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'Out 1': The 12-Hour Masterpiecenew
After years of obscurity, Jacques Rivette's puzzling film finally makes it to Chicago.
Chicago Reader |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
05-29-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Jacques Rivette, Out 1
'Chalk': Teacher's Pestsnew
In this high school mockumentary in the style of The Office, the students are the bad guys.
Chicago Reader |
J.R. Jones |
05-29-2007 |
Reviews
'Away From Her': Memory and Marriagenew
Talented young filmmaker Sarah Polley explores the nature of relationships and the tragedy of Alzheimer's.
Chicago Reader |
J.R. Jones |
05-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Away from Her, Sarah Polley
Not for Beginnersnew
If you don't get Aqua Teen Hunger Force the movie, it's because you don't watch Aqua Teen Hunger Force the TV show.
Chicago Reader |
Brian Nemtusak |
04-30-2007 |
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Don't Judge a Film by Its Venuenew
Black Book brings moral complexity to the mall and Offside brings lighthearted humor to the art house.
Chicago Reader |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
04-23-2007 |
Reviews
Two Takes on the Truthnew
Lasse Hallstrom's The Hoax, a hoax about a hoax, and Linda Hattendorf's The Cats of Mirikitani, a work of art about an artist.
Chicago Reader |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
04-09-2007 |
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A Gag-Comedy Remakenew
But the Eric Rohmer remake isn't the career milestone Rock wants it to be.
Chicago Reader |
J.R. Jones |
03-19-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Chris Rock, I Think I Love My Wife
Trial of the Centurynew
Globalism gets a hearing in a dusty African backyard in Bamako.
Chicago Reader |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
03-13-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Abderrahmane Sissako, Bamako
The Nader Strategynew
A new documentary suggests that the only way to make Democrats listen is to vote for someone like Ralph Nader.
Chicago Reader |
J.R. Jones |
03-06-2007 |
Reviews
License to Lienew
A biopic that isn't accurate can still be true.
Chicago Reader |
J.R. Jones |
02-20-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Factory Girl, George Hickenlooper
Truth in Doodlingnew
Don Hertzfeldt's seemingly primitive animation addresses our most primal concerns.
Chicago Reader |
J.R. Jones |
02-12-2007 |
Reviews
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
Difference Between Smart and Wisenew
For the big screen, Alan Bennett presents a less cynical version of his play about what an education is good for.
Chicago Reader |
J.R. Jones |
12-11-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Nicholas Hytner, The History Boys
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 |
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