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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%
	"A landmark encounter in the battle of the sexes." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 13, 2008	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)	100%
	"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%
	"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%
	"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%
	"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%
	"As silly as it sounds, but strangely dull." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 6, 2008	The Car (1977)	18%
	"A spotty little horror movie, effective here and there through some appealing eccentricities." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 6, 2008	Phantasm (1978)	67%
	"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%
	"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%
	"The ostensible hero is just a fleshy blur." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 5, 2008	The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)	83%
	"[A] general muddle." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 5, 2008	Cleopatra (1963)	45%
	"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%
	"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%
	"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%
	"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%
	"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%
	"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%
	"The screen is swamped by a bathetic, self-preening sententiousness." -- Chicago Reader Posted Apr 9, 2008	The Killing Fields (1984)	90%
	"Kasdan resorts to a TV-like shorthand, substituting shtick for personality." -- Chicago Reader Posted Apr 9, 2008	Silverado (1985)	81%
	"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%
	"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%
	"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%
	"*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%
	"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%
	"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%
	"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%
	"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%
	"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%
	"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%
	"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%
	"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%
	"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%
	"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%
	"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%
	"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%
	"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%
	"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%
	"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%
	"A serious disappointment, recommended only for inveterate Disney fans and very young people." -- Chicago Reader Posted Mar 10, 2008	The Jungle Book (1967)	88%
	"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%
	"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%
	"The grace of the effects makes it some kind of classic." -- Chicago Reader Posted Mar 3, 2008	Mary Poppins (1964)	100%
	"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%
	"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%
	"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%
	"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
	"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%
	"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%
	"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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