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Chicago Reader

  
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Rating Title Year Quote Author

Tomato

A Nous La Liberte (1931)

"A period piece in the best sense."

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Tomato
4/4

A Scanner Darkly (2006)

"An ambitious animated adaptation of one of the most personal novels by sci-fi visionary Philip K. Dick."

Andrea Gronvall

Tomato
4/4

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

"The most philosophical film in Kubrick's canon, the most intelligent in Spielberg's, and quite possibly the film with the most contemporary relevance that either one has made since Kubrick released Dr. Strangelove in 1964."

Jonathan Rosenbaum

-

A.P.E.X. (1994)

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-

Abandoned (1949)

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Splat

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

"This 1948 effort is probably the last of their watchable films, though it's a long way from their best."

Dave Kehr

-

Abigail's Party (1977)

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Tomato

About a Boy (2002)

"Few movies have made better use of Hugh Grant's shallow charm and amused befuddlement than this funny and well-paced adaptation of Nick Hornby's best-selling second novel."

J. R. Jones

Tomato

Abraham's Valley (1993)

"This beautifully shot, slow-moving, talky meditation on a life of leisure led by an adulterous woman differs most radically from Flaubert's novel in its indifference to the middle class."

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Splat

Absence of Malice (1981)

"The picture has a smug, demoralizing sense of pervasive corruption."

Dave Kehr

-

Absolute Beginners (1986)

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Tomato

Absolute Wilson (2006)

" Katharina Otto-Bernstein's documentary provides an excellent introduction to the singular vision of avant-garde stage director Robert Wilson."

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Splat

The Abyss (1989)

"The attempt to extract the essences of several genres (cold-war submarine thriller, love story, Disney fantasy, pseudomystical SF in the Spielberg mode) and mix them together ultimately leads to giddy incoherence."

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Tomato

Accattone (1961)

"The brutality and frigid despair of this 1962 film have had a lasting impact on political filmmaking."

Dave Kehr

Tomato

Accepted (2006)

"Sublimely stupid, this collegiate farce plays like a cross between Animal House and Ferris Bueller's Day Off."

J. R. Jones

Tomato

Ace in the Hole (1951)

"This 1951 film, about a cynical reporter who seizes on the plight of a man trapped in a mine shaft to promote his career, is cold, lurid, and fascinating, propelled by the same combination of moral outrage and sneaky admiration."

Dave Kehr

-

Across 110th Street (1972)

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Splat

Across the Universe (2007)

"The Rent-like ensemble of yearning young people at the center of the story is a drag; I wanted to turn the sound down on them and say rude things."

J. R. Jones

-

The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (1971)

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

-

Act of War (1999)

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-

The Actor (1993)

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Tomato

An Actor's Revenge (1963)

"One of the most dazzling and stylistically audacious Japanese films ever made."

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Splat

Adam (2009)

"Written and directed by Max Mayer, this anodyne romantic comedy is as predictable as the alphabet but should hold particular appeal to women whose maternal impulses inflect their mating instincts."

Cliff Doerksen

Tomato

Adam's Rib (1949)

"The film is a classic, and deservedly so: the conjunction of Tracy's sly listlessness and Hepburn's stridency defines 'chemistry' in the movies."

Splat

The Addams Family (1991)

"An extended collection of one-liners and not much more."

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Tomato

Addams Family Values (1993)

"The comedy has moved into high gear and become one of the funniest, most mean-spirited satirical assaults on sunny American values since the salad days of W.C. Fields."

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Tomato

The Addiction (1995)

"No matter, without exactly transcending the awful material, Ferrara puts it across with astonishing poetry and conviction."

Jonathan Rosenbaum

-

Adelheid (1969)

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Ted Shen

Tomato

Adoration (2009)

"Scott Speedman gives a piercing, intelligent performance."

J. R. Jones

Tomato

Adventureland (2009)

"Like its models, this is funny, smart, and complacent."

J. R. Jones

-

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)

"The film gives you the mildly annoying sensation of being left out of a not very good private joke."

Dave Kehr

-

Adventures of Don Juan (1949)

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Dave Kehr

-

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960)

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Tomato

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)

"Engaging and lively."

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Splat

The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)

"Another zillion-dollar dud."

J. R. Jones

Tomato

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

"Movies like this are beyond criticism."

Don Druker

Splat
2/4

Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3-D (2005)

"Nothing's scary, and everything's so light it's on the verge of evaporating."

Jonathan Rosenbaum

-

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)

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Dave Kehr

-

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)

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Dave Kehr

-

Aelita - Queen of Mars (1924)

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-

Afraid of Everything (2004)

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-

Afraid of the Dark (1992)

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Tomato

The African Queen (1951)

"The direction is often questionable, but the screenplay (by James Agee, John Collier, Huston, and Peter Viertel from C.S. Forester's novel) is a model of tight construction."

Don Druker

Tomato

After Hours (1985)

"Scorsese's orchestration of thematic development, narrative structure, and visual style is stunning in its detail and fullness; this 1985 feature reestablished him as one of the very few contemporary masters of filmmaking."

Dave Kehr

-

The After School Special (2000)

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Ted Shen

-

After the Fox (1966)

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Dave Kehr

Tomato

After the Rehearsal (1984)

"There is something liberating in the very schematism of the project: he no longer needs to pretend that his mouthpieces are real people."

Dave Kehr

Splat
2/4

After the Sunset (2004)

"A deliberately mindless action comedy that invites us to lose ourselves, without any PC guilt, in its hedonistic enticements."

Jonathan Rosenbaum

-

After the Thin Man (1936)

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Dave Kehr

Tomato

After The Wedding (2007)

"As the premise might suggest, Jensen's dramatic structure is so visible this sometimes seems like a late Rod Serling teleplay, but Bier has proved highly adept at merging conventional drama with the immediacy of the Dogma 95 movement."

J. R. Jones

  
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