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4/4
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88%
|
The Usual Suspects (1995) |
"
It's a nerve-shredding suspense movie about corruption, a bravura actor's show full of deliciously twisted cops and robbers, and a complex riddle packed with unexpected turns."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 18, 2013
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|
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
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|
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
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai) (1954) |
"
The greatest movie ever made about warriors and battle."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Mar 26, 2013
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|
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
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|
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
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|
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
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|
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
|
|
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
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|
4/4
|
79%
|
Private Fears in Public Places (Coeurs) (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
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|
4/4
|
100%
|
Voyna i Mir (War and Peace) (1967) |
"
If you haven't seen it, you have an incredible treat in store."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted May 31, 2007
|
|
4/4
|
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
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|
4/4
|
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
|
|
4/4
|
95%
|
Offside (2006) |
"
Jafar Panahi of Iran is one of his country's great filmmakers, and Offside is his best movie to date."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 20, 2007
|
|
4/4
|
86%
|
The Namesake (2006) |
"
The Namesake brims with intelligence, compassion and sensuous delight in the textures, sights and sounds of life -- all the way from the Taj Mahal to Pearl Jam."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Mar 15, 2007
|
|
4/4
|
94%
|
2 ou 3 Choses que je Sais d'Elle (Two or Three Things I Know About Her) (1967) |
"
Two or Three Things I Know About Her is one of the most beautiful films of the young Jean-Luc Godard, a great French cineaste, poet and frustrated lover."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Feb 22, 2007
|
|
4/4
|
96%
|
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) |
"
Pan succeeds both as a spectacular special-effects fantasy and as a psychological drama, with superb actors."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Dec 28, 2006
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game) (1950) |
"
There are about a dozen genuine miracles in the history of cinema, and one of them is Jean Renoir's supreme 1939 tragi-comedy The Rules of the Game."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Dec 28, 2006
|
|
4/4
|
66%
|
Curse of the Golden Flower (2006) |
"
Don't judge the film too quickly, though. It really is like almost nothing you've seen before."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Dec 21, 2006
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
Ugetsu monogatari (1954) |
"
A marvelously wise and moving classic, but also one full of sights that might make you cry, like Genjuro, 'I never imagined such pleasures existed!'"
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Nov 16, 2006
|
|
4/4
|
95%
|
49 Up (2006) |
"
I can think of no single movie, fictional or factual, that more strongly awakens our common humanity or that establishes such a marvelous, tight bond with its characters."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Nov 2, 2006
|
|
4/4
|
90%
|
Pandora's Box (1929) |
"
If you've never seen Brooks -- or Pandora's Box -- you've missed one of the most extraordinary personalities and films of the silent movie era."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Oct 12, 2006
|
|
4/4
|
90%
|
The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (Othello) (1952) |
"
Othello has been filmed numerous times, but never with such extraordinary visual grace and power."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Oct 6, 2006
|
|
4/4
|
80%
|
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2006) |
"
One of the most beautiful and touching road movies in recent years."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 14, 2006
|
|
4/4
|
75%
|
Gabrielle (2006) |
"
Husband and wife, upper-class couple Jean and Gabrielle Hervey, are played, to perfection, by two of France's premier film actors: Pascal Greggory and Isabelle Huppert."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 7, 2006
|
|
4/4
|
89%
|
Mujeres al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) (1988) |
"
A feminist comedy with real bite; it always brings down the house."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 31, 2006
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
The Fallen Idol (1949) |
"
As a portrait of the sometime destructiveness of innocence and as a sharp fresco of post-war Britain, this movie is a little masterpiece, an idol that has never fallen."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 25, 2006
|
|
4/4
|
94%
|
Days of Heaven (1978) |
"
Perhaps the most typical example of a '70s American art film -- daring, romantic, rebellious but also filled with longing for the beauty of the past."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jul 27, 2006
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
