Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 100%
| At the Death House Door (2008) | "
At the Death House Door is a sobering account of Pickett's gradual evolution from pro-death penalty minister to a man struggling to reconcile his complicated role in those deaths." — Chicago Tribune Posted May 8, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 57%
| Prey for Rock & Roll (2003) | "
It's a raw and raucous rock story that, for once, gets the big picture and the small details right." — Chicago Tribune Posted Oct 23, 2003 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 4%
| House of the Dead (2003) | "
Here is yet another video game transferred to film with little enhancement or development." — Chicago Tribune Posted Oct 17, 2003 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 51%
| Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2003) | "
Meadows clearly has a flair for working with actors and for depicting the rough-and-tumble of ordinary provincial lives. If he could go just a bit deeper, the truly great Midlands movie just might surface." — Chicago Tribune Posted Sep 18, 2003 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 9%
| The Order (2003) | "
Schlock that could and should have been better." — Chicago Tribune Posted Sep 8, 2003 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 82%
| Step Into Liquid (2003) | "
This lively, entertaining documentary shows how surfing has evolved into an extreme sport popular the world over, and yet still retains its slacker, sun-bleached charm." — Chicago Tribune Posted Aug 14, 2003 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 49%
| The Heart of Me (2003) | "
An old-fashioned weepie buffed to a Masterpiece Theater gloss." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 24, 2003 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 64%
| The Eye (2003) | "
A feast to behold, but it lacks substance and will leave most viewers wholly unsatisfied." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 19, 2003 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 84%
| Gloomy Sunday (2003) | "
A remarkable movie." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 19, 2003 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 25%
| A Family Affair (2003) | "
Without the ready-made drama of coming out and identity struggle, gay romance can feel as flimsy and forced as its straight counterpart." — Chicago Tribune Posted May 29, 2003 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 97%
| Love and Diane (2003) | "
Shatters myths and stereotypes about the welfare cycle as it delivers an unforgettable portrait of complex lives still largely ignored by popular culture." — Chicago Tribune Posted May 15, 2003 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 30%
| Malibu's Most Wanted (2003) | "
As with most movies that start as comic sketches -- much of the Saturday Night Live franchise, for example -- the funny ideas and characters are rarely fleshed out enough to justify 90 minutes." — Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 17, 2003 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 43%
| DysFunKtional Family (2003) | "
Griffin isn't untalented, but he seems unpolished, not quite ready to carry the weight of a 90-minute concert film." — Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 3, 2003 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 36%
| Spun (2003) | "
[Akerlund] has effectively created a head-spinning, flesh-crawling milieu all his own, but Spun is ultimately short on substance and long on style." — Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 3, 2003 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 67%
| Laurel Canyon (2003) | "
An engaging, entertaining glimpse into the lives of musicians nestled in the titular Hollywood Hills enclave." — Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 27, 2003 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 72%
| Piglet's Big Movie (2003) | "
Not only appropriate for preschoolers, but it also has enough sophistication for older kids." — Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 20, 2003 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 72%
| Intacto (2002) | "
A clever, original thriller that bows to no genre." — Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 20, 2003 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 43%
| Deliver Us From Eva (2003) | "
A welcome respite from verbal nastiness and sexual cynicism." — Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 6, 2003 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 47%
| Final Destination 2 (2003) | "
FD2, despite some imaginative fatalities, is less a movie than a slick video game." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 30, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 8%
| Kangaroo Jack (2003) | "
The movie gives us frat-house-style sexual humor, flatulence jokes about camels, and a romantic subplot apparently intended to woo the female half of the audience." — Boston Phoenix Posted Jan 18, 2003 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 8%
| Kangaroo Jack (2003) | "
The film's crude humor and violence -- cartoonish, but still violent -- should offend parents of younger kids. Yet its ultra-broad, pratfall-filled comedy will satisfy only the most indiscriminate teens." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 16, 2003 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 78%
| The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002) | "
Move over Bond; this girl deserves a sequel." — Chicago Tribune Posted Dec 19, 2002 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 32%
| The Weight of Water (2002) | "
Bigelow directs this screen version of Anita Shreve's complex novel with polish and a flair for the melodramatic." — Chicago Tribune Posted Oct 31, 2002 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 71%
| The Experiment (2002) | "
An R-rated version of Survivor, Big Brother or any number of reality-TV shows that present voyeurism as entertainment and exploitation as insight." — Chicago Tribune Posted Oct 24, 2002 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 7%
| All the Queen's Men (2002) | "
It seems just a long, convoluted ploy to get men into drag -- period drag, no less." — Chicago Tribune Posted Oct 24, 2002 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 13%
