Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Ikiru (1952) | "
Akira Kurosawa's greatest film." — Chicago Reader Posted Apr 27, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Dark Corner (1946) | "
A pretty good thriller." — Chicago Reader Posted Apr 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Chinatown (1974) | "
Polanski's film suggests that the rules of the game are written in some strange, untranslatable language, and that everyone's an alien and, ultimately, a victim." — Chicago Reader Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
— | N/A | There Was a Father (1942) |
Click here to read article — Chicago Reader Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 81%
| On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) | "
Director Peter Hunt manages to inject some life into this 1969 exercise with a wonderful ski chase, but otherwise the film is a bore." — Chicago Reader Posted Oct 13, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| The Women (1939) | "
[Cukor is] at his best with a cast that includes Rosalind Russell, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Hedda Hopper, Ruth Hussey, Paulette Goddard, and Joan Fontaine." — Chicago Reader Posted Sep 11, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 74%
| Charlotte's Web (1973) | "
It preserves some of the form and language of White's original but fattens and sweetens his lean and pungent prose with songs by Richard and Robert Sherman." — Chicago Reader Posted Sep 9, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 86%
| Fantastic Planet (1973) | "
The film has a flat quality that cannot entirely be overcome by the sensational animation and the obvious good intentions of its creators." — Chicago Reader Posted Sep 9, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Pat and Mike (1952) | "
The best of the Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn cycle." — Chicago Reader Posted Aug 4, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| The Blue Angel (1930) | "
The first film collaboration between Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich, this reeks with decay and sexuality." — Chicago Reader Posted Jul 28, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Richard III (1955) | "
Laurence Olivier's classic rendition (1956) of Shakespeare's total villain contains one of his most engaging performances and reveals some of his best spatial manipulation of action." — Chicago Reader Posted Jul 9, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 61%
| The Way We Were (1973) | "
A for effort; C for execution." — Chicago Reader Posted May 26, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 89%
| And Now for Something Completely Different (1971) | "
Fans will have most of it memorized by now." — Chicago Reader Posted May 14, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Big Heat (1953) | "
Brutal, atmospheric, and exciting -- highly recommended." — Chicago Reader Posted Apr 9, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Killers (1946) | "
An example of film noir at its most expressive." — Chicago Reader Posted Apr 8, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Blazing Saddles (1974) | "
One of the funniest awful movies ever made." — Chicago Reader Posted Apr 2, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| California Split (1974) | "
Robert Altman's masterful 1974 study of the psychology of the compulsive gambler." — Chicago Reader Posted Mar 25, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 57%
| Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) | "
The music quickly becomes monotonous, and the operatic dialogue is silly right from the start." — Chicago Reader Posted Mar 19, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| The Quiet Man (1952) | "
John Ford's 1952 Oscar winner is a tribute to an Ireland that exists only in the imaginations of songwriters and poets like Ford." — Chicago Reader Posted Mar 11, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| And Now My Love (1974) | "
If Lelouch's sensibilities are too flimsy to substantiate his quasi-epic ambitions, the film nevertheless offers some cozy comforts and more than a few inside filmmaking jokes." — Chicago Reader Posted Jan 15, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 75%
| A Man and a Woman (1966) | "
It's full of misty romps in the meadows, rain-soaked windshields, assorted puppies and lambs, and a 'bittersweet' theme song that drones incessantly on the sound track." — Chicago Reader Posted Jan 15, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Top Hat (1935) | "
This 1935 musical finds Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at the top of their form." — Chicago Reader Posted Jan 11, 2008 |
Fresh
| N/A | Lady Windermere's Fan (1925) | "
One of Ernst Lubitsch's greatest accomplishments." — Chicago Reader Posted Jan 11, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Children of Paradise (1945) | "
It runs 187 minutes, and it's worth every one of them." — Chicago Reader Posted Jan 9, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| A Raisin in the Sun (1961) | "
