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Review of Romeo Must Die (2000)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 13 Apr 2016

The hinted romance, featuring Aaliyah, makes for some decent drama and some fine comedy…

Review of Tea with Mussolini (1999)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Apr 2016

Cher generates much of the movie's limited interest with her powerful screen presence, and Maggie Smith's skill as a diplomat's widow who believes…

Review of I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 20 Mar 2016

This 1998 sequel seems almost deliberately designed to disappoint--our enjoyment is supposed to lie in making fun of the obvious red herrings,…

Review of Two Can Play That Game (2001)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 Feb 2016

Writer-director Mark Brown ruptures and restores the realism in this romantic comedy with ease, dispensing earnest wisdom with a little tongue…

Review of A Map of the World (1999)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 22 Jan 2016

This eerily dry drama bravely attempts to show, without resorting to the literal staging of contradictory scenarios, how much perceptions of…

Review of Love Stinks (1999)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 13 Jan 2016

Exploits all the cliches about shrewish women and pussy-whipped men without achieving satire…

Review of Beloved (1998)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 04 Jan 2016

This terrifyingly beautiful movie blends metaphor and stark social commentary to achieve a spontaneous grace…

Review of Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 04 Jan 2016

Mitchell, who also directed and wrote the screenplay, originally created this glorious rock opera for the stage with composer-lyricist Stephen Trask…

Review of The Bachelor (1999)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 28 Dec 2015

Viewers have almost two hours to become thoroughly disgusted…

Review of Woman on Top (2000)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 26 Nov 2015

This gently satirical farce is atmospheric when dabbling in religion--the chef turns to spiritual magic to defuse her passion for her husband--and…

Review of Mickey Blue Eyes (1999)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 11 Nov 2015

Many of the gags rely on the incongruity of Grant's nervous, cultured character posing as an Italian-American stereotype, but they're subverted…

Review of Shakespeare in Love (1998)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 19 Oct 2015

It's easy to suspend disbelief and embrace this historically creative fiction, whose clever relationship to what's known and what's unresolved…

Review of A Walk to Remember (2002)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 11 Oct 2015

This realist fairy tale of impossible love has a fair amount of nuance and charm…

Review of Big Daddy (1999)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Oct 2015

Sandler is disarming and compelling as Sonny…

Review of Hart's War (2002)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 Sep 2015

A mildly psychological suspense thriller with military trappings…

Review of Snow Day (2000)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 27 Aug 2015

This grasping comedy targets kids of all ages but will please no one as it exploits exhausted ideas about adolescence…

Review of Kiss of the Dragon (2001)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 21 Aug 2015

The new sexism -- the old sexism plus the idea that everything is ironic -- is getting old…

Review of Blast from the Past (1999)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 15 Jul 2015

Demands that we see as coincidental if not ironic the ease with which Fraser cuts a rug at a swing club when he's hopelessly naive about everything…

Review of The General's Daughter (1999)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 Jun 2015

The feminist veneer is the most deeply disturbing part of this callow thriller, whose fetishizing of a dead woman's body (and a live woman's…

Review of Twin Falls Idaho (1999)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 Apr 2015

With its persuasive special effects, gentle pace, and more expressionistic than surreal production design, this serious yet far from ponderous…

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