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Review of Dogville (2003)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 31 Aug 2018

Bored me for most of its 178 minutes and then infuriated me with its cheap cynicism once it belatedly became interesting--which may be a tribute…

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Review of The Kid & I (2005)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 13 Aug 2018

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis must have a soft spot for the disabled kids of billionaires, because both have cameos near the end…

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Review of The Principal (1987)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Mar 2018

All in all, an entertaining (if ideologically incoherent) response to the valorization of greed in our midst, with lots of Rambo-esque violence…

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Review of Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 24 Feb 2018

Now that Robin Williams has been emasculated--dangerously schizoid comic turned into nice-guy movie star--it isn't too surprising that a commercial…

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Review of Black Book (2006)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 07 Feb 2018

Like much of Verhoeven's best work, it's shamelessly melodramatic, but in its dark moral complexities it puts Schindler's List to shame…

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Review of Appaloosa (2008)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 07 Feb 2018

This isn't a visionary western like The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005), but in its own quiet way it delivers the goods…

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Review of Michael (1996)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Feb 2018

Before this turns to total mush, it's a quirky, fitfully effective fantasy periodically enlivened by the cast…

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Review of The Good Son (1993)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 31 Jan 2018

There's wonderful use made of a Maine port town, and Ruben gets a dizzying thrill or two out of overhead shots, but the conceptual overload…

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Review of Mr. Jones (1993)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 28 Jan 2018

Another chapter in the ongoing struggle between the talented Mike Figgis (Stormy Monday, Internal Affairs, Liebestraum) and studio recutters…

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Review of Sense and Sensibility (1995)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Jan 2018

I can't say I remembered this 1995 feature too clearly a couple of days later; but I certainly had a good time as I watched it…

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Review of Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 Jan 2018

For all its minimalism, Tsai Ming-liang's 81-minute masterpiece manages to be many things at once…

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Review of Brothers of the Head (2006)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 29 Dec 2017

Directors Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe (Lost in La Mancha) are too preoccupied with hip cleverness to have much else on their minds, and the…

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Review of Kitchen Stories (2003)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 29 Dec 2017

The humor is a bit dry for my taste, but director Bent Hamer and his actors know what they're doing every step of the way…

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Review of The Time Machine (2002)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Dec 2017

As old-fashioned movie fun, this isn't bad, even -- especially…

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Review of Iraq in Fragments (2006)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Dec 2017

Much as Emile de Antonio's neglected In the Year of the Pig (1968) may be the only major documentary about Vietnam that actually considers…

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Review of State and Main (2000)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 19 Dec 2017

I laughed a lot at the anti-Hollywood humor and generally had a fine time, in spite of the holier-than-thou hypocrisy that makes this movie…

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Review of High Art (1998)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 19 Dec 2017

As storytelling it isn'’t always as clean as it might be, but this 1998 first feature by writer-director Lisa Cholodenko is an interesting…

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Review of The Devil's Advocate (1997)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Dec 2017

God save us when director Taylor Hackford decides to become a metaphysician and Al Pacino decides to demonstrate his genius by reading the…

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Review of Light It Up (1999)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 21 Nov 2017

The passionate and carnivalesque sense of politics reminded me at times of Dog Day Afternoon, but despite the absence of cynicism this is a…

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Review of Paper Clips (2004)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Nov 2017

It's a story worth telling, though once the participants and the filmmakers start basking in their virtue, the material begins to feel overextended…

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