Chicago Tribune movie reviews
November 24, 2009
Movie review: 'Old Dogs'
These Disney ‘Dogs’ have fleas
Movie review: 'Ninja Assassin'
Bloodbath drowns style in witless ninja thriller
Movie review: 'Fantastic Mr. Fox'
‘Fox’ plot clever, not great
Movie review: 'The Road'
Sentimental ‘Road’ true to its grim source material
Movie review: 'Red Cliff'
Woo brings genres aplenty to ‘Cliff’
Movie review: 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon'
Actually pretty good
Movie review: 'Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans'
Not so much a remake as a fever dream
Movie review: 'The Blind Side'
Redemption tale is wildly out of focus
Movie review: 'Planet 51'
Humans-as-aliens premise barely gets off the ground
Movie review: 'The Messenger'
Tough jobs, whatever the war
Movie review: '2012'
Emmerich is my kind of hack
Movie review: 'Pirate Radio'
Comedy has a killer soundtrack from the ’60s
Movie review: 'Gentlemen Broncos'
‘Dynamite’ crew’s latest lacking in kick
Movie review: 'The House of the Devil'
The hair isn't the only thing scary in this totally '80s horror-thriller
Movie review: 'The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day'
Not a great day for the Irish
Movie review: 'Ten9Eight: Shoot for the Moon'
Stories deserve a better telling
Movie review: 'Ong Bak 2: The Beginning'
In martial arts incubator, only title, star are familiar
Movie review: 'Skin'
A family divided by race
Movie review: 'Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire'
Strong ensemble serves story of a teenage Job
Movie review: 'The Box'
Not enough story to fill a bloated, chaotic ‘Box’
Movie review: 'The Men Who Stare at Goats'
Clooney and his trippy cohort make the most of a thin plot
Movie review: 'Disney's A Christmas Carol'
Dickens’ classic tale shines through somewhat improved motion-capture treatment
Movie review: 'The Fourth Kind'
An encounter to avoid
Movie review: '(Untitled)'
Twee down to its title, film misses the art of the plot
Movie review: 'Michael Jackson's This Is It'
A heavily lawyered portrait of an artist
Movie review: '21 and a Wakeup'
Tragically inept drama
Movie review: 'Harmony and Me'
Wanders here and there, wittily
Movie review: 'Bronson'
Tom Hardy is remarkable
Movie review: 'The Yes Men Fix the World'
You may side with the interviewer, not the prankster
Movie review: 'Labor Day'
A middling offering
Movie review: 'Loren Cass'
Tedious, dispiriting stuff
Movie review: 'Amelia'
Little lift in aviatrix’s biopic
Movie review: 'An Education'
Carey Mulligan charms the spotlight in Nick Hornby adaptation
Movie review: 'Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant'
Freaks, geeks and vamps not enough for ‘Cirque’
Movie review: 'Astro Boy'
This boy’s back with a bang
Movie review: 'Antichrist'
Von Trier balances the beautiful and grotesque
Movie review: 'Where the Wild Things Are'
A nervy and breathtaking achievement
Movie review: 'Law Abiding Citizen'
Vigilante ‘Citizen’ trades suspense for slasher tropes
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