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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

Publications:: Chicago Reader , Orlando Weekly
Critics' Group:: National Society of Film Critics

Total Reviews:: 2135

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	95%	Twelve O'Clock High (1949)	" Sincere, square, and interminable." — Chicago Reader Posted Feb 10, 2012
	100%	Alfie (1966)	" For all its implicit misogyny, the original 1966 film version of Bill Naughton's play remains durable because of Michael Caine's career-defining performance as the cockney ladies' man." — Chicago Reader Posted Feb 10, 2012
	98%	La Grande illusion (The Grand Illusion) (1937)	" It's still one of the key humanist expressions to be found in movies: sad, funny, exalting, and glorious." — Chicago Reader Posted Feb 8, 2012
	7%	Woo (1998)	" This Manhattan-based romantic comedy might be fun if it didn't hit you over the head with a sledgehammer every few minutes." — Chicago Reader Posted Feb 8, 2012
	11%	Alex & Emma (2003)	" The actors make this fun if you can overlook the ludicrous view of Jeremy Leven's screenplay concerning how novels are written and what publishers generally pay for them." — Chicago Reader Posted Feb 8, 2012
	73%	A Single Girl (2000)	" A stunning demonstration of moral and existential suspense in relation to duration, much like Agnes Varda's 1961 Cleo From 5 to 7." — Chicago Reader Posted Feb 7, 2012
	73%	The Prince of Tides (1991)	" The results may seem overripe and dated in spots, but she coaxes a fine performance out of Nolte, and the other actors (herself included) acquit themselves honorably. " — Chicago Reader Posted Feb 3, 2012
	50%	The Alamo (1960)	" Interminable." — Chicago Reader Posted Jan 31, 2012
	71%	Il Momento della Verita (The Moment of Truth) (1965)	" Francesco Rosi's 1965 feature is widely (and plausibly) considered the best movie about bullfighting, in part because of its irony and finesse in capturing how the sport springs from and plays against the social reality of Spain." — Chicago Reader Posted Jan 23, 2012
	92%	Evil Angels (A Cry in the Dark) (1988)	" Streep's beauty and talent and director Fred Schepisi's intelligence are both shown to best advantage, without easy points or grandstanding." — Chicago Reader Posted Dec 19, 2011
	68%	Hard Candy (2006)	" Personally, I'd rather have this movie obliterated from my memory." — Chicago Reader Posted Nov 15, 2011
	76%	8 Mile (2002)	" The movie has some of the braggadocio of its white-trash hero, building to its competitive climax as if it were a gladiatorial sporting event, and it carried me all the way." — Chicago Reader Posted Nov 15, 2011
	60%	American Pie (1999)	" Another giggly gross-out comedy for teenagers, this one somewhat better than most by virtue of a more satisfying ending." — Chicago Reader Posted Nov 8, 2011
	78%	Biloxi Blues (1988)	" Perhaps this movie isn't as wise or as profound as Simon wants it to be, but it is certainly a cut above sitcom complacency, and packed with wit and charm." — Chicago Reader Posted Oct 26, 2011
	67%	The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)	" Frankly, if I had to see either Harlin-Davis movie again, I'd opt for the klutzy unpleasantness of Cutthroat Island over the efficient if equally stupid unpleasantness of this 1996 release." — Chicago Reader Posted Oct 25, 2011
	76%	Top Secret! (1984)	" The plot combines the rock musical with the spy thriller (not to mention assorted other genres), and the comic invention is fairly constant." — Chicago Reader Posted Oct 18, 2011
	91%	Cure (1998)	" It's unsatisfying as a story precisely because it aspires to create a mounting sense of dread by enlarging questions rather than answering them." — Chicago Reader Posted Oct 17, 2011
	90%	Postcards from the Edge (1990)	" There's not much depth here, but Nichols does a fine job with the surface effects, and the wisecracks keep coming." — Chicago Reader Posted Oct 5, 2011
	96%	The Big Easy (1986)	" [McBride] gets tense, sexy performances from Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin and makes the most of his New Orleans locations." — Chicago Reader Posted Oct 5, 2011
	71%	The Game (1997)	" This 1997 thriller is fairly entertaining nonsense if all you're looking for is 128 minutes of diversion. But if you'd like something more from David Fincher, the director of Seven, don't get your hopes up." — Chicago Reader Posted Oct 4, 2011
