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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%
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%
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)	89%
4/4	"The Namesake brims with intelligence, compassion and sensuous delight in the textures, sights and sounds of life -- all the way from the Taj Mahal to Pearl Jam." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 15, 2007	The Namesake (2007)	85%
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)	95%
4/4	"Pan succeeds both as a spectacular special-effects fantasy and as a psychological drama, with superb actors." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Dec 28, 2006	Pan's Labyrinth (2006)	96%
4/4	"Don't judge the film too quickly, though. It really is like almost nothing you've seen before." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Dec 21, 2006	Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)	65%
4/4	"I can think of no single movie, fictional or factual, that more strongly awakens our common humanity or that establishes such a marvelous, tight bond with its characters." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Nov 2, 2006	49 Up (2006)	97%
4/4	"One of the most beautiful and touching road movies in recent years." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Sep 14, 2006	Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles (2006)	79%
4/4	"Great cinema, pop romance that carries a special charge." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 22, 2006	Three Times (2006)	86%
4/4	"Husband and wife, upper-class couple Jean and Gabrielle Hervey, are played, to perfection, by two of France's premier film actors: Pascal Greggory and Isabelle Huppert." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Sep 7, 2006	Gabrielle (2005)	75%
4/4	"A thriller with a powerful political subtext." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 12, 2006	Cach� (2005)	88%
4/4	"What remain intact are the filmmaker's unbreakable heart, lyrical soul and sublime art. So why should we say goodbye? Instead: Bravo. Encore." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Aug 5, 2005	Saraband (2005)	93%
4/4	"*With rich irony, The World* juxtaposes the teasing, grand images of the outside world's wonders with the insular community and the mundane lives of the park employees.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Jul 28, 2005	The World (2005)	68%
4/4	"An exhilarating and fanciful movie that never drowns in money or technology." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 14, 2005	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)	83%
4/4	"Land of the Dead proves the most socially trenchant, irreverent and politically daring of the series, the one with the most food (and gore) for thought." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 23, 2005	George A. Romero's Land of the Dead (2005)	75%
4/4	"Confirms that Miyazaki is one of the most brilliant practitioners of the cartoon feature form ever." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 9, 2005	Howl's Moving Castle (2005)	85%
4/4	"...the scariest, most exciting, most visually prodigious of the sextet, with action sequences that explode off the screen, characters who finally awaken your sentiments..." -- Chicago Tribune Posted May 16, 2005	Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)	79%
4/4	"A major cinema event of the year, a masterpiece of Italian film traditions in social/political realism and historical family epic." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 31, 2005	The Best of Youth (2005)	95%
4/4	"It's a movie of such jaw-dropping violence, wild improbability and dazzling style it overpowers all resistance." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 24, 2005	Oldboy (2005)	82%
4/4	"Few movies indeed have ever more completely conveyed Arendt's juxtaposition of the evil that sent millions to their graves with the stultifying banality of their murderers' lives." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 10, 2005	Downfall (2005)	91%
4/4	"Takes us on a journey into the special domain of childhood, a voyage joyous, shattering -- and supremely convincing." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 17, 2005	Nobody Knows (2005)	96%
4/4	"It will mean much more to those familiar with his work. But those moviegoers will experience intense pleasure in watching a great innovator at a personal high point." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 27, 2005	Notre Musique (2004)	66%
4/4	"Sumptuously exciting, glowing with expertise, seething with life, gorgeously designed and thrillingly articulated." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Dec 24, 2004	The Aviator (2004)	88%
4/4	"*It's as thrilling and lushly beautiful a movie as has been released all year, matched only by Zhang's epic Hero." -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Dec 16, 2004	House of Flying Daggers (2004)	88%
