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Jane Fonda Misused in ‘Peace, Love & Misunderstanding’
Rating: 2.5/5.0CHICAGO– Jane Fonda portraying an aging hippie seems like a slam dunk. She was a 1960s hippie at one time, right? Well, it’s obvious she wasn’t the type of hippie personified in “Peace,...
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Tina Fey Difficult to Get Into in ‘Admission’
Rating: 2.0/5.0CHICAGO– Tina Fey, love her. Paul Rudd, like his work, he’s a Judd Apatow guy. Wallace Shawn in “The Princess Bride,” exquisite. Lily Tomlin is a comedy legend. All these great and...
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Tearjerking ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ is ‘The Notebook’ of This Decade
Rating: 4.0/5.0CHICAGO– Sure, I’ll admit it. With so many new films to screen and review, I’ll choose the sci-fi action/thriller from the man behind the Bourne flicks over a movie that’s being called...
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Lily Tomlin Fuels the Journey Depicted in ‘Grandma’
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– There is a circumstantial and frank presentation of abortion in the new Paul Weitz film “Grandma,” and it probably could not have resulted the way it did if the story wasn’t...
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Everything is Beautiful at the Ballet in ‘Leap!’
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– One of the rites of passage for most girls in the U.S.(and elsewhere, I presume) is ballet lessons. Usually it lasts for a very short time, but some girls-to-women keep pursuing...
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You’ll Be Counting the Minutes Until You Too Can Be ‘Home Again’
Rating: 1.0/5.0CHICAGO– Seeing so many films on a daily basis, you would think that I would grow tired of them. I don’t. Instead, I begin to notice the same formulas in films, like the one in “Home...
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