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Review of Audition (2000)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 28 Dec 2000

Though I hate to ruin the complex experience of following a rather calm story about a lonely widower as it becomes something else, I feel obliged…

Review of Home Fries (1998)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 Nov 2000

Too dry to be very funny and too contrived to be outrageous, this movie has a tone so unusual it almost seems to have none at all…

Review of Pitch Black (2000)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 22 Aug 2000

Stylishly realized, but its striking cinematography, nontraditional editing, and consistently reflexive use of genre conceits add up as methodically…

Review of Anastasia (1997)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 19 Jul 2000

A story that holds little suspense; we know exactly how happily this animated musical will end--and the wait isn't very diverting…

Review of A Night at the Roxbury (1998)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 04 Jul 2000

Two obnoxious, swaggering brothers -- whose sexual naivete is supposed to make them endearing as well as pathetic -- find happiness in this…

Review of Screwed (2000)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 24 Jun 2000

First-time directors Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski must have written the script for this comedy when they were about 12--and not changed…

Review of What Dreams May Come (1998)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 19 May 2000

An effects vehicle disguised as a metaphysical meditation (or a metaphysical meditation disguised as an effects vehicle…

Review of Happy, Texas (1999)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Apr 2000

Its charm and humor will be overshadowed for some by the exploitation of gay stereotypes--which is ironic, since their arch usage ultimately…

Review of Very Bad Things (1998)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 Apr 2000

As the characters behave with symbolic excess in situations designed to provoke their bigotry and self-interest, superficial black comedy periodically…

Review of 3 Strikes (2000)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 20 Mar 2000

For every jab at hypocrisy in law enforcement or in the media's crime coverage...there's a scene's worth of uninflected scatology or misogyny…

Review of Whity (1971)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jan 2000

Fassbinder's provocative 1970 meditation on race and class…

Review of Habit (1997)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jan 2000

Sam's suspicion that Anna is a vampire because she's anorectic, reticent, and only comes out at night prompts his best buddy to observe that…

Review of Habit (1981)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jan 2000

Sam's suspicion that Anna is a vampire because she's anorectic, reticent, and only comes out at night prompts his best buddy to observe that…

Review of Spawn (1997)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 31 Dec 1999

This hopelessly redundant action gross-out aspires to a form of hip vacuousness--and may achieve it…

Review of Seven Years in Tibet (1997)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 17 Dec 1999

This moving story is full of breathtaking compositions, gorgeous spectacle, and inspiring philosophies articulated by sympathetic figures…

Review of Double Jeopardy (1999)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 Oct 1999

In this inept thriller...the script is a coloring book, and the director's careful to stay within the lines…

Review of On the Ropes (1999)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 13 Oct 1999

The material is powerful--one boxer has been accused of a crime and the trial conflicts with a crucial competition--but much of it feels predigested,…

Review of Simon Birch (1998)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 12 Aug 1999

This friendly, briefly exciting story (1998), inspired by John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, achieves a nice balance between caricature…

Review of Alien Resurrection (1997)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Aug 1999

Whedon and director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Delicatessen) bend over so far backward to make Weaver's and Ryder's roles beefy that they end up mocking…

Review of Jungle 2 Jungle (1997)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Jun 1999

The humor is often predictable--minor characters are stereotyped only to be demeaned for easy laughs--but the movie impressively fulfills its…

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