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Richard Roeper, a Sun-Times contributor since 1987 and a Chicago native, is the author of seven books and the former co-host of "Ebert & Roeper and the Movies." He is the film critic for ABC-7’s "Windy City Live" and a regular contributor to "The Roe Conn Show" on WGN-AM (720).

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‘Tom of Your Life’: In mere hours, a boy becomes man in a lovely indie

With hope and humor, nurse heads to Chicago to save a kid aging four years every hour.

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‘Robin’s Wish’ explains the undiagnosed condition that tormented Robin Williams

In the documentary, the comedian’s widow and friends open up about his agonizing final years. His Lewy body dementia diagnosis was made only after his death.

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Como un superhéroe de fantasía o un gigante en la vida real, Chadwick Boseman dominaba la pantalla

El poderoso actor, que murió el viernes a los 43 años, hizo gran parte de su mejor trabajo después de un diagnóstico no revelado de cáncer de colon en fase III.

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As real-life giants or a fantasy superhero, Chadwick Boseman commanded the screen

The powerful actor, who died Friday at 43, did much of his best work after his undisclosed diagnosis of Stage III colon cancer.

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La nueva película ‘Tenet’, una explosión alucinante

Esta es una experiencia cinematográfica visualmente impresionante que merece ser vista (en el entorno más seguro posible, por supuesto) en la pantalla más grande que pueda encontrar.

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‘Get Duked!’: Odds of laughing at ‘Hunger Games’ twist are mostly in your favor

Action comedy mostly succeeds in finding the humor in Scottish stoners running from hunters.

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‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’: A meet-the-parents road trip turns trippy

Director Charlie Kaufman gives a novel his usual peculiar spin in one of the year’s most creative films.

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‘Bill & Ted Face the Music’: Being excellent is infrequent in the belated threequel

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter’s musical slackers, now middle-aged, travel time with little payoff.

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Beautiful ‘Fatima’ has faith in the children who said they saw the Virgin Mary

The moving film starring Sonia Braga and Harvey Keitel depicts the skepticism of a 10-year-old’s mother, mayor and priest. In the flourishing faith-based movie genre, this is one of the better ones.

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Sharp documentary ‘#Unfit’ makes a case that Donald Trump suffers multiple mental disorders

The illuminating film, more personal than political, argues that psychiatrists have a duty to speak out on the president’s more disturbing behavior