Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 95%
| Star Trek (2009) | "
The movie, typically for Abrams, is almost continuously exciting." — Movie City News Posted May 15, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/5
| Fresh 62%
| The Brothers Bloom (2009) | "
... it's not important, but it's fun ..." — Movie City News Posted May 15, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 93%
| Summer Hours (2009) | "
One of my favorites of the year is this wonderful French family ensemble film ..." — Movie City News Posted May 15, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 37%
| Angels & Demons (2009) | "
For sheer off-the charts looniness, it'll be hard to top the furious plot and flabbergasting climax of Angels and Demons ..." — Movie City News Posted May 15, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 55%
| The Soloist (2009) | "
The writer, Susannah Grant, director Joe Wright, and especially the two superb leading actors all give the film life and humanity." — Movie City News Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 64%
| Watchmen (2009) | "
This is good stuff, and perhaps we shouldn’t fault it for not being great stuff." — Movie City News Posted Mar 5, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 60%
| Valkyrie (2008) | "
As a high-gloss, high-powered, high tech (WW2 era) thriller, with real-life overtones, it’s often hell on wheels." — Movie City News Posted Dec 31, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 40%
| Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008) | "
... it's a lapdog of a script, all gussied up. And the Beverly Hills scenes made me want to arf." — Movie City News Posted Oct 29, 2008 |
— | Fresh 89%
| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) |
Click here to read article — Chicago Tribune Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 51%
| Body of Lies (2008) | "
It's an exciting movie, done in the flashy, breath-catching hyper-visual mode we expect from Scott. But in the end, it gets bogged down ..." — Movie City News Posted Oct 10, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 87%
| Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) | "
We should be glad that del Toro is operating at his peak right now, getting all the money and latitude he needs to weave his spells." — Movie City News Posted Jul 10, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 30%
| Lucky You (2007) | "
Hanson and Roth shuffle the two sides of the movie, the poker tournament and the love affair, with a Howard Hawksian feel for casual professionalism." — Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 10, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Anthem (1997) | "
It's enjoyable precisely because Hahn and Gabel give us both sides of the experience: the interviewer and interviewee. Though there’s an undercurrent of melancholy, Anthem is a bright ride, a welcome shot of 60’s optimism in a gray post-modern age." — Chicago Tribune Posted Sep 24, 2007 |
— | N/A | Bad City (2006) |
Click here to read article — Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 14, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 57%
| First Snow (2007) | "
A smart, tense modern film noir." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 30, 2007 |
— | Rotten 23%
| Psychopathia Sexualis (2006) |
Click here to read article — Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 30, 2007 |
— | Fresh 98%
| Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (2007) |
Click here to read article — Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 30, 2007 |
— | Rotten 22%
| Typhoon (2006) |
Click here to read article — Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 30, 2007 |
— | Fresh 73%
| Pulse (2005) |
Click here to read article — Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 30, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 93%
| Up for Grabs (2005) | "
... low on technology but high on hilarity." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 26, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 86%
| Steel City (2006) | "
Steel City is one of the most hopeful movies I've seen recently -- not just for its humane, realistic story line (about a small-town family in crisis), but in its very being." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 14, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 63%
| Day Watch (2007) | "
One hell of a movie." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 14, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 70%
| Golden Door (2007) | "
An often lyrical and moving movie." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 14, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 58%
| Labyrinth (1986) | "
A real masterpiece of puppetry and special effects, an absolutely gorgeous children's fantasy movie." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 14, 2007 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 79%
| Private Fears in Public Places (2007) | "
A film about love and blunders done from the perspective of age, crafted by writer Alan Ayckbourn, 68, and director Alain Resnais, 85. Our younger directors and screenwriters should show this much brilliance and feeling." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 8, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 38%
| Hollywood Dreams (2007) | "
Jaglom's Hollywood Dreams are far closer to reality than they might seem. Unfortunately." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 7, 2007 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 43%
| Angel-A (2007) | "
We all have our own view of paradise, but as long as Besson has Arbogast, his camera and those surreal bare Parisian streets, his schlocky heaven enchants the eye, if not the mind." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 7, 2007 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 77%
| Crazy Love (2007) | "
