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DAVE KEHR
Dave Kehr

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• Chicago Reader
• Citysearch
• New York Times

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Total Reviews: 2141

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• National Society of Film Critics
• New York Film Critics Circle


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"Howard Hawks's finest western (1959), and perhaps his finest film." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 13, 2008
 
Rio Bravo (1959)100%
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"A landmark encounter in the battle of the sexes." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 13, 2008
 
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)100%
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"This late masterpiece (1962) by Howard Hawks transcends every literary value in the book to become a brilliantly entertaining and insightful work of pure cinema." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 13, 2008
 
Hatari! (1962)68%
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"It's so clumsy and pounding that taking a child to it might be grounds for a visit from family services." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 12, 2008
 
Doctor Dolittle (1967)28%
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"Despite plenty of gross-out gags and dumb slapstick bits, the careful viewer can occasionally detect some acrid and original satire in this 1983 film." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 7, 2008
 
National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)97%
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"Director Lou Adler (the record producer) finds a few chuckles, but mostly it's amateur night." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 7, 2008
 
Cheech & Chong's Up in Smoke (1978)47%
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"As silly as it sounds, but strangely dull." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 6, 2008
 
The Car (1977)18%
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"A spotty little horror movie, effective here and there through some appealing eccentricities." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 6, 2008
 
Phantasm (1978)67%
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"It's fast-paced and full of gaudy action, yet it's thoroughly unsatisfying, largely because it's so lazy." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 6, 2008
 
Cobra (1986)7%
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"Slightly bloated Bond, with too much technology for my taste and a climactic slaughter that's a little too mindless to be much fun." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 6, 2008
 
Thunderball (1965)90%
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"The ostensible hero is just a fleshy blur." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 5, 2008
 
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)83%
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"[A] general muddle." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 5, 2008
 
Cleopatra (1963)45%
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"The film betrays no human impulse higher than that of a ten-year-old boy trying to gross out his baby sister by dangling a dead worm in her face." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 5, 2008
 
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)87%
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"No one but Tennessee Williams could have concocted it, but anyone other than John Huston should have directed it." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 5, 2008
 
The Night of the Iguana (1964)73%
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"There is no place for depth or nuance in this slickly engineered complacency machine." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 5, 2008
 
The Big Chill (1983)69%
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"The picture itself is a strange trade-off between Lynch's personal themes -- the night world of obscure, disturbing sexual obsessions -- and the requirements of a middlebrow message movie." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
The Elephant Man (1980)91%
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"Assorted ladies, a few quick lines, and one good chase, making for a mediocre entry in the series." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 24, 2008
 
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)67%
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"For my money, still the best Bond, with a screwball plotline that keeps the locales changing and the surprises coming." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 15, 2008
 
From Russia with Love (1963)97%
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"The screen is swamped by a bathetic, self-preening sententiousness." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 9, 2008
 
The Killing Fields (1984)90%
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"Kasdan resorts to a TV-like shorthand, substituting shtick for personality." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 9, 2008
 
Silverado (1985)81%
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"Burl Ives and Judith Anderson are highly entertaining as the nightmare parents, Big Daddy and Big Mama, and Jack Carson has one of his last good roles as Newman's competitive older brother." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 8, 2008
 
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)100%
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"A little windy and rhetorical for my taste, but still one of John Huston's best efforts." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 8, 2008
 
Key Largo (1948)96%
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"While the film remains a respectable thriller, only Ryan's crafty, quietly deranged performance lifts it out of the ordinary." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 8, 2008
 
Crossfire (1947)85%
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"The escape sequence has the spatial intricacy of the heist in Dassin's Rififi, but the tone is tougher, bleaker, and more suspenseful." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 8, 2008
 
Brute Force (1947)91%
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"Clint Eastwood wisely chose a strong, simple thriller for his first film as a director, and the project is remarkable in its self-effacing dedication to getting the craft right." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 8, 2008
 
Play Misty for Me (1971)85%
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"This 1983 film re-creates a screwball comedy format and then eliminates everything but the crudest audience-gratification elements; any incursions into the more morally complicated side of the genre are quickly curtailed." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 2, 2008
 
