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Movie Reviews by Jonathan Rosenbaum - Page 71 of 83

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Review of American Beauty (1999)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 29 Jun 2001

A brilliant satirical diagnosis of what's most screwed up about life in this country, especially when it comes to sexual frustration and kiddie porn…

Review of Scrooged (1988)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 22 Jun 2001

Tacky in the extreme, this self-congratulatory 1988 film is an exercise in hypocrisy, indulging every form of Christmas exploitation that it…

Review of Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 12 Jun 2001

Loaded with facile social themes, opaque characters, pointlessly intricate flashbacks, and inflated technique…

Review of Moonstruck (1987)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Jun 2001

The broad Italian family humor gets so thick at times that you could cut it with a bread knife…

Review of Basquiat (1996)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 03 Jun 2001

It's also quite energetic -- there isn't a boring shot anywhere, and writer-director Schnabel is clearly enjoying himself as he plays with…

Review of Maurice (1987)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jun 2001

The dissection of Edwardian repression never gets beyond the dutiful, tasteful obviousness of a BBC miniseries…

Review of The Fugitive (1993)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 17 May 2001

Though it's a good half hour too long, this belated, overblown spin-off of the 60s TV show otherwise adds up to a pretty good suspense thriller…

Review of Gladiator (2000)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 05 May 2001

The script by producer David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson is serviceable but not exactly inspired…

Review of La Chienne (1931)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 25 Apr 2001

Jean Renoir's first sound feature (1931) and one of his best…

Review of Cry, the Beloved Country (1995)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 20 Apr 2001

Directed by Darrell Roodt from a screenplay by Ron Harwood, this has a strong sense of dignity about its characters, and Jones and Harris are…

Review of BASEketball (1998)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 04 Apr 2001

I was bored well before the end, but found the first half hour pretty funny…

Review of Two Moon Junction (1988)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Apr 2001

Thematically, this has a lot to do with the sexiness of class difference and the hypocrisy of marriage and double standards, although, as often…

Review of Autumn Almanac (1984)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 13 Feb 2001

The mise en scene often seems to be composed in counterpoint to the action, but the drama itself (whose Strindbergian power and sexual conflicts…

Review of Elephant Walk (1954)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 13 Feb 2001

I was 11 when I saw William Dieterle's 1954 adaptation of the Robert Standish novel Elephant Walk…

Review of Love and Death on Long Island (1998)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 12 Feb 2001

A witty, canny meditation on the power of pop culture in general and the rationalizations of cinephilia and film criticism in particular…

Review of Shadow of the Vampire (2000)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 07 Feb 2001

This stupid and demeaning fantasy about the shooting of F.W…

Review of Barb Wire (1996)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 27 Jan 2001

Its main source is a comic book, but it might as well be a computer…

Review of The Piano (1993)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 19 Jan 2001

Sweetie and An Angel at My Table have taught us to expect startling as well as beautiful things from Jane Campion, and this assured and provocative…

Review of Dark Days (2000)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 Jan 2001

An eye-opening tale of how part of our population lives, and as an authentic image of material suffering it makes something like Lars von Trier's…

Review of An Ideal Husband (1999)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 27 Dec 2000

The only problem I was faced with was trying to understand what exactly it was that I enjoyed, and how this movie differed from the play I'd read…

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