|
5/5
|
71%
|
28 Weeks Later... (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
89%
|
Auf der Anderen Seite (The Edge of Heaven) (On the Other Side) (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
94%
|
Away from Her (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
96%
|
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
95%
|
No End in Sight (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
88%
|
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
Sicko (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
|
|
4/4
|
81%
|
The Manchurian Candidate (2004) |
"
Strikes me as a very artful cover -- about the cleverest imaginable transliteration of the story from its historical moment to ours."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Aug 13, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
50%
|
Hula Girls (Hula garu) (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
2 Days in Paris (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
78%
|
Crazy Love (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
20%
|
Death Sentence (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Voyna i Mir (War and Peace) (1967) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
67%
|
Bunt. Delo Litvinenko (Poisoned by Polonium: The Litvinenko File) (Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case) (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
75%
|
My Best Friend (Mon meilleur ami) (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
48%
|
Macbeth (2006) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
Red Road (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
61%
|
Dans Paris (Inside Paris) (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
96%
|
A fost sau n-a fost?, (12:08 East of Bucharest) (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
|
41%
|
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010) |
"
Once the filmmakers have dispensed with a grueling expository preface set in Arthurian England, this shameless Harry Potter knockoff is a pretty tasty bucket of popcorn."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Jul 15, 2010
|
|
|
81%
|
Despicable Me (2010) |
"
Like the best kids' entertainment, this creates a daffy little world all its own."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Jul 8, 2010
|
|
|
——
|
Shooting Robert King () |
"
Richard Parry delivers a solid if not revelatory video (2008) about what motivates a man to leave behind a wife and child to risk his life collecting salable images of death."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted May 20, 2010
|
|
|
81%
|
City Island (2010) |
"
Feeble but well-stuffed comedy."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 30, 2010
|
|
|
72%
|
36 vues du Pic Saint Loup (Around a Small Mountain) (2010) |
"
As precious as it sounds but also irresistibly charming."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 25, 2010
|
|
|
98%
|
How to Train Your Dragon (2010) |
"
Codirectors Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders understand more about visualizing the joy of flight than James Cameron ever will."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 25, 2010
|
|
|
74%
|
Banlieue 13 - Ultimatum (District 13: Ultimatum) (2009) |
"
This sequel to the French actioner District B13 (2004) offers more of what made the original such a sublimely stupid pleasure."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 25, 2010
|
|
|
100%
|
Still Bill (2010) |
"
Handsome and agreeable."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 11, 2010
|
|
|
69%
|
BLAST! (2009) |
"
Communicates the joys and heartbreaks of scientific creativity without unduly taxing viewers who don't know dark matter from pancake batter."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 2, 2010
|
|
|
28%
|
Adventures of Power (2009) |
"
It's such a fine line between clever and stupid, and this Spinal Tap-caliber cult item maintains a perfect balance."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 2, 2010
|
|
|
96%
|
35 Rhums (35 Shots of Rum) (2008) |
"
It's a beautiful picture but very quietly so, and definitely not for the ADHD set."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Jan 26, 2010
|
|
|
48%
|
The Book of Eli (2010) |
"
The sepia-toned palette gets a little wearying, but the dialogue is hilarious, the violence is crunchy, and cameos by Tom Waits and topflight Brit character actor Michael Gambon are worth the ticket price alone."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Jan 14, 2010
|
|
|
67%
|
Daybreakers (2010) |
"
Writer-directors Michael and Peter Spierig equip this unpretentious, low-budget, high-functioning shocker with some sharp satirical teeth, and Dafoe has a ball behind his Manson goatee."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Jan 8, 2010
|
|
|
21%
|
Leap Year (2010) |
"
As modern rom-coms go, this is trite but relatively painless."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Jan 8, 2010
|
|
|
45%
|
Until the Light Takes Us (2009) |
"
This is worth seeing for its snapshot of countercultural delusion and the comedy of Varg "Count Grishnackh" Vikernes, pompous crypto-Nazi and incarcerated murderer, whining that the media have distorted his subtle social critique."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Jan 8, 2010
|
|
|
68%
|
Youth in Revolt (2010) |
"
Mildly diverting rather than uproarious, the film still stands out among teen sex comedies for its low-key approach to antic material."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Jan 8, 2010
|
|
|
12%
|
The Unborn (2009) |
"
[An] exuberantly creepy mash-up of Jewish folklore, J-horror atmospherics, and demonic possession boilerplate."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Jan 5, 2010
|
|
|
90%
|
Zombieland (2009) |
"
Scattershot but sharp, this postapocalyptic road comedy gives Shaun of the Dead a run for its money."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Dec 16, 2009
|
|
|
95%
|
Crude (2009) |
"
A gripping, multifaceted thriller about media politics, global economics, and legal infighting. Wherever your sympathies fall, this may teach you a lot about the way the modern world works."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Dec 3, 2009
|
|
|
94%
|
An Education (2009) |
"
As a dual portrait of low-level criminality and lower-middle-class insecurity, it's unique and indelible."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Oct 8, 2009
|
|
|
62%
|
I Can Do Bad All By Myself (2009) |
"
Contrived, sentimental, tonally bipolar, and as predictable as clockwork, this latest from chitlin' circuit impressario Tyler Perry is just a fat slab of ecstatic entertainment."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Oct 2, 2009
|
|
|
82%
|
Bakjwi (Thirst) (2009) |
"
Park aficionados are assured their fix of lurid imagery and baroque plotting, though straight-up horror buffs may get restless during the sluggish and murky middle section; Twilight fans need not apply."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Aug 20, 2009
|
|
|
68%
|
Funny People (2009) |
"
Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) takes some interesting chances in this messy but engaging comedy, which suggests he may yet mature (no, seriously) into a filmmaker of substance."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Aug 20, 2009
|
|
|
96%
|
Food, Inc. (2009) |
"
Smart, gripping, and untainted by the influence of Michael Moore."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Aug 20, 2009
|
|
|
84%
|
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) |
"
Director David Yates presides over some gorgeous CGI set pieces, but all the real magic comes from the scrum of ace British character actors."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Jul 17, 2009
|
|
|
55%
|
The Stoning of Soraya M. (2009) |
"
This gory, ham-fisted hybrid of social-issue picture and horror film exerts a crude but undeniable power."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Jun 26, 2009
|
|
|
96%
|
Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea (2004) |
"
Narrated with morbid relish by John Waters, this witty doc chronicles the rise and ruination of the Salton Sea, a tiny inland ocean once promoted as 'California's Riviera' but now a festering, apocalyptically hideous ecological disaster zone."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Jul 12, 2007
|
|
3/4
|
90%
|
Mean Creek (2004) |
"
Very much its own picture -- and a damn sight better one than Stand by Me."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Sep 3, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
89%
|
Helvetica (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
82%
|
Talk to Me (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
63%
——
96%