A documentary about a mad love affair, a movie that's about as compulsively watchable as a great tabloid headline story is compulsively readable -- and also a lot more rewarding." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 7, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 82%
| Paprika (2007) | "
The movie keeps flooding us with strange, scary imagery." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 7, 2007 |
Fresh
| N/A | The Climb (1999) | "
John Hurt, the star of The Climb, is an actor with an often staggering capacity for conveying human suffering." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 4, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 89%
| Stephanie Daley (2007) | "
A movie that can wound you." — Chicago Tribune Posted May 31, 2007 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 100%
| War and Peace (1968) | "
If you haven't seen it, you have an incredible treat in store." — Chicago Tribune Posted May 31, 2007 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 95%
| Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea (2007) | "
If it's not likely to send you scurrying off to the place on your next vacation, it's still a fascinating, nutty story, a kind of Chinatown gone wrong (or gone more wrong )." — Chicago Tribune Posted May 31, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 58%
| Bug (2007) | "
A nerve-rending, extremely unpleasant experience but also a compelling one." — Chicago Tribune Posted May 24, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 88%
| Poison Friends (2007) | "
It's intellectual without being dry, dramatic without bombast, smart without posturing." — Chicago Tribune Posted May 24, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 85%
| Paris, Je T'aime (2007) | "
You couldn't call it perfect -- the episodes are uneven -- but it has something that sometimes is better than perfection: real love for its subject and themes." — Chicago Tribune Posted May 24, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Rotten 45%
| Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) | "
The most visually spectacular, action-packed and surreal of the adventures of Capt. Jack Sparrow." — Chicago Tribune Posted May 23, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 88%
| Sacco & Vanzetti (2007) | "
Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, and the incredible firestorm of outrage generated by their criminal trials have been largely neglected in recent years, but Peter Miller's absolutely engrossing documentary Sacco and Vanzetti brings it all back." — Chicago Tribune Posted May 17, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 68%
| Everything's Gone Green (2007) | "
Everything's Gone Green is a romantic comedy/social satire that, on a modest budget, manages to be hip, charming, funny and dressed to kill." — Chicago Tribune Posted May 17, 2007 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 44%
| Fay Grim (2007) | "
Hal Hartley's Fay Grim strikes me as something of an elaborate mistake, a wasted opportunity and a script Hartley should have discarded. But I liked it anyway." — Chicago Tribune Posted May 17, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 88%
| Waitress (2007) | "
Written and directed by the late Adrienne Shelly, it's a scrumptious romantic comedy, a mostly adorable movie from a witty and winning movie talent whom we lost all too soon." — Chicago Tribune Posted May 10, 2007 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 47%
| Exterminating Angels (2007) | "
The content may be dubious, but the execution is hypnotic." — Chicago Tribune Posted May 10, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 18%
| Georgia Rule (2007) | "
Maybe Georgia Rule should be required viewing for Paris Hilton during her term in the slammer. But not for us." — Chicago Tribune Posted May 10, 2007 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 94%
| Away From Her (2007) | "
Bergmanesque and beautiful, set in a wintry landscape fitfully lit by one woman's flickering awareness and one man's long-term, stubborn love, Away from Her is one of the most remarkable and moving love stories the movies have recently given us." — Chicago Tribune Posted May 10, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 50%
| The Flying Scotsman (2007) | "
Tells a tale both fast and moving. And when Miller as Obree takes his whirls around the track, it gets your heart pumping and your blood up." — Chicago Tribune Posted May 4, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 75%
| Ping Pong (2002) | "
The movie has some of the feel of a good graphic novel and offers a lot of Japanese pop pleasures as well. The images are eye-catching and highly colorful, the pacing is fast, and the story and the characters are simple, grabby and archetypal." — Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 27, 2007 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 88%
| The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2007) | "
[Loach is] the master of the docu-drama or the realist social film, and Wind is one of his masterpieces." — Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 27, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Rotten 52%
| Disappearances (2006) | "
Shot for only $1.7 million, but it's a thoroughly entertaining, first-class job in every way." — Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 26, 2007 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 16%
| The Condemned (2007) | "
Despite a slick production and good actors, The Condemned is a real stinker." — Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 26, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 69%
| Year of the Dog (2007) | "
It's enjoyable in a dry but fervent way that most American comedies aren't." — Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 23, 2007 |
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