” – Chicago Daily Herald May 1, 2025 Full Review Sinners (2025) 97% 4/4 EDIT “A bold reinvention of the horror genre, a truly frightening experience that unleashes the disturbing dark power of the blues, blends it with old-fashioned, Christianity-based vampire lore, all designed to warn us about the seductive appeal of evil.” – Chicago Daily Herald Apr 18, 2025 Full Review Death of a Unicorn (2025) 52% 3/4 EDIT ““Death” delivers a timely expose of the semantic tactics of control and disinformation sowed by the hilariously clueless and unabashedly selfish rich elite.” – Chicago Daily Herald Apr 1, 2025 Full Review Novocaine (2025) 81% 3/4 EDIT “The cheerfully violent, stunt-stuffed Novocaine sets its entertainment sights fairly low, then wildly exceeds them for most of its brisk and bloody running time.” – Chicago Daily Herald Mar 14, 2025 Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 78% 2.5/4 EDIT “The disappointing “Mickey 17” radiates comic potential, but settles for amused guffaws when it wants to go for hard, gasping laughs of the sort inspired by the disturbingly insightful and shocking elements in Ho’s Oscar-winning Best Picture “Parasite.”” – Chicago Daily Herald Mar 7, 2025 Full Review The Monkey (2025) 77% 2.5/4 EDIT “The Monkey, based on King’s 1980 short story of the same title, fails to terrify us. It barely scares us. But man, oh man, does it ever gross us out.” – Chicago Daily Herald Feb 24, 2025 Full Review Presence (2024) 88% 2/4 EDIT “Hey, it’s a ghost movie. And one that might make Chekhov turn over in his grave.” – Chicago Daily Herald Jan 24, 2025 Full Review Wolf Man (2025) 48% 1.5/4 EDIT ““Wolf Man” is a severe disappointment, especially because Whannell wrote and directed Elizabeth Moss’ 2020 vehicle “The Invislble Man,” a smart and surprising update of Universal’s classic 1933 thriller.” – Chicago Daily Herald Jan 16, 2025 Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% 4/4 EDIT “A true epic clocking in at 3 hours and 35 minutes, The Brutalist deserves to be experienced on a big screen where Corbet constantly throws big ideas all over a big painterly canvas like a crazed, cinematic Jackson Pollock.” – Chicago Daily Herald Jan 10, 2025 Full Review Nightbitch (2024) 60% 2.5/4 EDIT “Fortunately, Adams twists her dialogue with just enough humor to make Mother’s most accurately depressive thoughts curiously amusing -- all while reinventing herself as a model of dogged determination.” – Chicago Daily Herald Dec 6, 2024 Full Review Gladiator II (2024) 70% 1.5/4 EDIT “There’s no slack to the yak in this dramatically turgid and inadvertently comical miscalculation, easily the dumbest, detail-challenged sword-and-sandal release of the century so far.” – Chicago Daily Herald Nov 22, 2024 Full Review Wicked (2024) 88% 4/4 EDIT “Radiant with combustible chemistry, Grande and Erivo play off each other with the testy flair of Olympic-class fencers. ” – Chicago Daily Herald Nov 22, 2024 Full Review A Real Pain (2024) 96% 3.5/4 EDIT “This compact 89-minute relationship study works with an almost nonexistent plot, and with sharply drawn, realistic characters brought to life by a sublime cast. And it never quite goes where you think it will.” – Chicago Daily Herald Nov 15, 2024 Full Review Heretic (2024) 90% 3/4 EDIT “Heretic works as a study in obsession, executed by a pitch-perfect Grant peeling off never-ending layers of villainy like a human onion. But Thatcher and East rise up to be equal matches for him as two worthy and resistant foils.” – Chicago Daily Herald Nov 8, 2024 Full Review Here (2024) 36% 2/4 EDIT “A conceptually daring but tiresome gimmick movie, a virtually plotless, visually busy anthology of nonintersecting stories spanning zillions of years, and we feel as if we’ve sat through most of them.” – Chicago Daily Herald Nov 2, 2024 Full Review Conclave (2024) 93% 3.5/4 EDIT “Conclave is a rare find at local theaters, political intrigue merged with a thinking viewer's thriller slowly unfolding like a classic murder mystery, but without a Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot.” – Chicago Daily Herald Oct 25, 2024 Full Review Monster Summer (2024) 59% 3/4 EDIT “Larry Blanford's impressively strong wide-screen camera work elevates a perfunctory screenplay...” – Chicago Daily Herald Oct 19, 2024 Full Review Smile 2 (2024) 86% 3/4 EDIT “Smile 2 messes massively with our perceptions of reality. It constantly keeps us off-kilter, employing sneaky twists and a brutal barrage of mind-bending point-of-view perspectives...” – Chicago Daily Herald Oct 19, 2024 Full Review The Outrun (2024) 82% 2/4 EDIT “In the more literal realm of movies, they feel poetically pretentious and add considerable weight to a heavy drama already testing its characters’ welcome...” – Chicago Daily Herald Oct 4, 2024 Full Review
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