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Review of Pink Cadillac (1989)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 04 May 2008

Not all of these ideas are successfully dramatized, and you may have trouble believing in most of the characters, but as a deeply personal…

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Review of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 04 May 2008

The film betrays no human impulse higher than that of a ten-year-old boy trying to gross out his baby sister by dangling a dead worm in her face…

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Review of The Big Chill (1983)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 04 May 2008

There is no place for depth or nuance in this slickly engineered complacency machine, which roars along at a single tone and pace, neatly dispelling…

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Review of The Night of the Iguana (1964)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 04 May 2008

No one but Tennessee Williams could have concocted it, but anyone other than John Huston should have directed it…

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Review of Moolaadé (2004)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 May 2008

This is a masterwork by Ousmane Sembene, the 81-year-old father of African cinema and one of Senegal's greatest novelists…

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Review of Standard Operating Procedure (2008)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 May 2008

This film by the masterful Errol Morris gets closer to the actual events than any of them, with probing interviews of soldiers who were involved…

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Review of Made of Honor (2008)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 May 2008

Patrick Dempsey and Michelle Monaghan make an agreeable pair in this above-average comedy, another go-round for the reliable premise of longtime…

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Review of Then She Found Me (2007)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 May 2008

This adaptation of an Elinor Lipman novel is Hunt's feature directing debut, and under the circumstances she might have been wiser to give…

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Review of Mad Money (2008)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 May 2008

This lame comedy was adapted from a recent British TV movie, though its (quite literal) money shots of the women squealing and hurling cash…

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Review of Se7en (1995)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 27 Apr 2008

One can already tell that this film is on to something special during the opening credits…

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Review of The Player (1992)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 27 Apr 2008

[It's] supposed to be scathing, but the pleasure it affords is like what you get from watching the Oscars: celebrity spotting and in-jokes…

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Review of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 27 Apr 2008

Part of the idea here was to play in the ambiguous zones where Las Vegas tackiness, LSD hallucinations, Gilliam beasties, and lots of vomit…

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Review of Changing Lanes (2002)

By Sergio Mims (2) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 26 Apr 2008

Jackson's portrait of impotent rage is tremendous, and Affleck, who drops his usual smugness, is surprisingly good…

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Review of Last Holiday (2006)

By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 26 Apr 2008

Likable as she is, Latifah can't overcome a tortured mistaken-identity plot, buffoonery on the ski slopes, and enough saccharine dialogue to…

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Review of Tupac: Resurrection (2003)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 25 Apr 2008

Making Shakur the narrator works pretty well at first...But once he becomes an overnight star at age 20, his relentless self-articulation to…

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Review of The Life Before Her Eyes (2007)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 24 Apr 2008

Perelman never overcomes the disjuncture of having two familiar actresses play the same grown character, and despite the endless crosscutting,…

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Review of Bomb It (2007)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 24 Apr 2008

Genuinely global, multicultural, and multilingual in its urban perspectives…

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Review of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008)

By Reece Pendleton (27) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 24 Apr 2008

A straightforward account of the debate between evolutionists and ID proponents might have been both entertaining and enlightening; instead…

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Review of Woman on the Beach (2006)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 24 Apr 2008

Reminiscent of Godard's Contempt, but writer-director Hong Sang-soo--South Korea's foremost chronicler of romantic maneuvering--is more aptly…

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Review of Broken Flowers (2005)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 24 Apr 2008

Jarmusch's narrative setups are often artificial and implausible, but his stories are usually charming anyway because the sense of character…

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