
Cliff Doerksen
Chicago Reader critic
Movies reviews only
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Prisoner of Her Past (2010) |
Dry-eyed but deeply moving, this Kartemquin Films documentary by Gordon Quinn follows Reich (longtime jazz critic for the Chicago Tribune) on a journey of discovery back to the family's native village of Dubno, Poland. It's riveting stuff. - Chicago Reader
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| Posted Apr 14, 2016
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Sicko (2007) |
Equal parts laugh-riot and call to arms. - Time Out Chicago
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| Posted Aug 05, 2013
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Post Grad (2009) |
Director Vicky Jenson has a sitcom script on her hands and proceeds accordingly. - Chicago Reader
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| Posted Jun 10, 2013
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Garbo: The Spy (2009) |
Edmon Roch spins a zippy yarn of Pujol's improbable exploits from archival footage, talking heads, and clips from classic espionage dramas. - Chicago Reader
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| Posted Dec 08, 2011
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Helvetica (2007) |
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| Posted Nov 18, 2011
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Hula Girls (2006) |
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| Posted Nov 18, 2011
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2 Days in Paris (2007) |
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| Posted Nov 18, 2011
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Halloween (2007) |
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| Posted Nov 18, 2011
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28 Weeks Later (2007) |
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| Posted Nov 18, 2011
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The Edge of Heaven (2007) |
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| Posted Nov 18, 2011
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Crazy Love (2007) |
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| Posted Nov 18, 2011
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Away From Her (2006) |
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| Posted Nov 18, 2011
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Talk to Me (2007) |
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| Posted Nov 18, 2011
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The 11th Hour (2007) |
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| Posted Nov 18, 2011
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The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007) |
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| Posted Nov 18, 2011
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The Invasion (2007) |
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| Posted Nov 18, 2011
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Exiled (2006) |
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| Posted Nov 18, 2011
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The Hottest State (2006) |
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| Posted Nov 18, 2011
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Rocket Science (2007) |
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| Posted Nov 18, 2011
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Death Sentence (2007) |
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| Posted Nov 18, 2011
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Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman (2006) |
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| Posted Nov 18, 2011
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War and Peace (1966) |
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| Posted Nov 18, 2011
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Poisoned by Polonium: The Litvinenko File (2007) |
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| Posted Nov 18, 2011
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Death at a Funeral (2007) |
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| Posted Nov 18, 2011
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Them (2006) |
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| Posted Nov 18, 2011
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My Best Friend (2006) |
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| Posted Nov 17, 2011
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No End in Sight (2007) |
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| Posted Nov 17, 2011
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Walking to Werner (2006) |
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| Posted Nov 17, 2011
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Hollywood Dreams (2006) |
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| Posted Nov 17, 2011
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Waitress (2007) |
Essentially a king-size serving of sitcom - Time Out Chicago
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| Posted Nov 17, 2011
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Black Sheep (2006) |
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| Posted Nov 17, 2011
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Macbeth (2006) |
Something weakened this way comes, you could say. - Time Out
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| Posted Nov 17, 2011
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Vitus (2006) |
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| Posted Nov 17, 2011
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Red Road (2006) |
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| Posted Nov 17, 2011
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In the Land of Women (2007) |
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| Posted Nov 17, 2011
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Goya's Ghosts (2006) |
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| Posted Nov 17, 2011
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Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox (2006) |
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| Posted Nov 17, 2011
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Jindabyne (2006) |
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| Posted Nov 17, 2011
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The Jane Austen Book Club (2007) |
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| Posted Nov 17, 2011
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Miss Potter (2006) |
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| Posted Nov 17, 2011
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Dans Paris (2006) |
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| Posted Nov 17, 2011
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12:08 East of Bucharest (2006) |
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| Posted Nov 17, 2011
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Paris, je t'aime (2006) |
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| Posted Nov 17, 2011
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Delirious (2006) |
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| Posted Nov 17, 2011
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The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) |
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| Posted Nov 17, 2011
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Black Book (2006) |
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| Posted Nov 16, 2011
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Samson & Delilah (2009) |
This sterling 2009 debut by Warwick Thornton is harrowing and tragic but has a stoic, stately realism that elevates the material way above victim politics. - Chicago Reader
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| Posted Jan 04, 2011
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A Film Unfinished (2009) |
Filmmaker Yael Hersonski reshapes the impossibly vile and tragic source material into a devastating record of Nazi criminality. - Chicago Reader
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| Posted Jan 04, 2011
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Mugabe and the White African (2009) |
The result is part legal thriller, part five-hankie melodrama. - Chicago Reader
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| Posted Jan 04, 2011
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Agora (2009) |
This Spanish-produced period drama is pretty dreadful: the drama is torpid, the astronomy lessons pedantic, and the spear-and-sandal production values flat-out cheesy. - Chicago Reader
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| Posted Jan 03, 2011
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