|
1/4
|
0%
|
Wagons East! (1994) |
"
A sunshiney hodgepodge of bad jokes, nice scenery and reverse stereotypes."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted May 22, 2013
|
|
0.5/4
|
7%
|
In the Army Now (1994) |
"
The movie's best performance is given by a camel."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted May 22, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
8%
|
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987) |
"
It's a gross parody of its original. And since the original was a gross parody to begin with, the whole thing begins to seem gaseous, overbright, hideously inflated, as if all the bodily function jokes were about to belch it right off the screen."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 21, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
6%
|
Vibes (1988) |
"
Vibes is a low-vibration romantic comedy about two incompatible psychics falling in love on an Ecuadorean treasure hunt, and everything in it seems nine or 10 beats off."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 21, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
40%
|
Newsies (1992) |
"
Certain movies engage your affections so strongly that, even if they start to fall apart, you tend to keep rooting for them. That's pretty much the case with Newsies."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 20, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
29%
|
The House of the Spirits (1994) |
"
The flaws aren't fatal. The beauty and brilliance that might have been, don't preclude the quality and bravery that exist on the screen."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted May 20, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
31%
|
Square Dance (Home is Where the Heart Is) (1987) |
"
story can move you even if it's predictable, and that's what Square Dance accomplishes. It makes contact with its people, its land; it makes us feel for them; it hews out a slice of the earth, our earth, and makes it real."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 20, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
22%
|
Color of Night (1994) |
"
It's a psycho-erotic thriller with more twists and shocks than the rattlesnake which, at one point, leaps out at star Bruce Willis-from a location we won't describe. (It would spoil one of the several dozen surprises.)"
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted May 17, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
94%
|
Pulp Fiction (1994) |
"
This movie gets its charge not from action pyrotechnics but from its electric barrage of language, wisecracks and dialogue, from the mordant '70s classicism of its long-take camera style and its smart, offbeat, strangely sexy cast."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted May 15, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
0%
|
Mac and Me (1988) |
"
It's an amazingly bald-faced copy of E. T. even though this is E. T. in a sticky wrapper, left under the heater two hours too long."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 14, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
80%
|
The Boxer (1997) |
"
Though we've seen this unquiet terrain before, this new film about boxing, star-crossed lovers and the Irish Republican Army temporarily gives us fresh eyes."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted May 14, 2013
|
|
1.5/5
|
14%
|
Dead Heat (1988) |
"
On the screen, it seems to be like a walking corpse itself: jerking around malevolently, with putrefying limbs, a fixed, grisly smile on its face and absolutely no spontaneity."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 13, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
20%
|
Kickboxer 2: The Road Back (1990) |
"
Kickboxer 2 is better than Kickboxer, the 1989 Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle that spawned it. But you have to realize this is a relative judgment, since that first movie... is widely regarded as a cinematic disgrace."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 13, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
69%
|
Dance Me Outside (1994) |
"
Funny, scary, appealing and bizarre."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted May 8, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
70%
|
In Country (1989) |
"
There's a decency about this movie that's almost palpable. It's not trying to pump us up with false jingoism or the sins of the past. Jewison, a Canadian, probably approaches the entire subject with a mediatory mood."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 7, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
59%
|
Twin Peaks - Fire Walk with Me (1992) |
"
At its best, it's a dream within a dream, a nightmare in endlessly reflecting pop mirrors, a screen full of TV-movie sex and horror kitsch blowing up right in our faces."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
34%
|
Hackers (1995) |
"
This is a movie that sums up the worst of the computer era: zapping you with techno-cliches and trapping you in constant visual crash and burn."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
31%
|
Hugo Pool (1997) |
"
It's as if Downey Sr.'s irreverence and off-the-wall humor couldn't quite co-exist with the heartfelt tribute he intends to make here to his wife and her fellow Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis sufferers."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted May 1, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
98%
|
The Wild Bunch (1969) |
"
The Wild Bunch is an American masterpiece, one of the greatest films ever produced in the Hollywood system."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 29, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
78%
|
Addams Family Values (1993) |
"
At its best, it's a valentine of venom, sent with mirth and malice aforethought."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
82%
|
The Crow (1994) |
"
What's scary about The Crow is the story and the style itself: American Gothic, Poe-haunted nightmare, translated to the age of cyberpunk science fiction, revenge movies and outlaw rock 'n' roll, all set in a hideously decaying, crime-ridden urban hell."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 10, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
65%
|
Reality Bites (1993) |
"
It's a good example of an anti-establishment comedy crippled by a seeming desire to infatuate the establishment itself. What Reality Bites needs most is a good bite. From reality."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Mar 27, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai) (1954) |
"
The greatest movie ever made about warriors and battle."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Mar 26, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
