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MICHAEL WILMINGTON
Michael Wilmington

PUBLICATION(S)
• Chicago Tribune
• Las Vegas Weekly
• Los Angeles Times

STATS
Total Reviews: 1103

CRITICS GROUP(S)
• Chicago Film Critics Association
• National Society of Film Critics


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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4 Days of Heaven
3.5/4 Edmond
3/4 Coastlines
2.5/4 Our Brand Is Crisis
2/4 The Oh in Ohio
1.5/4 Little Man
1/4 The Quiet
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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4/4 Private Fears in Public Places
4/4 War and Peace
4/4 Away From Her
4/4 The Wind That Shakes the Barley
4/4 Offside
4/4 The Namesake
4/4 Two or Three Things I Know About Her
4/4 Pan's Labyrinth
4/4 The Rules of the Game
4/4 Curse of the Golden Flower
 more...
 
 
WORST REVIEWED
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0/4 Chaos
1/4 The Condemned
1/4 Full of It
1/4 Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds
1/4 The Quiet
1/4 Rebound
1/4 Alone in the Dark
1/4 Elektra
1/4 The Brown Bunny
1/4 My Boss's Daughter
 more...
 
This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

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3/4
 
"Hanson and Roth shuffle the two sides of the movie, the poker tournament and the love affair, with a Howard Hawksian feel for casual professionalism." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 10, 2008
 
Lucky You (2007)28%
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"It's enjoyable precisely because Hahn and Gabel give us both sides of the experience: the interviewer and interviewee. Though there’s an undercurrent of melancholy, Anthem is a bright ride, a welcome shot of 60’s optimism in a gray post-modern age." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 24, 2007
 
Anthem (1997)80%
 No Rating  
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Posted Jul 14, 2007
 
Bad City (2006)n/a
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3/4
 
"A smart, tense modern film noir." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 30, 2007
 
First Snow (2007)56%
 No Rating  
Click here to read article -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 30, 2007
 
Psychopathia Sexualis (2006)23%
 No Rating  
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Posted Jun 30, 2007
 
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (2007)98%
 No Rating  
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Posted Jun 30, 2007
 
Typhoon (2006)19%
 No Rating  
Click here to read article -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 30, 2007
 
Pulse (2005)72%
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3/4
 
"... low on technology but high on hilarity." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 26, 2007
 
Up for Grabs (2005)93%
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3/4
 
"Steel City is one of the most hopeful movies I've seen recently -- not just for its humane, realistic story line (about a small-town family in crisis), but in its very being." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 14, 2007
 
Steel City (2006)86%
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3/4
 
"One hell of a movie." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 14, 2007
 
Day Watch (2007)65%
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3.5/4
 
"An often lyrical and moving movie." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 14, 2007
 
Golden Door (2007)71%
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"A real masterpiece of puppetry and special effects, an absolutely gorgeous children's fantasy movie." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 14, 2007
 
Labyrinth (1986)58%
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4/4
 
"A film about love and blunders done from the perspective of age, crafted by writer Alan Ayckbourn, 68, and director Alain Resnais, 85. Our younger directors and screenwriters should show this much brilliance and feeling." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 8, 2007
 
Private Fears in Public Places (2007)79%
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3/4
 
"Jaglom's Hollywood Dreams are far closer to reality than they might seem. Unfortunately." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 7, 2007
 
Hollywood Dreams (2007)38%
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2.5/4
 
"We all have our own view of paradise, but as long as Besson has Arbogast, his camera and those surreal bare Parisian streets, his schlocky heaven enchants the eye, if not the mind." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 7, 2007
 
Angel-A (2007)44%
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2.5/4
 
"A documentary about a mad love affair, a movie that's about as compulsively watchable as a great tabloid headline story is compulsively readable -- and also a lot more rewarding." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 7, 2007
 
Crazy Love (2007)78%
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3/4
 
"The movie keeps flooding us with strange, scary imagery." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 7, 2007
 
Paprika (2007)82%
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"John Hurt, the star of The Climb, is an actor with an often staggering capacity for conveying human suffering." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 4, 2007
 
The Climb (1999)n/a
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3/4
 
"A movie that can wound you." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted May 31, 2007
 
Stephanie Daley (2007)89%
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4/4
 
"If you haven't seen it, you have an incredible treat in store." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted May 31, 2007
 
War and Peace (1968)100%
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2.5/4
 
"If it's not likely to send you scurrying off to the place on your next vacation, it's still a fascinating, nutty story, a kind of Chinatown gone wrong (or gone more wrong )." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted May 31, 2007
 
Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea (2007)95%
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3/4
 
"A nerve-rending, extremely unpleasant experience but also a compelling one." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted May 24, 2007
 
Bug (2007)59%
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3/4
 
"It's intellectual without being dry, dramatic without bombast, smart without posturing." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted May 24, 2007
 
Poison Friends (2007)88%
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3.5/4
 
"You couldn't call it perfect -- the episodes are uneven -- but it has something that sometimes is better than perfection: real love for its subject and themes." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted May 24, 2007
 