Trading Places (1983)91%
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"Cary Grant's performance is truly virtuoso -- stunning technique applied to the most challenging material." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 2, 2008
 
His Girl Friday (1940)97%
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"The balance of the film consists of time-tested commercial material, most of which is still working fine." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 1, 2008
 
Stripes (1981)91%
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"For all its overfamiliarity, this is a good play, easily Simon's best, and Matthau and Lemmon inhabit it with grace and style." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 1, 2008
 
The Odd Couple (1968)100%
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"The humor is predicated on underplaying in overscaled situations, which is sporadically funny in a Keaton-esque way but soon sputters out through sheer, uninspired repetition." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 1, 2008
 
The Blues Brothers (1980)78%
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"So little care has gone into the characterizations, the structure, and the situations that the film merely feints at significant comedy." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 1, 2008
 
Arthur (1981)88%
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"It's easy to spoof cliches; it's something else again to string them together with the insight into narrative structure these boys evidence." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 1, 2008
 
Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)77%
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"This 1940 film seems to spring straight from his cranky, beleaguered, convoluted personality, with no concessions made to film form, audience enjoyment, or common sense, and still it's very funny in a desultory, strangely private kind of way." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 1, 2008
 
The Bank Dick (1940)100%
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"The gags aren't exactly clever, but there are a lot of them, and the cutting finds a fast, effective tempo." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 1, 2008
 
Airplane! (1980)100%
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"The acting and editing have such an original, tumultuous force that the picture is completely gripping." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 31, 2008
 
Mean Streets (1973)98%
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"Scorsese's orchestration of thematic development, narrative structure, and visual style is stunning in its detail and fullness; this 1985 feature reestablished him as one of the very few contemporary masters of filmmaking." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 31, 2008
 
After Hours (1985)92%
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"The uncenteredness of the film is irritating, though it's irritating in an ambitious, risk-taking way." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 31, 2008
 
The King of Comedy (1982)92%
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"Trite is hardly the word for the plot, which was already wheezy by the time this minor classic was made in 1947, but Abraham Polonsky's script brings such tight, painful focus to the moral choices that it seems fresh and real." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 25, 2008
 
Body and Soul (1947)100%
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"The second film version (1964) of Ernest Hemingway's short story, directed by Don Siegel with far more energy than Robert Siodmak could muster for his overrated 1946 effort." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 12, 2008
 
The Killers (1964)86%
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"A serious disappointment, recommended only for inveterate Disney fans and very young people." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 10, 2008
 
The Jungle Book (1967)88%
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"Superior exercise in urban paranoia; the superb location work of director Joseph Sargent goes a long way toward tempering the artificialities of the plot." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 4, 2008
 
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)100%
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"The concept and some of the episodes are tainted with kitsch, but there's no other animated film with its scope and ambition." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 3, 2008
 
Fantasia (1940)97%
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"The grace of the effects makes it some kind of classic." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 3, 2008
 
Mary Poppins (1964)100%
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"This 1964 feature remains one of Godard's most appealing and underrated films, relatively relaxed and strangely optimistic." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 3, 2008
 
Band of Outsiders (1964)95%
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"It's a good character for Dangerfield, one that veers him away from the 'I don't get no respect' pathos that comes too easily to him, and enough attention is paid to the minimal plot to integrate Dangerfield's classically constructed one-liners." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 27, 2008
 
Back to School (1986)87%
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"As a filmmaker, Sayles still seems more likable than incisive or original, but it's a likability with a certain brilliance." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 27, 2008
 
Baby It's You (1983)93%
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"Flaherty's sticky romanticism can't obscure the power of his images, which speak with an eloquence the intertitles lack." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 26, 2008
 
Moana (1926)n/a
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"This was the last Disney animated feature (1961) that Uncle Walt lived to see through personally; it can't be a coincidence that it's also the last Disney animated feature of real depth and emotional authenticity." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 12, 2008
 
101 Dalmatians (1961)97%
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"Everyone concedes that this 1941 Hitchcock film is a failure, yet it displays so much artistic seriousness that I find its failure utterly mysterious." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 11, 2008
 
Suspicion (1941)100%
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"The wholesome cast completely obliterates the unstated perversities that have been this genre's reason for being." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 11, 2008
 
Jagged Edge (1985)85%

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