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Gene Siskel

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
2.5/4	5%	Cocktail (1988)	" Cruise is beguiling with his smile and his swagger, but the script doesn't take us anywhere fresh when it leaves the barroom." — Chicago Tribune Posted May 21, 2013
3/4	40%	Newsies (1992)	" An old-fashioned musical that is better when its characters sing and dance than when they talk." — Chicago Tribune Posted May 20, 2013
	22%	Color of Night (1994)	" Color of Night and North represent the nadir of Willis' plummeting film career. He can be a most engaging talent; his script selection of late has been awful." — Chicago Tribune Posted May 17, 2013
2.5/4	46%	Agnes of God (2002)	" Agnes of God plays with some challenging ideas and some sensationalistic events, but ultimately it fails to earn its right to toy with such subjects." — Chicago Tribune Posted May 8, 2013
3.5/4	97%	Groundhog Day (1993)	" Murray's wiseacre persona is perfect for what could be saccharine material in other hands." — Chicago Tribune Posted May 6, 2013
4/4	98%	One False Move (1992)	" Mixing moments of genuine terror with offbeat comedy, writers Tom Epperson and Thornton have created a script that jumps along with the energy of In Cold Blood." — Chicago Tribune Posted May 6, 2013
3.5/4	91%	Men in Black (1997)	" A smart, funny and hip adventure film in a summer of car wrecks and explosions." — Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 14, 2013
3/4	77%	The Mask (1994)	" Carrey and his aggressive overbite are back, but this time he's better used as an ingredient instead of as the plot." — Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 12, 2013
4/4	97%	Ran (1985)	" Ultimately it is this mixture of the grand gesture and the fine touch, the big world and the small people who occupy it, that lingers with us long after Ran is over." — Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 1, 2013
3/4	86%	Eight Men Out (1988)	" The ensemble performances are of such a uniformly high caliber that our interest in the story never wavers." — Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 20, 2013
4/4	82%	The Natural (1984)	" Being a baseball fan involves repeatedly experiencing exquisite pain and exquisite joy. Well, there's a lot of both in The Natural." — Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 19, 2013
4/4	97%	Bull Durham (1988)	" The acting in Bull Durham cannot be faulted and should be remembered at Oscar time. Sarandon has one of the juiciest female roles in years and she makes you think no one could play it better." — Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 11, 2013
3.5/4	96%	Amadeus (1984)	" The subject of artistic creation is typically handled badly in the movies.... [Amadeus] treats the subject of creativity in a fresh way." — Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 20, 2013
3.5/4	71%	Forrest Gump (1994)	" Credit for the success of the film has to start with director Robert Zemeckis, who has taken his Back to the Future and Who Framed Roger Rabbit success and parlayed it into a more mature, yet equally entertaining, film." — Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 20, 2013
4/4	88%	Platoon (1986)	" Platoon is filled with one fine performance after another, and one can only wish that every person who saw the cartoonish war fantasy that was Rambo would buy a ticket to Platoon and bear witness to something closer to the truth." — Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 19, 2013
3.5/4	88%	Rain Man (1988)	" The strength of the film is really that of Cruise's performance, his finest since Risky Business." — Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 6, 2013
3/4	55%	Top Gun (1986)	" The aerial sequences in Top Gun are as thrilling -- while remaining coherent -- as any ever put on film." — Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 6, 2013
3/4	92%	On Golden Pond (1981)	" There is a natural rhythm to the film that makes its own quiet, life-affirming statement." — Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 6, 2013
3/4	85%	Chariots of Fire (1981)	" Although it is extremely well made, I frankly don't understand what the shouting is about. Good, yes; great, no." — Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 6, 2013
3/4	92%	Rocky (1976)	" Sylvester Stallone [is] as likable as a basset hound." — Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 6, 2013
4/4	92%	The Deer Hunter (1978)	" Is it as good as its advance word and nine Academy Award nominations suggest? Yes." — Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 6, 2013
3.5/4	93%	Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)	" What places it a sizable cut about the routine is its spectacular visual effects, the best since Stanley Kubrick's 2001." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 18, 2013
4/4	87%	Terms of Endearment (1983)	" Terms of Endearment is about three relationships and students of screenwriting would do well to study the way in which these three stories are told completely and effortlessly in a movie of average length." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 18, 2013
2.5/4	98%	Chinatown (1974)	" As much as I admire the work of both Polanski and Nicholson, I found Chinatown tedious from beginning to just before the end." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 18, 2013
