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Review of The Princess Bride (1987)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 30 Oct 1999

Not even the crude ethnic humor--Billy Crystal's Mel Brooks-ish Miracle Max--pricks the dream bubble, and the spirited cast has a field day…

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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…

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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,…

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Review of Fade to Black (1980)

By Peter Margasak (7) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Oct 1999

Expect nothing but pure showbiz and you won't be disappointed…

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Review of Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 Sep 1999

This deserves to be seen and cherished for at least a couple of reasons: first for Joanne Woodward's exquisitely multilayered and nuanced performance…

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Review of A Civil Action (1998)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Sep 1999

A multifaceted misfire from writer-director Steven Zaillian…

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Review of Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 28 Aug 1999

As in The Human Factor, Preminger approaches the mystery of human irrationality and emotion through logic and detachment; the effect is stingingly…

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Review of Going in Style (1979)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 25 Aug 1999

The integrity of his performance overcomes the formlessness of the narration, turning this loose study into something solid and affecting…

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Review of What About Bob? (1991)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 25 Aug 1999

The concept itself is so strong - particularly as a revenge fantasy for anyone who's ever resented hypocritical exploitative shrinks - that…

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Review of The Source (1999)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 19 Aug 1999

Documentary filmmaker Chuck Workman has a slick and entertaining way of stitching together old footage and practically no analytical or historical…

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Review of The Ninth Configuration (1980)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 Aug 1999

Demented disquisitions on Catholic theology vie for supremacy with camp humor and horror-movie conventions, leading to a conclusion that somehow…

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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…

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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…

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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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Review of Paradise Road (1997)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 17 Jun 1999

But the inspirational aspects of the tale--which mainly has to do with the determination of Close to form a vocal orchestra at the camp, despite…

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Review of The Sweet Hereafter (1997)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 Jun 1999

The power and reach of this undertaking are formidable…

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Review of Suburbia (1984)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Jun 1999

Nevertheless, the cast of mainly unknowns is so good, and Linklater is so adept at playing them off one another, that the two-hour running…

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Review of No Small Affair (1984)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 04 Jun 1999

Francis Ford Coppola's gang film is as moony about death as One From the Heart was over romance; the film is unremitting in its morbid sentimentality,…

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Review of Street Smart (1987)

By Henry Sheehan (16) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 04 Jun 1999

Director Jerry Schatzberg has made a penetrating study of human relations--racial and sexual--within a sharply observed social framework…

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Review of Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)

By Don Druker (117) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 May 1999

The plot is typical fluff—Kelly and Sinatra join Esther Williams's baseball team at the turn of the century—but the production values are,…

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