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‘When Did You Last See Your Father?’ a Family Affair Between Colin Firth, Jim...
Rating: 3.0/5.0CHICAGO– With Father’s Day upon us, what better time to take in a film about a dysfunctional relationship between a father and a son?The tongue-tying title “When Did You Last See Your...
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Despite Rollercoaster Energy, ‘Mamma Mia!’ Bellows Beloved ABBA Vocals With...
Rating: 3.0/5.0CHICAGO– While it’d be embellishment to say you’d have the time of your life at the new musical film “Mamma Mia!,” any dancing queen or an admirer of seeing Pierce Brosnan croon a tune...
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Colin Firth Plays a Wistful Game of Solitaire in ‘A Single Man’
Rating: 4.5/5.0CHICAGO– There is a certain madness in the shock of grieving over a loved one who has passed that manifests itself in particular ways. Colin Firth interprets those emotions intuitively...
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Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush Star in Confident ‘The King’s Speech’
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– Tom Hooper’s “The King’s Speech” has been barreling through the awards season with a number of significant nominations, including six from the Chicago Film Critics Association...
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Stoic Gary Oldman Uncovers ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– Espionage sure isn’t like it used to be. The new film “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” is set during the Cold War period of the early 1970s, when lines were drawn by their...
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Phony Emotional Connections Trip Up ‘Arthur Newman’
Rating: 2.0/5.0CHICAGO– In what could be subtitled, “The Challenge of American Accents,” the new release “Arthur Newman” has a laugh-inducing U.S. inflection face-off between Brits Colin Firth and...
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