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Chronicle’s sober story examines the danger of super power absent the super hero
May 18, 2012
By Jimmy Gillman
Chronicle (New to DVD)
20th Century Fox; 2012; 84 minutes; PG-13, for violence and language; Directed by Josh Trank; Starring: Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell, Michael B. Jordan, Michael Kelly, Ashley Hinshaw and Crystal Donna Roberts; Screenwriter(s): Max Landis
Chronicle is not the movie many will expect—this is not another simplistic variation on the X-Men or the comic book/super hero genre. In fact, Chronicle is an exceptionally knowing drama in which three very different high school seniors acquire certain super powers, but that’s where any relationship to the aforementioned film and story categories ends.
