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Review of Star Wars (1977)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jan 2000

If you want to see the movie that made mild diversion for ten-year-old boys the model of commercial filmmaking, ruling out nuanced characterization…

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Review of Men in Black (1934)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jan 2000

Don't expect any psychological depth here, but the cool wit and fun…

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Review of Dancer in the Dark (2000)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jan 2000

Selma asks for so little, complains so seldom, and is in such perpetual denial about her problems that I find her virtually indigestible as…

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Review of Almost Famous (2000)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jan 2000

This has much of the warmth and feeling for adolescence that Crowe displayed in his first feature (Say Anything), though the slick showboating…

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Review of Titanic (1997)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jan 2000

All things considered, Titanic is old-fashioned epic filmmaking that carries a wallop…

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Review of Mission: Impossible (1996)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jan 2000

Every effect is so calculated that only the conscious minds of filmmakers and viewers are engaged--and not by very much or for very long…

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Review of Trainspotting (1996)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jan 2000

Far from nihilistic, though certainly calculated to butt up against various puritanical norms, [the film is a] feel-good jaunt about young…

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Review of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jan 2000

Not bad for a toy commercial, and the SF settings, however familiar, are even more impressive than the gadgets and beasties…

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Review of The Crucible (1996)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jan 2000

The virtue of this play and the film of this play is that many readings and meanings are possible…

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Review of Allegro non troppo (1976)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jan 2000

It's not only a hilarious send-up of Disney's excesses but a splendid cartoon feature in its own right -- funny and imaginative and lively…

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Review of The Patriot (2000)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jan 2000

Reflects our wish to redeem ourselves through sacrifice…

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Review of Taxi Driver (1976)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jan 2000

Perhaps the most formally ravishing-as well as the most morally and ideologically problematic-film ever directed by Martin Scorsese…

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Review of Mulan (1998)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jan 2000

The most self-assured and by all indications the most successful Disney 'toon in years…

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Review of Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jan 2000

This is personal filmmaking as well as dream poetry of the kind most movie commerce has ground underfoot, and if a better studio release comes…

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Review of Fargo (1996)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jan 2000

Whether these characters are lovable or detestable, they're lovable or detestable in a TV way -- defined by a minimal set of traits that are…

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Review of Small Soldiers (1998)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jan 2000

I can't think of a Hollywood entertainment I've enjoyed as much all year, and both audiences I saw the movie with seemed delighted as well…

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Review of Harry and Tonto (1974)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jan 2000

You may find much of this, despite the apparent sincerity, too cutesy and self-satisfied for its own good…

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Review of The Day of the Locust (1975)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jan 2000

A painfully misconceived reduction and simplification by writer Waldo Salt and director John Schlesinger of the great Nathanael West novel…

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Review of Le Samouraï (1967)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jan 2000

Le samourai expresses a kind of loneliness to be sure, but it's that of a teenage male dreaming about Hollywood movies and their accoutrements…

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Review of The Last Tycoon (1976)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jan 2000

Elia Kazan now admits that he directed this adaptation, his last Hollywood film, for the money. Unfortunately, it looks it…

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