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Review of Defiance (1980)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 18 Nov 2000

The best performance, because it's more nuanced, is by Liev Schreiber…

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Review of The Pelican Brief (1993)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 17 Nov 2000

By casting attractive stars in the leads, by finding the right visual look, by underlining the action with brooding, ominously sad music, a…

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Review of Les Misérables (1998)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 12 Nov 2000

Les Miserables is like a perfectly respectable Classics Illustrated version of the Victor Hugo novel…

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Review of Limbo (1999)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 11 Nov 2000

Sayles has started with a domestic comedy, and led us unswervingly into the heart of darkness…

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Review of Frantic (1988)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 02 Nov 2000

Even with its excesses, Frantic is a reminder of how absorbing a good thriller can be…

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Review of Six Pack (1982)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 02 Nov 2000

This is a fresh and cheerful movie with a goofy sense of humor and a good ear for how teenagers talk…

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Review of Three Colors: White (1994)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 30 Oct 2000

All of these films approach their subjects with such irony that we cannot take them at face value; White is the anti-comedy, in between the…

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Review of Children of a Lesser God (1986)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 26 Oct 2000

By telling the whole story from Hurt's point of view, the movie makes the woman into the stubborn object, the challenge, the problem, which…

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Review of EverAfter (1998)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 24 Oct 2000

Here, as the little cinder girl, she is able to at last put aside her bedraggled losers and flower as a fresh young beauty, and she brings…

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Review of Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)

By Lloyd Sachs (17) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 17 Oct 2000

A remarkably assured comedy-drama of domestic life in Taiwan, Ang Lee's EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN explores how families use meals and other rituals…

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Review of Stella (1990)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 14 Oct 2000

Stella is the kind of movie they used to call a tearjerker, and we might as well go ahead and still call it that, because all around me at…

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Review of The Real Blonde (1998)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 11 Oct 2000

A meandering movie that usually meanders in entertaining directions…

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Review of After Dark, My Sweet (1990)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 09 Oct 2000

One of the purest and most uncompromising of modern films noir. It captures above all the lonely, exhausted lives of its characters…

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Review of Doctor Zhivago (1965)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 13 Sep 2000

So, yes, it's soppy and manipulative and mushy. But that train looks real enough to ride…

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Review of Bugsy Malone (1976)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 30 Aug 2000

In an uncanny way the movie works as a gangster movie and we remember that the old Bogart and Cagney classics had a childlike innocence, too…

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Review of Simply Irresistible (1999)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 26 Aug 2000

Old-fashioned and obvious, yes, like a featherweight comedy from the 1950s. But that's the charm…

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Review of Cry-Baby (1990)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 26 Aug 2000

It is only now that I am in a condition to appreciate the 1950s…

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Review of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 26 Aug 2000

A movie that seems consumed with a desire to push us too far…

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Review of Dead of Winter (1987)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 26 Aug 2000

It's easy to pick holes in movies like this, to find the inconsistencies and the oversights and say the movie's no good because we're smarter…

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Review of The Goonies (1985)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 18 Aug 2000

The Goonies, like Gremlins, shows that Spielberg and his directors are absolute masters of how to excite and involve an audience. E.T…

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