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RICHARD ROEPER Movie Reviews

73 reviews, averaging 65.0% positive
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10 Years

Chicago Sun-Times
09/21/12 Very Good "...one of those movies that takes an overworked premise and indulges in some predictable setups, yet still manages to surprise and entertain throughout."
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21 and Over

Chicago Sun-Times
03/01/13 Weak "Imagine a Raunch-o Comedy Mix-Master blender, filled to the brim with ingredients culled from dozens of movies.... Tasteless. Even worse, unfunny."
3.

42 (2013)

Chicago Sun-Times
04/12/13 Very Good "...competent, occasionally rousing and historically respectful.... It's a mostly unexceptional film about an exceptional man."
4.

A Good Day to Die Hard

Chicago Sun-Times
02/14/13 Weak "Like the Bond movies, the 'Die Hard' films thrive on brilliantly wicked villains. In this edition, we barely know which bad guy is the main bad guy."
5.

Admission (2013)

Chicago Sun-Times
03/22/13 Moderate "Who doesn't like Tina Fey?... Then the wheels fall off and you suddenly think: I don't know if I like this person."
6.

Arthur Newman

Chicago Sun-Times
04/26/13 Good (Not Great) "...it does feel like a bit of stunt casting to have these two British actors as the very American leads in this offbeat, sometimes self-congratulatory road movie romance..."
7.

Baby On Board

Chicago Sun-Times
05/22/09 Poor "...moronically derivative... plays like an extended version of one of those infamously awful sitcoms that appear once on a network's schedule and then disappear into the pop culture vortex.... everyone behaves like aliens..."
8.

Bachelorette (2012)

Chicago Sun-Times
09/07/12 Weak "When the three main characters are so thoroughly unlikable, who are we supposed to root for, other than the person responsible for bringing us the closing credits?"
9.

Beastly

Chicago Sun-Times
03/04/11 Moderate "...a sweet, silly and chaste movie that seemed intended for girls who aren't yet ready for the glistening shirtlessness that is the 'Twilight' series."
10. 02/14/13 Good (Not Great) "...springs to life whenever Irons, Thompson or Rossum is centerstage.... The grown-ups get to spout all the juiciest lines. Problem is, this isn't their story."
11.

Black Rock

Chicago Sun-Times
05/17/13 Outstanding "...a lean and smart thriller that introduces us to one-two-three heroines and then one-two-three villains, and it's game on.... Katie Aselton is a bad-ass."
12.

Broken City

Chicago Sun-Times
01/18/13 Very Good "...a big, juicy, sometimes clunky political crime thriller that plays like a 21st century B-movie.... Is it any good? No. But yeah."
13.

Bullet to the Head

Chicago Sun-Times
02/01/13 Moderate "...an occasionally entertaining, often incomprehensible and ultimately quite average 1980s-homage mismatched buddy action pic."
14.

Detention (2012)

Chicago Sun-Times
04/13/12 Weak "What's that? Oh, yes, there are indeed actors in this movie... It's all exceedingly wry and excessively sarcastic -- and much more exhausting than entertaining."
15. 03/25/11 Very Good "...peppered with uplifting messages... the physical comedy will have the typical 10-year-old cackling with glee and the performances are nicely executed."
16.

Disconnect

Chicago Sun-Times
04/12/13 Outstanding "...struck a chord with me... even when the film follows the path we expect it to follow, it does so in a way that keeps us intensely engaged."
17.

Django Unchained

Chicago Sun-Times
12/21/12 Outstanding "...thrilling cinema.... one of the best movies Tarantino has ever done, and it's one of the best movies of the year."
18.

Emperor (2013)

Chicago Sun-Times
03/08/13 Very Good "...expertly photographed.... makes it clear this was a devastating war for both sides.... a solid and important look at a sometimes-forgotten chapter in the World War II saga."
19.

Erased (2013)

Chicago Sun-Times
05/17/13 Good (Not Great) "Eckhart does solid work... Liana Liberato shows real star potential.... The problem is with the plot, which goes from promising to murky to not particularly convincing..."
20.

Evil Dead (2013)

Chicago Sun-Times
04/05/13 Poor "I'm bored to death and sick to death of movies that seem to have one goal: How can we gross out the audience by torturing nearly every major character in the movie?"

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