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Review of Tin Cup (1996)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Nov 1998

I can think of only one bit of Tin Cup that's beautiful, imaginative, and different, and it lasts for only a few seconds: a speech delivered…

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Review of Daisy Miller (1974)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 18 Sep 1998

More mannered than stylish, more would-be tragic than comic, the film is all surface and comes up fatally short on warmth, humor, and insight…

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Review of The Rock (1996)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 18 Sep 1998

High-octane nonsense but gives both the actors and the audience all that's needed to make this diverting--car chases, wisecracks, narrow escapes,…

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Review of Dumb and Dumber (1994)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 15 Aug 1998

A few of the bad-taste gags are funny, and Carrey's grimaces have a certain inspired delirium, but this is a long way from the social comedy…

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Review of Casper (1995)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 15 Aug 1998

It's not clear why Steven Spielberg's Amblin decided to make a live-action entertainment starring the least interesting and most saccharine…

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Review of Vanishing Point (1971)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 05 Aug 1998

While Richard Sarafian's direction of this action thriller and drive-in favorite isn't especially distinguished, the script by Cuban author…

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Review of Class of 1999 (1990)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 15 Jul 1998

The liberal pieties underlying the script become so simplistic and predominant that they ultimately deprive the characters and the story of…

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Review of The Howling (1981)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 17 Jun 1998

The film slides into its situation in a clever, fresh way, and the balance of wit and horror is well maintained throughout, though Sayles's…

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Review of The Name of the Rose (1986)

By Pat Graham (71) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 30 May 1998

You want misery? he gives you misery—dark, drear, suppurating medieval oppressiveness; monotony…

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Review of Thelma & Louise (1991)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 28 May 1998

Classic genre movies may be a scarce commodity, but this gutsy crime thriller and female buddy movie qualifies in spades…

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Review of Mercury Rising (1998)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 21 May 1998

The actors' serious faces are out of place in this hopelessly silly action conspiracy…

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Review of My Fellow Americans (1996)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 May 1998

An appalling piece of junk that tries to redo The Odd Couple and Grumpy Old Men in presidential terms…

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Review of Seven Days in May (1964)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 May 1998

John Frankenheimer directed, too much in love with technique, though he ably taps the neuroticism of Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, and Fredric March…

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Review of Pump Up the Volume (1990)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 19 Apr 1998

A clarion call for freedom and collective action both hopeful and energizing, it qualifies as a generational statement as Rebel Without a Cause…

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Review of The Evil Dead (1981)

By Pat Graham (71) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 Apr 1998

The film is ferociously kinetic and full of visual surprises, though its gut-churning reputation doesn't seem fully deserved: if anything the…

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Review of Bottle Rocket (1996)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 24 Mar 1998

Fresh, character driven, often funny, and unfashionably upbeat (as well as offbeat)…

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Review of Trespass (1992)

By Jim Hemphill (63) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 21 Mar 1998

The simple fact is that in Trespass one finds perfect unity between form and content, to the point that they become indistinguishable…

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Review of Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 20 Mar 1998

Francis Coppola's ambitious 1992 version brings back the novel's multiple narrators, leading to a somewhat dispersed and overcrowded story…

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Review of The Krays (1990)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 19 Mar 1998

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

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Review of Soul Food (1997)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 03 Mar 1998

Director George Tillman Jr.'s screenplay covers an array of events in the characters' lives so replete with drama it could easily be too much,…

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