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Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller Seem Bored in Tepid ‘Little Fockers’
Rating: 2.0/5.0CHICAGO– The Law of Diminishing Returns is alive and well in the “Meet the Parents” Franchise, as the third film in the series, “Little Fockers,” has a lazy, we-did-it-for-the-money...
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More or Less Same Formula in ‘Kung Fu Panda 2’
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– Good and evil, chase and fight. Those are the two basic formulas that dominate “Kung Fu Panda 2,” the sequel to the very popular first film. That redundancy is helped by the...
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Great Cast Receives Winning Showcase in Dustin Hoffman’s ‘Quartet’
Rating: 4.0/5.0CHICAGO– There are few things more fragile than an actor’s ego. It must be treated with the utmost care in order to prevent a split-second meltdown. The enormous pressure of audience...
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Jon Favreau’s Anti-Popcorn Project ‘Chef’ Still Mild
Rating: 2.5/5.0CHICAGO– By the time of his 2011 box office blitzkrieg otherwise known as “Cowboys & Aliens,” the product that indie director-turned-Hollywood habitue Jon Favreau had been hocking as...
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Adam Sandler’s ‘The Cobbler’ a Historical, Stupefying Disaster
Rating: 1.0/5.0CHICAGO– The newest Adam Sandler film that doesn’t feature him dressed like a chubby middle schooler is really bad, but in a special way. Similarly, it is an instant classic in the...
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‘Papillon” Still Packs a Classic & Compelling Story
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– The remarkable true-ish story of “Papillon” is difficult to mess up. Henrí Charriére published the “autobiographical novel” in 1969, and the first film version dropped in 1973,...
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