	92%	Memento (2000)	" More a puzzle than a meaningful story, it reminds me of how Edmund Wilson compared reading a mystery to eagerly unpacking a box of excelsior, only to find a few rusty nails at the bottom." — Chicago Reader Posted Sep 27, 2011
	84%	Moby Dick (1956)	" One could have plenty of quarrels with this as an adaptation of the Herman Melville novel, but it's still one of the better John Huston films of the 50s." — Chicago Reader Posted Aug 5, 2011
3/4	——	Negative Space ()	— Chicago Reader Posted Jul 27, 2011
	54%	Home Alone (1990)	" The movie is quite enjoyable as long as it explores the fantasy of a neglected little boy having an entire house of his own to explore and play in, and it still manages to be fun when he exhibits superhuman ingenuity and resourcefulness." — Chicago Reader Posted Jul 26, 2011
	73%	Falling Down (1993)	" None of the characters ever rises beyond the level of his or her generic functions, and by the end the overall emptiness of the conception becomes fully apparent." — Chicago Reader Posted Jul 18, 2011
	91%	Dark Passage (1947)	" An odd, atmospheric 1947 thriller." — Chicago Reader Posted Jul 12, 2011
	97%	Apollo 13 (1995)	" This meticulous but ultimately rather pedestrian drama gradually won me over as a minor if watchable example of the "victory through defeat" brand of military heroism that John Ford specialized in." — Chicago Reader Posted Jun 1, 2011
	87%	Zazie dans le m�tro (Zazie in the Subway) (1960)	" Arguably Louis Malle's best work." — Chicago Reader Posted May 30, 2011
	71%	The Ring (2002)	" It's a treasure hunt reduced to isolated jolts and more clues than you can shake a stick at (every fly on the wall and child's drawing bristles with unholy significance), and an utter waste of Watts." — Chicago Reader Posted May 29, 2011
	77%	The Birdcage (1996)	" This isn't the supreme masterpiece it might have been, but Nichols's direction is very polished and some of the lines and details are awfully funny." — Chicago Reader Posted May 29, 2011
	84%	King Kong (2005)	" It clocks in at over three hours, but Peter Jackson's remake of the 1933 classic is gripping nonetheless." — Chicago Reader Posted May 29, 2011
	74%	Dawn of the Dead (2004)	" The new version has its share of disturbing moments, but writer James Gunn and director Zack Snyder have stripped away the social satire of the original and put little in its place." — Chicago Reader Posted May 27, 2011
	88%	Twelve Monkeys (12 Monkeys) (1995)	" While all of Gilliam's movies are worth seeing, there's a fair amount of his designer grimness here mixed in with the cabaret comedy." — Chicago Reader Posted May 27, 2011
	97%	A Little Princess (1995)	" The film uses studio resources to create an entrancing world both in New York and in the heroine's fantasies about India." — Chicago Reader Posted May 27, 2011
	88%	Scent of a Woman (1992)	" An irascible bully who proves to have a heart of gold, Pacino's character seems manufactured by a computer programmed with box-office grosses." — Chicago Reader Posted May 27, 2011
	76%	Cape Fear (1991)	" It's hard to understand why Martin Scorsese wanted to remake a nasty, formulaic 1962 thriller whose only "classic" credentials are a terrifying performance by Robert Mitchum and a Bernard Herrmann score." — Chicago Reader Posted May 24, 2011
	87%	Ohayo (Good Morning) (1959)	" Perhaps the most delightful of Yasujiro Ozu's late comedies." — Chicago Reader Posted May 20, 2011
	——	The Outsider (Szabadgyalog) (2005)	" Much of the film is shot in close-ups, making for a stark oppressiveness." — Chicago Reader Posted Apr 7, 2011
—	——	Deadly Currents (1994)	— Chicago Reader Posted Apr 5, 2011
—	——	Camp de Thiaroye (1990)	— Chicago Reader Posted Apr 5, 2011
—	——	Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes (Le P�re No�l a les yeux bleus) (1969)	— Chicago Reader Posted Apr 5, 2011
—	——	The May Lady (Banoo-Ye Ordibehesht) (2000)	— Chicago Reader Posted Apr 4, 2011
—	——	I am Self Sufficient (Io sono un autarchico) (1976)	— Chicago Reader Posted Apr 4, 2011
—	——	Todo el poder (Gimme the Power) (1999)	— Chicago Reader Posted Apr 4, 2011
—	——	Iskanderija... Lih? (Alexandria... Why?) (1978)	— Chicago Reader Posted Apr 4, 2011
—	——	Talk (1995)	— Chicago Reader Posted Apr 4, 2011
—	——	Gorod Zero, (Zero City), (City Zero) (1990)	— Chicago Reader Posted Apr 4, 2011
—	——	Camp De Thiaroye (2008)	— Chicago Reader Posted Apr 4, 2011
—	——	Ratataplan ()	— Chicago Reader Posted Apr 4, 2011

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