The Spirit of the Beehive (El Espíritu de la colmena) (2006) |
"
It's a film that transports us back not just to the sights and sounds of childhood but to a core of sweet innocence and sometimes ignorant bliss."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jul 6, 2006
|
|
4/4
|
86%
|
Zui hao de shi guang (Three Times) (2005) |
"
Great cinema, pop romance that carries a special charge."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 22, 2006
|
|
4/4
|
97%
|
L'Armée des ombres (Army in the Shadows) (1969) |
"
It becomes overwhelming as we watch -- a classic of life in the underground, of terror, love, friendship, betrayal, and of death hovering over all."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted May 25, 2006
|
|
4/4
|
89%
|
Cache (Hidden) (2005) |
"
A thriller with a powerful political subtext."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jan 12, 2006
|
|
4/4
|
91%
|
Professione: reporter (The Passenger) (1975) |
"
It's a movie from the past that still points ahead to the future: a cinematic rite of passage that raptly recalls a time when the world may have been as uncertain as now, but the movies were often lovelier and more daring."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Nov 10, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
92%
|
Saraband (2003) |
"
What remain intact are the filmmaker's unbreakable heart, lyrical soul and sublime art. So why should we say goodbye? Instead: Bravo. Encore."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 5, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
71%
|
The World (Shijie) (2005) |
"
With rich irony, The World juxtaposes the teasing, grand images of the outside world's wonders with the insular community and the mundane lives of the park employees."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jul 28, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
82%
|
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) |
"
An exhilarating and fanciful movie that never drowns in money or technology."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jul 14, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
74%
|
Land of the Dead (2005) |
"
Land of the Dead proves the most socially trenchant, irreverent and politically daring of the series, the one with the most food (and gore) for thought."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 23, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
86%
|
Howl's Moving Castle (2005) |
"
Confirms that Miyazaki is one of the most brilliant practitioners of the cartoon feature form ever."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 9, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
80%
|
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 3D (2013) |
"
...the scariest, most exciting, most visually prodigious of the sextet, with action sequences that explode off the screen, characters who finally awaken your sentiments..."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted May 16, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
92%
|
Masculin Feminin (1966) |
"
One of the quintessential '60s foreign art films, a bizarre melange of pop music, revolution, sex, movie allusions and poetry."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 14, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
95%
|
The Best of Youth (La meglio gioventù) (2003) |
"
A major cinema event of the year, a masterpiece of Italian film traditions in social/political realism and historical family epic."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Mar 31, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
81%
|
Oldboy (2005) |
"
It's a movie of such jaw-dropping violence, wild improbability and dazzling style it overpowers all resistance."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Mar 24, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
91%
|
Downfall (Der Untergang) (2004) |
"
Few movies indeed have ever more completely conveyed Arendt's juxtaposition of the evil that sent millions to their graves with the stultifying banality of their murderers' lives."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Mar 10, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
93%
|
Paths of Glory (1957) |
"
Both a terrifying, grim look at battle and an excruciatingly tense courtroom thriller. Together, it's a devastating indictment of war as conducted by opportunists and liars."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Feb 24, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
93%
|
Nobody Knows (Dare mo shiranai) (2004) |
"
Takes us on a journey into the special domain of childhood, a voyage joyous, shattering -- and supremely convincing."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Feb 17, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
67%
|
Notre Musique (2004) |
"
It will mean much more to those familiar with his work. But those moviegoers will experience intense pleasure in watching a great innovator at a personal high point."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jan 27, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
90%
|
Days of Being Wild (A Fei zheng chuan) (1990) |
"
A triumph of movie pop poetics."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jan 13, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
87%
|
The Aviator (2004) |
"
Sumptuously exciting, glowing with expertise, seething with life, gorgeously designed and thrillingly articulated."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Dec 24, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
88%
|
House of Flying Daggers (2004) |
"
It's as thrilling and lushly beautiful a movie as has been released all year, matched only by Zhang's epic Hero."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Dec 16, 2004
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