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Ted Shen

Agrees with the Tomatometer 82% of the time.

Publications:: Chicago Reader
Critics' Group:: Chicago Film Critics Association

Total Reviews:: 146

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
—	——	Girl in the Sneakers (2004)	— Chicago Reader Posted Sep 22, 2004
—	——	Among the Living (1941)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jul 20, 2004
—	——	Daai laap mat taam 008 (Forbidden City Cop) (1996)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jul 3, 2004
	42%	Callas Forever (2004)	" Despite a faintly campy script by Martin Sherman, Zeffirelli captures the artistic imperative that drives both characters -- and deepens their loneliness." — Chicago Reader Posted Jul 3, 2004
—	——	Cab for Three ()	— Chicago Reader Posted Jun 12, 2004
—	——	Madame Brouette (2002)	— Chicago Reader Posted May 8, 2004
	60%	Scumrock: It's Scumrock, Not Punk Rock! (1998)	" The characters in this video, denizens of the San Francisco art fringe, seem like they're heavily sedated." — Chicago Reader Posted Mar 17, 2004
—	24%	Red Trousers (2003)	— Chicago Reader Posted Mar 16, 2004
	——	Los Zafiros: Music from the Edge of Time ()	" The songs, exuberant or sad, speak for themselves, none of them more poignant than the one Cancio croons for Galban in a studio session, paying tribute to their time together." — Chicago Reader Posted Mar 16, 2004
—	——	Ngo ga yau yat chek hiu dung see (The Lion Roars) ()	— Chicago Reader Posted Feb 5, 2004
—	——	Blackmail Is My Life (2004)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 29, 2004
—	——	Hanuman (1998)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 10, 2004
—	——	Classic ()	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 10, 2004
—	——	Lunch With Charles ()	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 10, 2004
	72%	Robot Stories (2004)	" Accomplished 2002 quartet of vignettes about artificial human life." — Chicago Reader Posted Jan 10, 2004
—	——	Spaceways (1953)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 10, 2004
—	——	Mio min Mio (Mio in the Land of Faraway) (1987)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 10, 2004
—	——	Pinochet's Children ()	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 10, 2004
—	——	Telegraphist ()	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 10, 2004
—	——	Mapmaker (2001)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 10, 2004
	100%	Krzysztof Kieslowski: I'm So-So... (1998)	" He comes across as a modest, wryly funny, and intensely intellectual man, and his comments on both the ethics of filmmaking and his own work, from Camera Buff to the Three Colors trilogy, are fascinating." — Chicago Reader Posted Jan 10, 2004
—	——	The Opera Lover (1999)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 10, 2004
—	——	Life on Earth (2000)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 10, 2004
—	——	One-Armed Swordsman (2007)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 10, 2004
—	——	Touch Me Not ()	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 10, 2004
—	——	Sweet Evil (1998)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 10, 2004
—	——	Mondo Bobo ()	— Chicago Reader Posted Oct 16, 2003
—	——	Czesc Tereska (Hi Tessa) (2001)	— Chicago Reader Posted Sep 30, 2003
—	——	The Prodigal Son (1983)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jul 31, 2003
—	——	Being Claudine ()	— Chicago Reader Posted May 7, 2003
—	——	Rien à faire (Empty Days) (1999)	— Chicago Reader Posted May 6, 2003
—	——	Red Dirt (1999)	— Chicago Reader Posted Apr 24, 2003
—	——	Jue lai yip yue leung saan ang (Juliet in Love) (2000)	— Chicago Reader Posted Apr 24, 2003
—	60%	The Killer Is Loose (1956)	— Chicago Reader Posted Apr 15, 2003
	77%	Cremaster 2 (1999)	" A tantalizing melange of dreamlike riffs on the desolation of the American west, the empty poses of male ritual, and the blood lust of macho fetishism." — Chicago Reader Posted Apr 12, 2003
	62%	By Hook Or By Crook (2002)	" Remarkable debut feature." — Chicago Reader Posted Oct 2, 2002
	79%	Daughter from Danang (2004)	" Poignant if familiar story of a young person suspended between two cultures." — Chicago Reader Posted Oct 2, 2002
—	——	Domésticas ()	— Chicago Reader Posted Jul 28, 2002
	83%	Rockers (1980)	" Sounds from the golden age of reggae pulse through this breezy 1978 drama." — Chicago Reader Posted Jul 28, 2002
—	——	The Waiting Game (1999)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jul 28, 2002
—	——	Passover Fever ()	— Chicago Reader Posted Jul 28, 2002
—	55%	Freeze Me (2001)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jul 28, 2002
—	——	Cop on a Mission (2001)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jul 12, 2002
—	——	The After School Special ()	— Chicago Reader Posted Jun 26, 2002
—	33%	Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War ()	— Chicago Reader Posted Jun 23, 2002
	72%	Intacto (2002)	" Far-fetched premise, convoluted plot, and thematic mumbo jumbo about destiny and redemptive love." — Chicago Reader Posted Jun 23, 2002
