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JONATHAN ROSENBAUM
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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4 Nights of Cabiria
3/4 Scream
2/4 The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
1/4 Jerry Maguire
0/4 Samaritan Girl
3-4 Iraq in Fragments
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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4/4 Starting Out in the Evening
4/4 Out 1, Noli Me Tangere
4/4 Private Fears in Public Places
4/4 Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
4/4 Letters From Iwo Jima
4/4 Inland Empire
4/4 Half Nelson
4/4 The Illusionist
4/4 Three Times
4/4 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
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WORST REVIEWED
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0/4 The Astronaut Farmer
0/4 Saw II
0/4 Samaritan Girl
0/4 Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
1/4 13 Tzameti
1/4 Scoop
1/4 Pride and Prejudice
1/4 Dear Wendy
1/4 Last Days
1/4 Mr. and Mrs. Smith
 more...
 
This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

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"One of Penn's best features; his direction of actors is sensitive and purposeful throughout." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Jul 23, 2008
 
Night Moves (1975)82%
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"Whit Stillman's crafty independent feature about wealthy Park Avenue teenagers and a middle-class boy who joins their ranks over one Christmas vacation is certainly well imagined, and impressively acted by a cast of newcomers." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Jul 18, 2008
 
Metropolitan (1990)92%
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"It's pretentious, lugubrious, mawkish, and full of both naivete and macho bluster. It also has moments that are indelible and heartbreaking." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Jul 15, 2008
 
Too Late Blues (1961)80%
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"Unimaginative but intelligent." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Jul 9, 2008
 
Julius Caesar (1953)100%
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"One can pick plenty of bones with Laurence Olivier's direction of the Shakespeare play, but this 1945 film is still a powerful production from many standpoints." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Jul 9, 2008
 
Henry V (1944)100%
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"Gone is any sense of drama or character; the cluttered spectacle yields no overriding design but simply disconnected MTV-like conceits or mini-ideas every three seconds." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Jul 3, 2008
 
Prospero's Books (1991)67%
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"This runs 118 minutes, but it felt like six or seven hours." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Jul 3, 2008
 
Looking for Richard (1996)82%
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"Akira Kurosawa's remarkable 1957 restaging of Macbeth in samurai and expressionist terms is unquestionably one of his finest works -- charged with energy, imagination, and, in keeping with the subject, sheer horror." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Jul 1, 2008
 
Throne of Blood (1957)97%
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"The cast -- including Derek Jacobi as the modern-dress chorus, Paul Scofield, Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Emma Thompson, and Robbie Coltrane in an effective cameo as Falstaff -- is uniformly fine without any grandstanding." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Jul 1, 2008
 
Henry V (1989)100%
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"Woody Harrelson plays Flynt with energy, and Courtney Love does at least as well as his wife." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Jun 30, 2008
 
The People Vs. Larry Flynt (1996)87%
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"Sidney Lumet's direction, like David Mamet's patchy script, may not be quite good enough to justify the Rembrandt-like cinematography of Edward Pisoni and the brooding mood of self-importance, but it's good direction nonetheless." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Jun 30, 2008
 
The Verdict (1982)96%
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"Chevy Chase returns to the anonymous, unmemorable suburban mode that made his earlier movies profitable. And guess what? The results are anonymous and unmemorable." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Jun 30, 2008
 
Cops & Robbersons (1994)17%
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"In the narration Maddin claims that Winnipeg has ten times as many sleepwalkers as any other city in the world, and though he's surely making this up, it conveys his own sense of entrapment amid the town's dreaminess." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Jun 27, 2008
 
My Winnipeg (2008)97%
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"An original movie, though not Tim Burton's best." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Jun 17, 2008
 
Edward Scissorhands (1990)91%
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"Compulsively mainstream as only 50s Hollywood could be, and never very funny." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 28, 2008
 
Pillow Talk (1959)92%
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"Whatever my qualms, it's still one of the funniest comedies around." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 27, 2008
 
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)80%
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"Griffith's talent, energy, and sexiness give it some drive and punch." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 27, 2008
 
Working Girl (1988)83%
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"This exudes trendiness at regular intervals, and otherwise manages to be reasonably charming about Manhattan's melting pot culture, but my general response was still 'Wake me when it's over.'" -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 27, 2008
 
Party Girl (1995)75%
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"While it's easy to imagine an infinite number of bad courtroom comedies based on this scenario, this movie turns out to be wonderful -- broad and low character comedy that's solidly imagined and beautifully played." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 27, 2008
 
My Cousin Vinny (1992)89%
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"Elaborate visual mounting and iconographic placement of the romantic leads are the movie's preoccupation, with the overthrow of Batista merely providing local color." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 26, 2008
 
Havana (1990)17%
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"Most of the show belongs to Cher and Cage, both of whom are at their energetic best." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 23, 2008
 