4/4	87%	The Exorcist (1973)	" I loved it." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 18, 2013
3/4	100%	Sleeper (1973)	" These days, comedy beggars can't be choosers. Woody Allen is about all we've got. And Woody, please stay healthy." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 18, 2013
4/4	100%	The Godfather (1972)	" To permit us a glimpse at The Mob, with all of its ethnic insularity, is like giving a chronic gambler a chance to wander above the false mirrors that overlook every casino." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 18, 2013
4/4	89%	A Clockwork Orange (1971)	" Kubrick's contributions are his wit and his eye. The wit, too much at times, is as biting as in Dr. Strangelove, and the production, while of another order, is as spectacular as in 2001." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 18, 2013
4/4	98%	The French Connection (1971)	" There is only one problem with the excitement generated by this film. After it is over, you will walk out of the theater and, as I did, curse the tedium of your own life. I kept looking for someone who I could throw up against a wall." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 18, 2013
4/4	86%	Five Easy Pieces (1970)	" Nicholson makes it all go. He proves he is more than a "character actor" with many scenes, especially the confrontation with his father." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 18, 2013
4/4	90%	MAS*H (MASH) (1970)	" *For me, MASH contains as much depression as humor.*" — Chicago Tribune* Posted Jan 18, 2013
3.5/4	88%	Midnight Cowboy (1969)	" I cannot recall a more marvelous pair of acting performances in any one film." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 18, 2013
4/4	93%	Z (1969)	" It is a great film for many reasons, not the least of which is that it can be enjoyed as a political thriller as well as a political statement." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 18, 2013
	——	Rascal (1969)	" Walt Disney Productions, after adapting (Sterling) North's book, gives us a raccoon so talented that you wonder if Gentle Ben and Flipper aren't under-achievers." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 18, 2013
4/4	94%	Pulp Fiction (1994)	" If you smile at David Mamet's dialogue, you'll laugh out loud at the words of Quentin Tarantino." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 16, 2013
4/4	97%	Schindler's List (1993)	" What Spielberg has done in this Holocaust story is simply and forcefully place us there." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 16, 2013
1/4	25%	Under the Cherry Moon (1986)	" [An] absurdly bad movie." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 16, 2013
1/4	29%	Up Close & Personal (1996)	" Is it worse as a love story or as a drama about the sorry state of television news? The answer: It's a tie." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 16, 2013
2/4	84%	Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)	" A film that doesn't seem to know what it's about until the end." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 16, 2013
3/4	80%	Flight of the Navigator (1986)	" This children's adventure turns out to be, despite its title, less of a Star Wars trip than an entertaining variation on the time-travel adventure Back to the Future." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 16, 2013
0.5/4	52%	Friday the 13th, Part VI - Jason Lives (1986)	" The murderous Jason is back in the latest chapter of the most offensive series in film history, unless Burt Reynolds makes three more Smokey and the Bandit pictures real quick." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 16, 2013
3.5/4	83%	Desert Hearts (1998)	" The story is not sensationalistic, although its love scene could not be more emotional. It`s a gentle story of someone being brought in from the cold." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 16, 2013
3/4	92%	Back to School (1986)	" In this very funny Rodney Dangerfield comedy, there has been an important shift in Rodney's entertainment persona, a shift that has made this small film a monster hit. " — Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 16, 2013
2/4	98%	Aliens (1986)	" Count me out of the fan club for this one." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 16, 2013
3.5/4	82%	About Last Night... (1986)	" This is the yuppie drama that St. Elmo`s Fire wanted to be but wasn't." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 16, 2013
4/4	100%	Sans Toit ni Loi (Vagabond) (Without Roof or Rule) (1985)	" A masterpiece, clearly one of the finest films in many a year." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 16, 2013
3.5/4	88%	Titanic (2012)	" With his beatific, sweet, open face, DiCaprio gives us a rooting interest in hoping that someone important to us survives the wreck." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 16, 2013
2/4	46%	Heartburn (1986)	" This is the most disappointing film of the year, considering its pedigree -- a Mike Nichols film from a Nora Ephron script, starring Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 16, 2013
1/4	15%	Howard the Duck (1986)	" Who was this stupid film made for?" — Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 16, 2013

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