	50%	Ocean Oasis (2001)	" The narration, although provided by an ecologist and a naturalist, is a redundant gush of New Age wonderment at sights better left to speak for themselves." — Chicago Reader Posted Jun 10, 2002
—	——	Resin ()	— Chicago Reader Posted Apr 27, 2002
	94%	Manito (2003)	" Eason captures with graphic realism the male rivalry, manic tensions, and social aspirations of a New York ethnic enclave." — Chicago Reader Posted Apr 25, 2002
—	50%	Chasing Sleep (2000)	— Chicago Reader Posted Apr 24, 2002
—	——	Savages (1972)	— Chicago Reader Posted Apr 24, 2002
—	——	Obachan's Garden ()	— Chicago Reader Posted Apr 24, 2002
—	——	Terrorists in Retirement ()	— Chicago Reader Posted Apr 15, 2002
—	——	Rukajärven tie (Ambush) (2002)	— Chicago Reader Posted Apr 7, 2002
—	——	The Art of Dying (1991)	— Chicago Reader Posted Feb 17, 2002
	87%	Under the Skin of the City (Zir-e Poust-e Shahr) (2003)	" Bani-Etemad's depiction of poverty and despair, approximating the tone and look of Italian neorealism, is stark and wrenching." — Chicago Reader Posted Jan 22, 2002
—	——	The Hidden Half (2001)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 19, 2002
—	——	Dead Dogs ()	— Chicago Reader Posted Oct 8, 2001
—	——	Gypsy Boys (1999)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jun 25, 2001
—	——	Passionate Thief ()	— Chicago Reader Posted May 23, 2001
	88%	Wild Style (1983)	" The pacing is slow -- inexcusable in a film about music -- except when hip-hop takes over, and Ahearn wisely gives plenty of screen time to the likes of Busy Bee, Rock Steady Crew, and Fab Five Freddy." — Chicago Reader Posted May 11, 2001
—	——	Leo (2000)	— Chicago Reader Posted Apr 20, 2001
—	——	Row Your Boat (2001)	— Chicago Reader Posted Apr 20, 2001
—	——	Mee Pok Man (1996)	— Chicago Reader Posted Apr 20, 2001
—	——	Journey of Jared Price (2001)	— Chicago Reader Posted Apr 16, 2001
—	——	Il Deserto dei Tartari (The Desert of the Tartars) (1976)	— Chicago Reader Posted Apr 11, 2001
—	——	Le Soldatesse ()	— Chicago Reader Posted Apr 11, 2001
	68%	La Ley de Herodes (Herod's Law) (2000)	" The actors are uniformly excellent, embracing their arch roles without succumbing to caricature." — Chicago Reader Posted Apr 11, 2001
—	——	Zero Kelvin ()	— Chicago Reader Posted Feb 14, 2001
—	——	Panny z Wilka (Young Girls of Wilko) (The Maids of Wilko) (1979)	— Chicago Reader Posted Feb 13, 2001
—	——	Downtown Torpedoes (1997)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000
—	——	Woman Called Sada Abe: Beyond the Realm of the Senses (2000)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000
—	——	Canoa (1975)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000
—	——	Ma Wing Jing (Hero) (1997)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000
—	——	Century of the Dragon (1999)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000
—	——	Blades (1994)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000
	——	Terra em Transe (Anguished Land)(Land Entranced) (1967)	" Rocha's frenzied mise-en-scene, which borrows from Fellini, Antonioni, and European avant-garde theater, is so stylized and self-referential that it probably appealed less to the masses than to the left-wing intelligentsia it scrutinizes." — Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000
—	——	Siberian Lady Macbeth (Sibirska Ledi Magbet) (2002)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000
—	——	Shanghai Grand (1996)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000
—	——	House of Mortal Sin (The Confessional) (2006)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000
—	——	Boli zhi cheng (City of Glass) (1998)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000
—	——	My Friend Joe (1996)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000
—	——	Circus Palestina (1998)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000
	——	Fakin' Da Funk (2000)	" Chey shows a keen ear for black English, a well-honed comic imagination, and an upbeat humanism; Zoltan David's camera work is outstanding, especially the bravura Steadicam opening shot." — Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000
—	——	When Nature Calls (The Outdoorsters) (1985)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000
—	——	In a Class of His Own (1999)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000
—	——	A True Mob Story (1999)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000
—	——	Longest Nite (1998)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000
—	——	A Hero Never Dies (1998)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000
—	——	Comanche Territory (1995)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000
—	88%	The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000
—	——	Her Name is Cat (1997)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000
—	——	Theft Under the Sun (1997)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000
—	——	Goo waak chai ching yee pin ji hung hing sap saam mooi (Portland Street Blues) (1998)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000
—	——	Hunting Flies ()	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000
—	——	Tamás és Juli (Tamas and Juli) (1997)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000

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