Paris, Je T'aime (2007)84%
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3.5/4
 
"The most visually spectacular, action-packed and surreal of the adventures of Capt. Jack Sparrow." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted May 23, 2007
 
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)45%
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3/4
 
"Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, and the incredible firestorm of outrage generated by their criminal trials have been largely neglected in recent years, but Peter Miller's absolutely engrossing documentary Sacco and Vanzetti brings it all back." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted May 17, 2007
 
Sacco & Vanzetti (2007)88%
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3/4
 
"Everything's Gone Green is a romantic comedy/social satire that, on a modest budget, manages to be hip, charming, funny and dressed to kill." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted May 17, 2007
 
Everything's Gone Green (2007)69%
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2.5/4
 
"Hal Hartley's Fay Grim strikes me as something of an elaborate mistake, a wasted opportunity and a script Hartley should have discarded. But I liked it anyway." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted May 17, 2007
 
Fay Grim (2007)44%
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3/4
 
"Written and directed by the late Adrienne Shelly, it's a scrumptious romantic comedy, a mostly adorable movie from a witty and winning movie talent whom we lost all too soon." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted May 10, 2007
 
Waitress (2007)89%
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2.5/4
 
"The content may be dubious, but the execution is hypnotic." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted May 10, 2007
 
Exterminating Angels (2007)47%
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2/4
 
"Maybe Georgia Rule should be required viewing for Paris Hilton during her term in the slammer. But not for us." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted May 10, 2007
 
Georgia Rule (2007)18%
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4/4
 
"Bergmanesque and beautiful, set in a wintry landscape fitfully lit by one woman's flickering awareness and one man's long-term, stubborn love, Away from Her is one of the most remarkable and moving love stories the movies have recently given us." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted May 10, 2007
 
Away From Her (2007)95%
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3/4
 
"Tells a tale both fast and moving. And when Miller as Obree takes his whirls around the track, it gets your heart pumping and your blood up." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted May 4, 2007
 
The Flying Scotsman (2007)50%
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3/4
 
"The movie has some of the feel of a good graphic novel and offers a lot of Japanese pop pleasures as well. The images are eye-catching and highly colorful, the pacing is fast, and the story and the characters are simple, grabby and archetypal." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 27, 2007
 
Ping Pong (2002)75%
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4/4
 
"[Loach is] the master of the docu-drama or the realist social film, and Wind is one of his masterpieces." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 27, 2007
 
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2007)88%
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3.5/4
 
"Shot for only $1.7 million, but it's a thoroughly entertaining, first-class job in every way." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 26, 2007
 
Disappearances (2006)52%
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1/4
 
"Despite a slick production and good actors, The Condemned is a real stinker." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 26, 2007
 
The Condemned (2007)15%
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3/4
 
"It's enjoyable in a dry but fervent way that most American comedies aren't." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 23, 2007
 
Year of the Dog (2007)69%
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3/4
 
"If you're not moved by his movie, you're really a hard case." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 20, 2007
 
The Cats of Mirikitani (2006)96%
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4/4
 
"Jafar Panahi of Iran is one of his country's great filmmakers, and Offside is his best movie to date." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 20, 2007
 
Offside (2006)96%
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3/4
 
"The kind of sleazily effective horror/genre movie Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino were trying for in Grindhouse. Vacancy catches you by the throat and puts you through the wringer." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 19, 2007
 
Vacancy (2007)55%
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3.5/4
 
"The movie scrambles our responses and covers so much ground, with such zest, that its two and a half hours race past like a firestorm." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 12, 2007
 
Black Book (2007)76%
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2/4
 
"Comparisons [to Rear Window] are probably something the makers of Disturbia don't want us to make, since Disturbia, for all its glitz and gadgets, is markedly inferior in everything but teen appeal." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 12, 2007
 
Disturbia (2007)68%
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2/4
 
"Though you can't say Pathfinder doesn't deliver the goods, action-wise, the movie often has trouble sticking to its story between battles or involving us with its characters and its self-consciously mythic hero." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 12, 2007
 
Pathfinder (2007)11%
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3/4
 
"The filmmakers catch the right glittery look and paranoid intensity, and they make gutsy speculations about the story beneath the story." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 5, 2007
 
The Hoax (2007)85%
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3/4
 
"A classical music thriller." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Mar 29, 2007
 
The Page Turner (2007)77%
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3.5/4
 
"Into Great Silence is a film of great spiritual intensity and haunting minimalism that enlarges your concepts of movies and of life." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Mar 29, 2007
 
Into Great Silence (2007)89%
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3/4
 
"It's a real technical breakthrough, a cartoon feature done in 3D computer images of unusual depth and plasticity that creates its own crazy world and then dunks you in it." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Mar 29, 2007
 
Meet the Robinsons (2007)66%
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2/4
 
"Chasing October is probably a movie only a diehard Cubs fan could love." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Mar 22, 2007
 
Chasing October (2007)n/a

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