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Movie Reviews by Jonathan Rosenbaum - Page 80 of 83

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Review of High Hopes (1989)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Sep 1995

Leigh displays a passionate affection for and commitment to his leading characters that never precludes a critical distance…

Review of Above the Law (1988)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 31 Aug 1995

The conceit gets a little out of hand after one of the angels falls in love with the trapeze artist and decides to become human; but prior…

Review of Valmont (1989)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 21 Aug 1995

The results are too pretty and well acted to be a total washout, but the fascination with evil and power that gives the novel intensity is…

Review of This Boy's Life (1993)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Aug 1995

The leads work overtime to make their characters and their relationships pungent, believable, and moving (though with regard to the rest of…

Review of Cape Fear (1991)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 31 Jul 1995

Even as a simple genre picture it works only in fits and starts…

Review of The Gunfighter (1950)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Jun 1995

One of the earliest and best antiwesterns, made before the subgenre became self-conscious about critiquing the standard myths…

Review of The Believers (1987)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 11 Jun 1995

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

Review of Newsies (1992)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 May 1995

A Disney musical with an undistinguished score (Alan Menken and Jack Feldman), fair to middling choreography (Kenny Ortega and Peggy Holmes),…

Review of The Hustler (1961)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Apr 1995

A postnoir melodrama with metaphysical trimmings, it does remarkable things with mood and pacing, and the two matches with Gleason as Minnesota…

Review of Red Heat (1988)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Apr 1995

Thanks to a fairly good script, this thriller about a Soviet cop sent to Chicago to apprehend a Soviet drug dealer is a respectable enough…

Review of Blue Chips (1994)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 21 Nov 1994

The problem with this film's earnest script about corruption in college basketball is that the usually witty Ron Shelton (Bull Durham, White…

Review of THX 1138 (1971)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 29 Jul 1994

The surprising thing about George Lucas's first feature (1971), a dystopian SF parable now digitally enhanced and expanded by five minutes,…

Review of Turner & Hooch (1989)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 21 Jul 1994

Dog slobber enthusiasts (as well as fans of dog farts) will have a field day…

Review of Top Secret! (1984)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 May 1994

This is the least well-known of the madcap satirical comedies of Jim Abrahams and David and Jerry Zucker (Airplane…

Review of The New Kids (1985)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 20 Feb 1994

The film is full of relevant insights into the kinds of compromises, trade-offs, and combinations of skills and personalities that produce…

Review of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 31 Dec 1993

The results are high-spirited, with nice ensemble work from Almodovar's team of regulars, but the playlike structure (originally derived from…

Review of Paris, Texas (1984)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 30 Oct 1993

Like Wenders's other road movies, this is largely about the spaces between people and the words they speak—Antonioni updated and infused…

Review of Dead Again (1991)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Sep 1993

Loads of fun even if it's ultimately strangled by its excesses…

Review of Big Top Pee-wee (1988)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 19 Aug 1993

While the level of imagination here is scaled to the bite-size dimensions of TV, the sense of an alternate universe felt in Herman's TV show…

Review of Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Aug 1993

Misogynistic claptrap about a divorced husband (Dustin Hoffman) fighting for the custody of and learning to cope with his little boy (Justin…

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