4/4	"[Jeunet] strikes a giddy balance between comedy and terror, romance and incandescent action, between the demands of his huge canvas and his intimate emotional subject." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Dec 16, 2004	A Very Long Engagement (2004)	77%
4/4	"One of Eastwood's best." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Dec 14, 2004	Million Dollar Baby (2004)	91%
4/4	"It's masterful, simple and wise." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Dec 2, 2004	Moolaade (2004)	99%
4/4	"Ray is a fit tribute to an entertainer who, no matter what hate or hardship threw in his way or how many mistakes he made, we can't stop loving." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Oct 28, 2004	Ray (2004)	81%
4/4	"Both charming and sexy, uproariously funny and touchingly human." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Oct 28, 2004	Sideways (2004)	96%
4/4	"A prime example of how genuine drama terrifies and uplifts us. It also reveals how controversial subjects can seem fresh and new in the hands of a master director and a great ensemble cast." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Oct 21, 2004	Vera Drake (2004)	92%
4/4	"An action movie for the ages." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Aug 26, 2004	Hero (2004)	95%
4/4	"A masterpiece of wry violence and stylized mayhem." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Aug 5, 2004	The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi/Sonatine (2004)	87%
4/4	"A film of luminous delights." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 30, 2004	Before Sunset (2004)	94%
4/4	"Moore's ability to kick off a debate -- even a vicious one -- remains priceless, as do his gifts for ridicule, for wringing laughs, shock and tears from his subjects and for shedding a spotlight on ordinary Americans." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 24, 2004	Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)	83%
4/4	"After watching Carandiru, one recalls the movie's inmates with sadness, the doctor with affection, the prison with fear and loathing and the movie with that sure, strong recognition you feel after seeing, for the first time, a classic." -- Chicago Tribune Posted May 27, 2004	Carandiru (2004)	68%
4/4	"In a league with Hollywood's top historical epics, ancient or otherwise." -- Chicago Tribune Posted May 13, 2004	Troy (2004)	55%
4/4	"A stunning contemporary fable about a divided family in the wilderness -- a simple, riveting film that almost achieves greatness." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 29, 2004	The Return (2004)	96%
4/4	"A genre piece full of great actors and fabulous scenery, a rousing, full-blooded entertainment that uses serious themes and events mostly for pure pleasure." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 15, 2004	Bon Voyage (2004)	77%
4/4	"A Chekhovian tale of major artistic power." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 8, 2004	Distant (2004)	89%
4/4	"A quiet, inspiring study of the vagaries of genius, the blindness of commerce, the pain of family conflicts and the almost sublime power of great architecture or great art." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 19, 2004	My Architect: A Son's Journey (2003)	93%
4/4	"It is a profound examination of the troubling proposition that good or well-meaning people can help create horrible and evil events -- and be swept along in the turmoil they unleash." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 22, 2004	The Fog of War (2003)	98%
4/4	"A film that effortlessly makes you laugh with delight, cringe with pain and weep for life's inevitable end." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Dec 18, 2003	The Barbarian Invasions (2003)	82%
4/4	"Both profoundly moving and deeply satisfying." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Dec 15, 2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)	94%
4/4	"Probably the best movie of its kind ever made." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Nov 13, 2003	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)	84%
4/4	"Stylish, ingenious and gleaming with charm, wit and malice, it's another expert blend of domestic drama and crime thriller, a vivisection of the bourgeoisie." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Nov 6, 2003	The Flower of Evil (2003)	64%
4/4	"Crisply well-crafted and beautifully acted." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Oct 8, 2003	Mystic River (2003)	87%
4/4	"A fierce, brilliant film that breaks (and then mends) your heart." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Aug 15, 2003	The Magdalene Sisters (2003)	90%
4/4	"Sleek, beautiful and packed with emotion, not too flashy but full of heart, this is a movie worthy of its unlikely yet glorious subject." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 24, 2003	Seabiscuit (2003)	78%
4/4	"A powerful film made with minimal means, it's a story of poor people on the fringes of society, done without sentimentality or condescension but with wicked humor." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 27, 2003	The Man Without a Past (2003)	98%

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