It does have enough gritty insights and (for the time) strikingly accurate production details to keep the level of interest up." — Chicago Reader Posted Nov 13, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) | "
Stanley Kramer strikes out again with this elephantine 1963 attempt at uproarious comedy." — Chicago Reader Posted Nov 7, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Oliver Twist (1948) | "
Alec Guinness as the master pickpocket Fagin is the high point of David Lean's 1948 version of the Dickens classic." — Chicago Reader Posted Nov 6, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 86%
| Brief Encounter (1946) | "
Rarely rises above the level of the old women's magazines." — Chicago Reader Posted Nov 6, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Great Expectations (1946) | "
The graveyard scene is still a shocker, the details are still astonishingly well assembled, and the performances are wonderful." — Chicago Reader Posted Nov 6, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Pygmalion (1938) | "
A marvelous 1938 adaptation of the Shaw classic." — Chicago Reader Posted Nov 6, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| The Day of the Jackal (1973) | "
It's a polished and exciting thriller, mercifully unburdened with heavy political/philosophical digressions." — Chicago Reader Posted Nov 1, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| The Last Detail (1974) | "
A tough-talking, sparely directed effort by Hal Ashby, with an immaculate performance by Jack Nicholson." — Chicago Reader Posted Oct 31, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Pratidwandi (1972) | "
Ray's incredible warmth and superbly understated visual style can charm even those (like me) who don't find his films particularly compelling." — Chicago Reader Posted Oct 24, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1965) | "
Pasolini uses a complex but seemingly stark and simple visual style, and he evokes wonderful performances from nonprofessionals Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, and Marcello Morante." — Chicago Reader Posted Oct 23, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | "
The archetypal Joan Crawford movie." — Chicago Reader Posted Oct 17, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) | "
Movies like this are beyond criticism." — Chicago Reader Posted Oct 16, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Cat People (1942) | "
More a film about unreasoning fear than the supernatural, this work demonstrates what a filmmaker can accomplish when he substitutes taste and intelligence for special effects." — Chicago Reader Posted Sep 26, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Theatre of Blood (1973) | "
Gory, imaginative, wildly melodramatic -- good fun." — Chicago Reader Posted Sep 25, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| FAUST (1926) | "
As atmospheric and menacing a work as the expressionist movement ever produced." — Chicago Reader Posted Sep 25, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) | "
Aldrich's direction and dynamite performances from the two old troupers make this film an experience." — Chicago Reader Posted Sep 24, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| I Walked With a Zombie (1943) | "
It transcends the conventions of the horror genre and remains one of Lewton-Tourneur's most compelling studies in light and darkness." — Chicago Reader Posted Sep 24, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Deliverance (1972) | "
John Boorman's 1972 film of the James Dickey novel has a beautiful visual style that balances the film's machismo message." — Chicago Reader Posted Sep 18, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| A Hard Day's Night (1964) | "
American-born director Richard Lester serves up a helping of what, on this side of the pond, we came to think of as kicky, mod British filmmaking." — Chicago Reader Posted Sep 10, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Love in the Afternoon (1957) | "
As Andrew Sarris says, not without its cruelties, but not without its beauties as well." — Chicago Reader Posted Aug 15, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| One, Two, Three (1961) | "
The pace is blistering, and Wilder's deep-seated hatred of Germans has never been put to more comic use." — Chicago Reader Posted Aug 15, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| The Fortune Cookie (1966) | "
Wildly funny in spots..." — Chicago Reader Posted Aug 15, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Ball of Fire (1941) | "
A delight." — Chicago Reader Posted Aug 14, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Midnight (1939) | "
Funny and forgettable." — Chicago Reader Posted Aug 14, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Stalag 17 (1953) | "
The resulting letdown is terrific, but along the way there is some of the funniest men-at-loose-ends interplay that Wilder has ever put on film." — Chicago Reader Posted Aug 14, 2007 |
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