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MARK CARO
Mark Caro

PUBLICATION(S)
Chicago Tribune

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Total Reviews: 281

CRITICS GROUP(S)
Chicago Film Critics Association


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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4  Y Tu Mama Tambien
3.5/4  The Royal Tenenbaums
4/5  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
3/4  The Deep End
2.5/4  Shallow Hal
3/5  Vanilla Sky
2/4  Ali
1.5/4  Collateral Damage
1/4  Black Knight
.5/4  Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
0/4  The Real Cancun
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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4/4  Capturing the Friedmans
4/4  Finding Nemo
4/4  City of God
4/4  Bloody Sunday
4/4  Y Tu Mama Tambien
 more...
 
 
WORST REVIEWED
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0/4  The Real Cancun
.5/4  Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
1/4  Soul Plane
1/4  Gigli
1/4  Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights
1/4  Jackass: The Movie
1/4  Waking Up in Reno
1/4  Showtime
1/4  Black Knight
 more...
 
This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 80% of the time.

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2/4
 
" If you broke down Mr. Brooks in terms of structure, twists and momentum, you might give it high marks. The thing does move. To where is the problem."
Posted May 31, 2007
 
Mr. Brooks (2007)56%
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2/4
 
" Feels more about a situation than actual people. It's sensitively rendered, filled with those necessary evocative details, and it never rings true."
Posted Jul 16, 2004
 
The Door in the Floor (2004)66%
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3.5/4
 
" Until it develops a bad case of verbosity toward the end, it improves upon its predecessor in almost every way, delivering flashier thrills while digging deeper into its characters and adding an overlay of wit."
Posted Jun 28, 2004
 
Spider-Man 2 (2004)93%
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3.5/4
 
" There's something simple yet miraculous about watching these beautiful animals interact with the wild and each other, even if their actions are being manipulated for the sake of drama."
Posted Jun 24, 2004
 
Two Brothers (2004)78%
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1.5/4
 
" Once you get beyond nostalgia for dodging red balls whipped at your head, there's little here."
Posted Jun 17, 2004
 
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)70%
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2/4
 
" This comedy is billed as being 'based on the novel by Jules Verne,' but 'suggested by' or 'borrowing the title and character names of' would be more accurate."
Posted Jun 16, 2004
 
Around the World in 80 Days (2004)30%
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3/4
 
" What Noujaim does show is the side rarely seen over here, and she does so in a way that's brisk, informative and even entertaining in its own wrenching way."
Posted Jun 10, 2004
 
Control Room (2004)96%
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2/4
 
" The tightness of the Pitch Black horror-movie structure has been replaced by sprawl and lots of back story, geography and interstellar politics."
Posted Jun 10, 2004
 
Chronicles of Riddick (2004)30%
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3.5/4
 
" Until now Harry Potter has been a great book character and a functional movie hero. With Cuaron leading the way, Harry has burst from the printed page to soar on-screen."
Posted Jun 3, 2004
 
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)89%
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1/4
 
" A prime example of a comedy that's all marketing."
Posted May 27, 2004
 
Soul Plane (2004)19%
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2/4
 
" You can take the director out of television, but sometimes you can't take television out of the director."
Posted May 27, 2004
 
Raising Helen (2004)22%
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2.5/4
 
" The draggy ones make you restless while the best ones, like the movie's title ingredients, provide a buzz that doesn't last long enough."
Posted May 27, 2004
 
Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)63%
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3/4
 
" A solid if not groundbreaking yarn."
Posted May 18, 2004
 
Shrek 2 (2004)89%
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2.5/4
 
" The best screwball comedies seem to breathe helium, but this one never gets airborne."
Posted May 13, 2004
 
Breakin' All the Rules (2004)33%
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2/4
 
" The sense of calculation is overwhelming, down to the loose threads on Roxy's Metallica T-shirt."
Posted May 6, 2004
 
New York Minute (2004)12%
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3.5/4
 
" You'll never think the same way about those two all-beef patties."
Posted May 6, 2004
 
Super Size Me (2004)93%
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1.5/4
 
" A shaggy dog-poop story that'll make you wish you could spray something at the screen to make it disappear."
Posted Apr 29, 2004
 
Envy (2004)6%
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2/4
 
" The movie is as flighty and mixed up as the adolescent girl at its center."
Posted Apr 22, 2004
 
13 Going on 30 (2004)64%
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2.5/4
 
" For those seeking the vibrant innovation of Tarantino's first movies or the sheer rush of Kill Bill, Vol. 1, Vol. 2 feels like a dulled blade."
Posted Apr 15, 2004
 
Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)85%
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2/4
 
