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Review of Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 23 Dec 1993

This story of a party girl (Audrey Hepburn) in love with a gigolo (George Peppard) allows Edwards to create a very handsome film, with impeccable…

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Review of Cat People (1982)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 22 Dec 1993

Once again, Schrader tries to elevate a set of pimply sexual hang-ups to the level of Wagnerian opera; if this 1985 film were any heavier,…

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Review of Paris, Texas (1984)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 30 Oct 1993

Like Wenders's other road movies, this is largely about the spaces between people and the words they speak—Antonioni updated and infused…

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Review of Dead Again (1991)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Sep 1993

Loads of fun even if it's ultimately strangled by its excesses…

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Review of The Black Hole (1979)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Sep 1993

Gary Nelson's direction is very bad, the writing is weak, and the acting campy at best—but Peter Ellenshaw's production design strikes the…

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Review of Big Top Pee-wee (1988)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 19 Aug 1993

While the level of imagination here is scaled to the bite-size dimensions of TV, the sense of an alternate universe felt in Herman's TV show…

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Review of Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Aug 1993

Misogynistic claptrap about a divorced husband (Dustin Hoffman) fighting for the custody of and learning to cope with his little boy (Justin…

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Review of Conan the Barbarian (1982)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 18 Jul 1993

Milius has nothing to say: this 1982 film only hints at the romantic heroics of The Wind and the Lion and has none of the personal quality…

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Review of Heaven Help Us (1985)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Jul 1993

A pleasant surprise, Michael Dinner's film manages a mild redemption of the conventions of the horny teenager movie by taking its characters…

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Review of The Maltese Falcon (1941)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 07 Jun 1993

The Maltese Falcon is really a triumph of casting and wonderfully suggestive character detail; the visual style, with its exaggerated vertical…

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Review of The Grifters (1990)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 Apr 1993

While the filmmakers manage to keep things interesting (sexy, kinky, and ambiguous) much of the time, the self-conscious piety that Frears…

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Review of Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 27 Mar 1993

The fourth THIN MAN film isn't nearly as good as the first ones, but it has its own rewards, thanks to the inimitable by-play of Powell and Loy…

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Review of High Noon (1952)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 15 Mar 1993

Some of the results ring false, but the memorable theme song and some equally memorable character acting (by Thomas Mitchell and Lon Chaney…

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Review of A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Mar 1993

Crichton keeps the laughs coming with infectious energy…

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Review of Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 07 Feb 1993

The characters are gently and warmly rendered, and a climactic action sequence involving an unmoored dirigible hints at the stately grandiosity…

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Review of Rollerball (1975)

By Don Druker (117) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 04 Jan 1993

Lifeless, uninspired, and crammed with enough hints of intellectual consistency to give the socially conscious critical establishment shivers…

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Review of The Mosquito Coast (1986)

By Pat Graham (71) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 29 Dec 1992

Peter Weir's 1986 adaptation of Paul Theroux's best-selling novel is literally that - an adaptation without much character of its own…

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Review of They Live (1988)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 17 Nov 1992

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 Stick (1985)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 04 Nov 1992

Reynolds turns the emphasis from the action scenes to the depressed emotional state of his strangely disengaged protagonist, and the result…

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Review of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 22 Oct 1992

The crazy color schemes and visual effects once made this a popular head picture, though you'd have to be stoned to tolerate the score, which…

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