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MAUREEN M. HART
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Chicago Tribune

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Total Reviews: 24


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" Fryar is such pleasant company that the film's weaknesses can be overlooked."
Posted Oct 3, 2008
 
A Man Named Pearl (2008)71%
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3/4
 
" How much audiences will like Monster Camp may depend on their ability/need to abandon their everyday personas for weekends of fantasy dress-up and battles."
Posted Sep 4, 2008
 
Monster Camp (2007)62%
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3/4
 
" [Director Ilana] Trachtman doesn't downplay the challenges of a family with a Down syndrome child, even one as high-functioning as Lior."
Posted Jul 24, 2008
 
Praying with Lior (2008)74%
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3/4
 
" A hit and prize winner in Australia, Kenny has the power to charm, no matter which way the water swirls."
Posted Jul 17, 2008
 
Kenny (2008)100%
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Posted Jul 17, 2008
 
Indestructible (2008)n/a
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3/4
 
" Though the film could have used better explainers for some of its talking heads...its message is as satisfying as the sweetest revenge."
Posted Jul 9, 2008
 
Forgiveness (2004)n/a
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Posted Jul 9, 2008
 
Shotgun Stories (2007)90%
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Posted Jun 24, 2008
 
A Four Letter Word (2008)67%
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1/4
 
" Arthur provides some overly mannered narration via a journal he's been keeping, but that also offers few clues to how much of what we're seeing is real or imagined."
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Fade (2008)n/a
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" The Favor measures the costs of crushing disappointment and the strength of love, and though those themes are the stuff of soap opera, writer/director Eva Aridjis recruited just the right cast to keep the suds at bay."
Posted Apr 10, 2008
 
The Favor (2008)39%
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1/4
 
" It's hard to believe that a lineup so stellar could generate so few laughs, but there it is."
Posted Apr 3, 2008
 
The Grand ()40%
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2.5/4
 
" The performances feel natural, improvised, and it's easy to believe this is the world we inhabit."
Posted Mar 27, 2008
 
Look (2007)61%
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3/4
 
" Tragedy and closure, memory and truth are the subjects of writer/director Gil Kofman's first narrative feature."
Posted Mar 20, 2008
 
The Memory Thief (2008)77%
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3/4
 
" Former talk show host Ricki Lake had her first baby in a hospital and came away with the need for a birth experience that was more empowering, with less medical intervention."
Posted Feb 15, 2008
 
The Business Of Being Born (2008)77%
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3/4
 
" Sho Sakurai is the Michael Cera of Japan as the lovestruck hero of Honey and Clover, directed by Masahiro Takasa from the popular Japanese comic by Chica Umino."
Posted Feb 15, 2008
 
Honey and Clover (2006)n/a
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3/4
 
" Harshly beautiful."
Posted Feb 1, 2008
 
Daughters of Wisdom (2007)80%
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4/4
 
" It's inspirational to watch and listen as the Steinway employees demonstrate with pride their part in producing an instrument that will sell for more than $100,000 and may succeed some of its brethren on the stage at Carnegie Hall."
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Note by Note: The Making of the Steinway L1037 (2007)90%
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2.5/4
 
" After a strong start, Oswald's Ghost ends up as ephemeral as its namesake."
Posted Nov 15, 2007
 
Oswald's Ghost (2007)74%
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Posted Oct 20, 2007
 
I Have Never Forgotten You (2007)81%
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Posted Oct 6, 2007
 
Shadow Company (2007)85%
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2.5/4
 
" We see where this is going early on; by the end, despite the film's beautiful cinematography, persuasive subjects and ironically upbeat soundtrack, we just feel bludgeoned."
Posted Sep 27, 2007
 
Manda Bala (2007)80%
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2/4
 
" Sydney White, according to its producers, is a sequel to Hilary Duff's A Cinderella Story, and it shares with that 2004 film the vacuum-like ability to suck the fun out of a fairy tale."
Posted Sep 21, 2007
 
Sydney White (2007)37%
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" For a much more micro look at the storm's impact upon a small band of New Orleans eccentrics, there's David Redmon and Ashley Sabin's Kamp Katrina."
Posted Aug 30, 2007
 
Kamp Katrina (2007)80%
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2/4
 
" As Eye of the Dolphin makes some jarringly contrived plot twists, a viewer can imagine writer/director/executive producer Michael Sellers listing his assets and pondering how to combine them for one movie."
Posted Aug 23, 2007
 
Eye of the Dolphin (2007)33%

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