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4/4	"This is a superb picture, sharp, open-minded, wised-up and cinematically accomplished. I wonder if any man could've handled the Polanski enigma with the same ironic intelligence [Marina] Zenovich has." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 24, 2008	Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)	85%
4/4	"Nolan paints an inky portrait of a city falling apart, and in a movie rife with two-faced masquerading freaks, the Joker is merely the least conflicted of the bunch. Ledger's work is improbably droll, impossibly creepy, meticulously detailed." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 16, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	95%
2/2	"*If you went for Sin City* or Shoot 'Em Up, you'll probably enjoy Wanted. I like my trash with a little less fetishism when it comes to instruments of slaughter.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Jun 26, 2008	Wanted (2008)	72%
4/4	"It's remarkable to see any film, in any genre, blend honest sentiment with genuine wit and a visual landscape unlike any other." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 26, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	96%
4/4	"*A kinetic delight, Reprise* comes from director Joachim Trier, born in Denmark but raised in Oslo, Norway, and it's a highlight of the filmgoing year so far.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted May 22, 2008	Reprise (2008)	88%
4/4	"Plenty of well-meaning filmmakers advertise emotion without contextualizing it. Hou's latest film feels to me like a masterpiece responding intuitively to a masterpiece." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 18, 2008	The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008)	78%
4/4	"With the sublimely moving Snow Angels, writer-director David Gordon Green has made the best film about parents, children and relational perils since Little Children." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 20, 2008	Snow Angels (2008)	67%
4/4	"Still Life is the first great film of the year. It's beautiful but so much more--full of subtle feeling, framed by a monstrous, eroding landscape." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 21, 2008	Still Life (2008)	91%
4/4	"This is a beautiful film about ugly circumstances, set in 1987 near the end of the Ceausescu era in communist Romania." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 7, 2008	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)	96%
4/4	"There Will Be Blood reminds us that the greatest screen performances don't settle for capturing one trait, a dominant emotion or an easy way in." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 4, 2008	There Will Be Blood (2007)	92%
4/4	"It is wonderful: a rhapsodic adaptation of a memoir, a visual marvel that wraps its subject in screen romanticism without romanticizing his affliction." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Dec 20, 2007	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)	94%
4/4	"Baumbach�s achievement stings. It also has the sureness of tone and direction of a Chekhov story." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Nov 21, 2007	Margot at the Wedding (2007)	51%
4/4	"I�ve seen the film twice. It is a wonder, marked by a sense of wondrous skepticism that has nothing to do with cynicism." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Oct 18, 2007	My Kid Could Paint That (2007)	93%
4/4	"*[No End in Sight] may be the best and saddest film of the year so far." -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Aug 9, 2007	No End in Sight (2007)	94%
4/4	"The film may be animated, and largely taken up with rats, but its pulse is gratifyingly human. And you have never seen a computer-animated feature with this sort of visual panache and detail." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 28, 2007	Ratatouille (2007)	95%
4/4	"By rounding up a great group of eloquent obsessives eager to explain their feelings about a font, Hustwit has come up with 80 unexpectedly blissful minutes." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 14, 2007	Helvetica (2007)	88%
4/4	"*For reasons they'll have to go to hell for someday, the Motion Picture Association of America ratings board gave Once* an R, for a handful of swear words. Ignore that. And enjoy the film.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted May 24, 2007	Once (2007)	97%
4/4	"It's a fully realized portrait of a city, Glasgow, a portrait of a smart, watchful woman who works as a security monitor and who has endured great loss; and a portrait of the act and psychological implications of surveillance." -- Chicago Tribune Posted May 3, 2007	Red Road (2007)	89%
4/4	"The Prisoner is a triumph of specificity. It is one man's story, told in scrupulous and vivid detail." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 29, 2007	The Prisoner Or: How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair (2007)	86%
4/4	"*The beauty of the Turkish film Climates, a small but indelible masterpiece, is more than skin-deep. No 2006 film meant more to me. It's as sharp and lovely as the best Chekhov short stories." -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Feb 15, 2007	Climates (2006)	71%
4/4	"The subject, the technique and the maturity blend as one." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 11, 2007	Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)	91%
4/4	"As the man from Kazakhstan likes to say: Great success!" -- Chicago Tribune Posted Nov 2, 2006	Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)	91%
4/4	"*Unnervingly good, Little Children* is one of the rare American films about adultery that feels right -- dangerous, hushed, immediate -- even when the sex takes a back seat to other longings.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Oct 19, 2006	Little Children (2006)	81%
4/4	"The central figure in this exuberant documentary, a committed Freudian who probably would've tossed Freud himself out had he looked at him sideways, spouts one gem after another." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Sep 21, 2006	I Like Killing Flies (2006)	95%
4/4	"A fascinating chronicle of wartime, told by several distinct and vivid narrators." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 6, 2006	The War Tapes (2006)	98%
4/4	"*It takes a while to adjust to its rhythm, but the Romanian film The Death of Mr. Lazarescu* is a rich, strange and weirdly gratifying odyssey.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted May 11, 2006	The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2006)	93%
4/4	"The film is lean, harsh and remarkably free of cant." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 27, 2006	United 93 (2006)	91%
4/4	"It is exceptional in every sharp-eyed, low-keyed detail." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Oct 20, 2005	Capote (2005)	91%
4/4	"Burnett's documentarian empathy, coupled with his easygoing skill as a dramatic essayist, result in a film that doesn't look, feel or breathe like any American work of its generation." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Aug 2, 2007	Killer of Sheep (1977)	97%
4/4	"Seems forever young." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 1, 2008	The 400 Blows (1959)	100%
4/4	"With its themes of selflessness and grace, as well as its graceful intertwining of comedy and pathos, this is a fine time for a revisit." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 4, 2008	City Lights (1931)	100%

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