8%
|
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn (1998) |
"
A comedy without laughs, an expose without point."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Mar 25, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
93%
|
Matewan (1987) |
"
When this movie stumbles, it stumbles honestly and sympathetically, but, when it succeeds, it makes history sing."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
87%
|
Field of Dreams (1989) |
"
All of this would work better if Robinson built up the reality of the town more, made the citizens a more palpable presence, as Frank Capra did in Hollywood's greatest fable-fantasy, It's a Wonderful Life."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 20, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
67%
|
Cobb (1994) |
"
[Jones] lets it all loose here. It's the performance of a lifetime: full of menace and venom, eloquence and fire, rot and pathos, crackling rawness and realism."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Mar 19, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
95%
|
Touch of Evil (1958) |
"
Having the Touch of Evil envisioned by our most creative filmmaker, is a wondrous gift no movie lover should miss."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Mar 12, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
85%
|
The Devil Probably (Le diable probablement) (1977) |
"
Bresson, as always, holds on to that grace, gives us that beauty. While watching this great rapt film, with its hideous vision of a moral void, we almost can see light flickering in darkness, feel a spirit descending."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Mar 5, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
Suna no Onna (Woman in the Dunes) (1964) |
"
In stunningly composed images by Teshigahara and cinematographer Hiroshi Segawa, that eroticism becomes overwhelming."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Mar 4, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
98%
|
The Godfather, Part II (1974) |
"
One of the most ambitious and brilliantly executed American films, a landmark work from one of Hollywood's top cinema eras."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Feb 24, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
81%
|
Braveheart (1995) |
"
In this mix of historical tragedy and hip adventure, Gibson may be as galvanic a movie swashbuckler as Errol Flynn and Burt Lancaster were in their day."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Feb 24, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
71%
|
Forrest Gump (1994) |
"
This tall tale may reach monumental proportions, but Forrest Gump always keeps its magical airiness and grace."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Feb 20, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
65%
|
Mama (2013) |
"
Mama is something of a throwback, and at times a stunning one."
—
Daily Herald (IL)
Posted Jan 17, 2013
|
|
|
78%
|
The City of Lost Children (La Cité des Enfants Perdus) (1995) |
"
Set in a wondrously seedy waterfront world populated with runaway children and grotesque, sinister adults, it glistens with dense fantasies, technological feats that make the catch-phrase "state of the art" seem antique."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Dec 7, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
They Live (1988) |
"
The joke is in the material; the idea itself is funny and daring. And some time soon, They Live suggests, with grim, knowing wink, the joke may be on us."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 10, 2012
|
|
1.5/5
|
0%
|
Rad (1986) |
"
The whole thing reminds you more of an overanxious teacher or coach, taking a few slang words and repeating them endlessly in a doomed attempt to "relate.""
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 21, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
The Dirt Bike Kid (1986) |
"
The special effects often seem to consist of dragging the dirt bike around on a string or having the actors flail their arms in astonishment while riding it."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 17, 2012
|
|
|
76%
|
Someone to Watch over Me (1987) |
"
Illogical, flawed or forced thrillers are all too common. Ones that knock your eyes out are rare."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 3, 2012
|
|
|
82%
|
Trollhunter (2011) |
"
The film is shot with handheld cameras in the standard mockumentary style, but the content is often hilarious, especially when the trolls show up."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Dec 13, 2011
|
|
|
35%
|
Battle: Los Angeles (2011) |
"
Terminally stupid."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Dec 6, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
81%
|
Biloxi Blues (1988) |
"
Broderick acts with a beautifully wary exuberance, full of a puckish vulnerability and anxious, twisted impishness."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 26, 2011
|
|
|
24%
|
The Three Musketeers (2011) |
"
This one is overblown, over-dressed, and grandiosely dopey, packed with gargantuan sets and ludicrous action scenes and shot in unusually dark and dingy 3-D."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Oct 20, 2011
|
|
|
17%
|
I Don't Know How She Does It (2011) |
"
It's smart, swanky, and good-looking, but strangely, it's not all that funny."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Sep 15, 2011
|
|
|
26%
|
Colombiana (2011) |
"
Often improbable, sometimes ludicrous, but frequently exciting."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Sep 1, 2011
|
|
|
58%
|
Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark (2011) |
"
The remake plays like a shallower, more clichéd variation on his masterpiece, Pan's Labyrinth, but its mix of gory effects and deliciously old-fashioned visuals make for a classy, scary horror show."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Aug 25, 2011
|
|
|
95%
|
The Guard (2011) |
"
Brendan Gleeson, as beefily Irish an actor as anyone since Victor McLaglen, is always believable and frequently hilarious."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Aug 5, 2011
|
|
|
25%
|
The Change-Up (2011) |
"
They're good at their specialties -- Reynolds's casual jock studliness and Bateman's nervous white-collar introversion -- and they're even better at switching into the other guy's shtick and mannerisms."
—
Chicago Reader
Posted Aug 4, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
63%
|
The Afterlight (2010) |
"
The director-writer-editor pair, and cinematographer White, show a sheer love of moviemaking that often makes their film a joy to watch."
—
Movie City News
Posted Jul 6, 2011
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