The actor’s earnest appeal distinguishes lowbrow comedy from others in the genre.
Tag: The Paperboy
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Ten recent movies that I wish had been directed by Lee Daniels
Daniels’s exuberance and weird integrity could have benefitted a good number of recent movies.
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Why does John Turturro’s sex comedy make some viewers so angry?
Fading Gigolo and the threat of role-play
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The Butler: The anti-Gump
In Lee Daniels’s The Butler, painful social realities collide with delirious fantasy.
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Aldrich rides again, and the rest of this week’s movies
A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between August 16 and 22.
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Four evil eyes in Winchester ’73 and The Paperboy
Comparing two sets of violent eyes: James Stewart in Winchester ’73 and John Cusack in The Paperboy
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A film festival audience goes to Paradise
Observations on the first Chicago screening of Austrian director Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise: Love