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‘Nothing Like the Holidays’ Does Nothing to Stand Out From Christmas Movie Crowd
Rating: 2.5/5.0CHICAGO– When it was still called “Humboldt Park” and was probably more closely related to Chicago’s thriving Hispanic neighborhood, Alfredo De Villa’s “Nothing Like the Holidays” was...
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Denzel Washington, John Travolta in Average ‘The Taking of Pelham 123’
Rating: 3.0/5.0CHICAGO– Tony Scott’s remake of “The Taking of Pelham 123,” starring Denzel Washington and John Travolta, is likely to meet sun-drained audience expectations for a straight-forward,...
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Russell Brand Tries Too Hard in Lame ‘Arthur’
Rating: 2.0/5.0CHICAGO– There are many problems inherent in film remakes, starting with comparisons to the original source. The first “Arthur,” while not a classic, did have a warm, funny story and...
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Don’t Buy Ticket For ‘Journey 2: The Mysterious Island’
Rating: 1.0/5.0CHICAGO– If you hear an unusual sound this weekend, it may be Jules Verne, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Jonathan Swift spinning in their graves. The writers who have become an essential...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger is Back in ‘The Last Stand’
Rating: 3.0/5.0CHICAGO– With enough hair plugs, bronzer and hormone injections to float a rejuvenation clinic, Arnold Schwarzenegger is back from his political meanderings and is an action star once...
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Light, Speedy ‘Turbo’ is a Great Race for Kids
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– Summer vacation means summer animated movies, and nothing will give the kids more of a break than rooting for a snail that becomes as fast as an Indy race car. Why not put him...
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Surprisingly Weird, Wacky ‘Puerto Ricans in Paris’
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– Occasionally, a film breaks through the miasma of images, and proclaims its uniqueness by just being weird. Case in point, the strange and wacky “Puerto Ricans in Paris,” which...
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