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Richard Roeper

Review: Sisters

Starting with Chicago’s ImprovOlympic in the early 1990s and continuing through “Saturday Night Live” and films and even hosting the Golden Globes with terrific style, Tina Fey and Amy Poehl...

‘The Force Awakens’: A return to greatness

It’s a return to greatness. Nearly 40 years after “Star Wars” exploded the pop culture universe and practically became a religion for generations of fans, and a full decade after ...

New in theaters: Room

I’m not going to tell you “Room” is an easy film to digest. I’m not going to promise you won’t want to walk out sometime during the first hour, especially if you’re claustrophobic...

May the hype be with you

Wait a minute. There’s a new “Star Wars” movie coming out? Wow, who knew?! Answer: Everyone in the conscious universe. If “The Force Awakens” isn’t the most heavily hyp...

Review: Creed

When we met Rocky Balboa in 1977, he was a rough-edged, punch-drunk Philadelphia club fighter who worked as an enforcer for a local mobster. Rocky’s only friend was Paulie, a brut...

Review: The Good Dinosaur

“The last croc, I drowned him in my own blood.” – grizzled, scar-faced old Tyrannosaur dinosaur telling a campfire story about fending off an attack from multiple crocodiles in “The Good Din...

Review: Spotlight

Ask anyone who has worked for a newspaper to name the best movie ever made about our profession, and it’s an upset when “All the President’s Men” isn’t the first title mentioned. ...

Review: The Night Before

Even within the context of being an absurdist stoner slapstick holiday movie, “The Night Before” is so disjointed and so uneven and so unfocused, you start to feel like you’re at a party tha...

Review: Secret in Their Eyes

When Julia Roberts’ Jess is told by a friend, “You look like you’re a million years old” in “Secret in Their Eyes,” there’s not a speck of insult in the observation. It’s said wit...

Review: Sleeping With Other People

Enter the non-com. “Sleeping With Other People” is somewhat similar in tone and content to “Trainwreck,” and equally as smart and funny as the Amy Schumer summer hit. It’s a non-c...

Review: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2

If they had a concussion protocol in “The Hunger Games,” Katniss Everdeen would be forced into early retirement. In just this installment, the fourth and last chapter in the wildl...

Review: Grandma

Elle Reid is the type of person who is her own worst enemy, is smart enough to realize she’s her own worst enemy – and is going to continue being her own worst enemy until her last breath. ...