| Ghost Ship (2002) | "
An adequate horror movie for the Halloween season, but it too easily sinks into haunted-house-film conventions, even if the haunted house is decked out as an Italian luxury liner." — Chicago Tribune Posted Oct 24, 2002 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 14%
| Pokemon 4Ever (2002) | "
The latest installment in the Pokemon canon, Pokemon 4ever is surprising less moldy and trite than the last two, likely because much of the Japanese anime is set in a scenic forest where Pokemon graze in peace." — Chicago Tribune Posted Oct 10, 2002 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 20%
| Knockaround Guys (2002) | "
It might hold some appeal to undiscriminating fans of the ultra-bland, tough-guys-in -black-doing -dumb-things genre." — Chicago Tribune Posted Oct 10, 2002 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 78%
| 8 Women (2002) | "
An ebullient toast to grande dames: part homage, part camp, all artifice and a thoroughly entertaining, if light, confection." — Chicago Tribune Posted Sep 26, 2002 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 47%
| Mad Love (2001) | "
Equal parts bodice-ripper and plodding costume drama." — Chicago Tribune Posted Sep 19, 2002 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 74%
| Swimming (2002) | "
A well-crafted film that is all the more remarkable because it achieves its emotional power and moments of revelation with restraint and a delicate ambiguity." — Chicago Tribune Posted Sep 12, 2002 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 67%
| Sade (2002) | "
This Sade is hardly a perverse, dangerous libertine and agitator -- which would have made for better drama. He's just a sad aristocrat in tattered finery, and the film seems as deflated as he does." — Chicago Tribune Posted Aug 29, 2002 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 60%
| Little Secrets (2001) | "
One can hardly argue with the desire to make a wholesome movie for families that extols honesty and decency, but it all comes too easily, too superficially." — Chicago Tribune Posted Aug 22, 2002 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 89%
| The Cockettes (2002) | "
Manages to transcend the sex, drugs and show-tunes plot into something far richer." — Chicago Tribune Posted Aug 8, 2002 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 71%
| Girls Can't Swim (2002) | "
Despite its shortcomings, Girls Can't Swim represents an engaging and intimate first feature by a talented director to watch, and it's a worthy entry in the French coming-of-age genre." — Chicago Tribune Posted Aug 8, 2002 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 65%
| My Wife is an Actress (2002) | "
My Wife offers the best and the worst of both Allen's ego-and- neuroses-based humor and Truffaut's romanticism about love and movies." — Chicago Tribune Posted Aug 1, 2002 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 78%
| Tadpole (2002) | "
Weaver and Neuwirth are the sparks in this film, as they project a maternal sexiness and sincerity that's entirely believable." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 25, 2002 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 69%
| Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) | "
A welcome family film that extols noble values and offers first-class animation." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 20, 2002 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 96%
| Promises (2002) | "
Beautifully crafted and brutally honest, Promises offers an unexpected window into the complexities of prejudice." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 20, 2002 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 75%
| My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) | "
The reliability of the genre doesn't excuse predictable jokes, pat fiascoes and so many stereotypes that one is tempted to alert the Greek anti-defamation league." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 20, 2002 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 66%
| CQ (2002) | "
A film that is visually compelling and highly entertaining in an in-jokey sort of way." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 20, 2002 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 48%
| Lucky Break (2002) | "
The formulaic script, stocked with not one truly menacing inmate, echoes far too many sentimental post-Full Monty imports." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 20, 2002 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 43%
| Piņero (2001) | "
A vivid rendering of the complexities of the artist's soul, and a notable attempt to convey the trajectory of a volatile creative life." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 20, 2002 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 20%
| Circuit (2002) | "
It's too soap opera-ish to carry the heavy weight of the morality play Shafer has fashioned." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 20, 2002 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 49%
| Harrison's Flowers (2002) | "
A powerhouse of a film about modern journalism and war." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 20, 2002 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 47%
| Cherish (2002) | "
An uneven mix of genres that, even when it misses the mark, gets points for originality and a good beat." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 20, 2002 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 34%
| Crush (2002) | "
Mixes slapstick, poignancy, tragedy and sophisticated wit." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 20, 2002 |
Fresh
| Rotten 43%
| Escaflowne The Movie (2000) | "
Its ambitiousness and artistry should satisfy discriminating fans of the anime genre." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 20, 2002 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 10%
| Halloween: Resurrection (2002) | "
Like its parade of predecessors, this Halloween is a gory slash-fest. It can't escape its past, and it doesn't want to." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 13, 2002 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 85%
| Lovely & Amazing (2002) | "
Delivers a surprising, moving portrait of contemporary womanhood." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 12, 2002 |
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