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New Perspectivesnew
Clint Eastwood looks at WW II from the losing side in Letters From Iwo Jima; Karen Moncrieff slices and dices the usual slasher narrative in The Dead Girl.
Chicago Reader |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
01-17-2007 |
Reviews
Thinking Inside the Boxnew
In Pan's Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro makes genre work for him -- in Children of Men, Alfonso Cuaron lets it get in his way.
Chicago Reader |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
01-08-2007 |
Reviews
Around the World in 1,085 Pagesnew
Round one with Pynchon's longest and busiest novel.
Chicago Reader |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
12-04-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon
Bites of Realitynew
Death of a President wants to function as a mindless thriller that eventually makes us think -- and only after the film is over question the form that encouraged us to be mindless.
Chicago Reader |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
10-30-2006 |
Reviews