Moonstruck (1987)91%
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"Basically a redneck drive-in movie in style and delivery." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 22, 2008
 
Shakes the Clown (1992)37%
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"The character and plot contrivances are dumber than ever, but this is basically vaudeville, not narrative, and the thrills keep coming." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 22, 2008
 
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)76%
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"The results are watchable enough, with a particularly adept use of Sean Connery, Chicago locations, and period details." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 21, 2008
 
The Untouchables (1987)82%
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"A curiously sour movie in its amused contempt for this fatuous family." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 20, 2008
 
Brady Bunch Movie (1995)59%
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"Though it's a good half hour too long, this overblown 1993 spin-off of the 60s TV show otherwise adds up to a pretty good suspense thriller." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 20, 2008
 
The Fugitive (1993)94%
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"At least the special effects and outer space vistas are more handsome than usual." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 19, 2008
 
Star Trek: Generations (1994)51%
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"[The] special effects, despite the hefty budget, look strictly bargain basement." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 19, 2008
 
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)18%
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"[A] celebration of high jinks." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 19, 2008
 
Sgt. Bilko (1996)32%
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"I don't see this slightly better-than-average drug thriller, with slightly better-than-average direction by Steven Soderbergh, as anything more than a routine rubber-stamping of genre reflexes." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 18, 2008
 
Traffic (2000)92%
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"Sonnenfeld's cheerful irreverence keeps it reasonable." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 18, 2008
 
Wild Wild West (1999)21%
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"If you really hate your kids, pack them off to this slapdash farce, whose only funny moment is the PC disclaimer at the end about the Disney company's humanist concern for blind people." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 16, 2008
 
Mr. Magoo (1997)4%
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"Even if you find Franken hard to bear, as I do, the movie's take on how he functions in the world is both authoritative and compelling, and the movie steadily grows in stature." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 14, 2008
 
Stuart Saves His Family (1995)29%
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"Four writers worked on the script, and they all should hang their heads in shame." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 13, 2008
 
The Beverly Hillbillies (1993)25%
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"The characters (both animal and human) are solidly conceived, and the storytelling and visuals are expertly fashioned." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 13, 2008
 
Babe (1995)98%
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"powerful experience, alternately corrosive with dark parodic humor, suspenseful, moving, and terrifying." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 7, 2008
 
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)98%
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"An entertaining comedy-thriller adapted by Scott Frank from the Elmore Leonard best-seller and directed with bounce (if not much nuance) by Barry Sonnenfeld." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 7, 2008
 
Get Shorty (1995)85%
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"Sarandon and Davis bring a lot of unpredictable verve and nuance to their parts." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 7, 2008
 
Thelma & Louise (1991)90%
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"In 1990 the people who brought you Top Gun -- Tom Cruise, director Tony Scott, and producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer -- figured out a way to take more of your money, and it involved stock-car racing." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 7, 2008
 
Days of Thunder (1990)44%
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"Even more gory and adolescent than its models, which explains both the fun and the unpleasantness of this globe-trotting romp." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 7, 2008
 
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)85%
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"Very silly but enjoyable." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 6, 2008
 
Wayne's World (1992)83%
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"This 1964 entry is the most enjoyable of the James Bond thrillers starring Sean Connery -- perhaps because it's the most comic and cartoony in look as well as conception." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 6, 2008
 
Goldfinger (1964)96%
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"I found it more pleasurable as a time waster than either Mission: Impossible." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 6, 2008
 
Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)26%
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"This one offers some agreeably mindless fun in which the villains (including Norton) are truly villainous, the payback is satisfying in a purely infantile way, and the familiarity of everything is oddly comforting." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 6, 2008
 
The Italian Job (2003)73%
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"As a deeply personal work about free-floating existential identities, this 1989 film has the kind of grit and feeling that few action comedies can muster, with Eastwood and Peters interesting and unpredictable throughout." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 5, 2008
 
Pink Cadillac (1989)18%
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"The fast pace and force-fed wisecracks are as seamless as ever, but rarely has audience laughter sounded as hollow." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 5, 2008
 
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)89%
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"Nearly all the SF premises are accorded the status of Andrew Dice Clay one-liners -- which means that they, along with the characters, keep changing from one scene to the next." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
Demolition Man (1993)61%
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"Whatever one thinks, and however much the film may seem dated now in relation to Brakhage's subsequent output, it is an achievement to be reckoned with." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 29, 2008
 
Dog Star Man (1964)100%
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"A wonderful mess." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 28, 2008
 
Magnolia (1999)84%
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"This is a long way from the social comedy of Jerry Lewis. The characters here are ultimately turned into punching bags or punch-line dispensers." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 28, 2008
 
Dumb and Dumber (1994)60%

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