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‘The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It’ is Haunted By Its Past
Rating: 2.5/5.0CHICAGO– The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is our third official, not-counting-the-spinoffs foray into the “based on true events” shenanigans of Ed and Lorraine Warren, and it’s...
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Cinematic and Literary Influences Temper the Glorious Chaos of ‘Loki’
Rating: 4.5/5.0CHICAGO– From villain to anti-hero to homoerotic fan fiction icon, Loki has traveled a long way from the greasy-haired megalomaniac we have come to love. For most of his cinematic...
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Feature: The Importance of the Quiet Revolution of ‘In the Heights’
Rating: 4.5/5.0CHICAGO - When I used to have cable television (when I lived with my parents and they paid for it), there was this section of one hundred or so music channels, each with a different...
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‘Luca’ Uses Queer-Bait Hoping to Reel in a Hit, Ends Up Snagged
Rating: 2.0/5.0CHICAGO– Even as an adult, I am still in awe of how effective animated features are as narrative vehicles. As a kid, it was the thing I would consume the most, gorging myself into a...
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'Free Guy' Doesn’t Play Around When It Comes to Delivering a Good Time
Rating: 4.0/5.0CHICAGO– Playing video games is one of the single most infuriating experiences that I continue to put myself through. One of my few masochistic traits emerge whenever I boot up my PC or...
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‘The Protege’ Understood the Assignment and Studied Up On Action Films Past
Rating: 4.0/5.0CHICAGO– I’ve always felt that the line between being a spy or an assassin has always been blade-thin. Both kill people based on the orders of someone else. They are always highly...
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'Shang-Chi' Proves to be a Master of Multiple Genres
Rating: 4.5/5.0CHICAGO– There is an undeniable pleasure in watching films that don’t take themselves too seriously. Nothing against the Nolans and Snyders of the comic book universe because they...
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'Halloween Kills' Challenges What We Think We Know About the Franchise
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– There’s no way around it, horror is one of the most difficult film genres to work within. It constantly needs to be evolving in order to keep up with the ever-growing terror...
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Despite Sandy Start and Trope Pitfalls, 'Dune' Could be the Next 'Star Wars'
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– Everything has ‘potential’ and in examining that you reveal a little bit about yourself. Seeing the ‘potential’ in something is inherently an exercise in optimism because you...
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'Eternals' isn't the Hero Film We Deserve, But the One We Need Right Now
Rating: 4.0/5.0CHICAGO– At some point, everything evolves. This isn’t something that’s exclusive to Pokemon, but a process that all of us have undergone to get to where we are. Evolution is always...
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