" Plays like your standard-issue modern war movie."
Posted Apr 8, 2004
 
The Alamo (2004)30%
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2/4
 
" The movie feels at odds with itself, embracing the comics' idiosyncratic creations without an idiosyncratic worldview."
Posted Apr 1, 2004
 
Hellboy (2004)80%
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3/4
 
" An intimate, moving (if at times repetitive) tribute to the former Cubs third baseman and current radio commentator."
Posted Mar 25, 2004
 
This Old Cub (2004)74%
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3/4
 
" If Intermission isn't profound, it's got boisterous humor and energy."
Posted Mar 25, 2004
 
Intermission (2004)73%
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3/4
 
" You constantly appreciate Kaufman's intelligence and Gondry's lively filmmaking."
Posted Mar 18, 2004
 
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)94%
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3/4
 
" Like Heist, Spartan includes its share of twists and doublecrosses, but it's so effective in immersing you in its dimly lit, claustrophobic world that you don't sit outside the action pondering how Mamet is trying to con you."
Posted Mar 11, 2004
 
Spartan (2004)64%
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2.5/4
 
" If a movie rises and falls solely on the basis of its laughs, it better have a lot of them. Starsky & Hutch doesn't."
Posted Mar 4, 2004
 
Starsky & Hutch (2004)63%
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1.5/4
 
" Outrageous comedy isn't meant to be this safe."
Posted Feb 26, 2004
 
Broken Lizard's Club Dread (2004)31%
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3/4
 
" Derives most of its power from providing a clear window on a previously obscured world."
Posted Feb 19, 2004
 
Osama (2003)96%
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3/4
 
" Welcome to Mooseport isn't a belly-laugh farce. It's more along the lines of a My Cousin Vinny, where you just enjoy almost everybody who crosses the screen."
Posted Feb 19, 2004
 
Welcome to Mooseport (2004)13%
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2/4
 
" Sandler's movies always have combined juvenile humor with sentimentality, but the two rarely have seemed so out of synch."
Posted Feb 12, 2004
 
50 First Dates (2004)44%
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2.5/4
 
" An effective exercise in flag-waving nostalgia."
Posted Feb 5, 2004
 
Miracle (2004)79%
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3/4
 
" You feel you not only know these people but where they come from."
Posted Feb 4, 2004
 
House of Sand and Fog (2003)76%
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Posted Feb 4, 2004
 
The Impostors (1998)63%
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Posted Feb 4, 2004
 
Mouse Hunt (1997)44%
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2.5/4
 
" Aside from this movie's switcheroos, it's hard to pinpoint the entertainment value here."
Posted Jan 22, 2004
 
The Butterfly Effect (2004)34%
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2/4
 
" Some movies run out of gas. This one could use an alternate fuel source."
Posted Jan 15, 2004
 
Along Came Polly (2004)26%
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3/4
 
" Works as mind-tickling entertainment that never stoops to the vulgarities or frenetic pacing of most family films."
Posted Dec 23, 2003
 
Peter Pan (2003)76%
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2.5/4
 
" In terms of pedigree and sheer, lush filmmaking, the movie has class written all over it. And that's part of the problem."
Posted Dec 23, 2003
 
Cold Mountain (2003)71%
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3.5/4
 
" If you'd thought Macy had explored every nook and cranny of loserville in such movies as Fargo and Magnolia, think again: He makes Bernie into someone brand new."
Posted Dec 18, 2003
 
The Cooler (2003)77%
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3/4
 
" It creates a strong sense of a living, breathing community, and you root for its affectionately drawn characters as they experience the giddiness of triumph without forgetting the project's bittersweet inspiration."
Posted Dec 18, 2003
 
Calendar Girls (2003)74%
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2/4
 
" It's not naughty. It's nice. Naughty is funnier."
Posted Dec 11, 2003
 
Stuck on You (2003)61%
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3.5/4
 
" The foulest holiday movie I've ever seen -- and the funniest."
Posted Nov 25, 2003
 
Bad Santa (2003)77%
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3.5/4
 
" Sheridan's labor of love becomes a testament to love, presenting the triumph of spirit over circumstances."
Posted Nov 25, 2003
 
In America (2003)89%
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1.5/4
 
" The movie includes little of Seuss' language and even less of his wit."
Posted Nov 20, 2003
 
Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat (2003)12%
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2/4
 
" From the title on down, Looney Tunes: Back in Action feels less like a movie than an exercise in brand reinforcement."
Posted Nov 13, 2003
 
Looney Tunes - Back in Action (2003)57%
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2/4
 
" Individually, the tales wouldn't stand up as short stories. Together, they make for sporadically amusing, ultimately wearying viewing."
Posted Nov 6, 2003
 
Love Actually (2003)64%
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3/4
 
" Sarsgaard plays Lane with great subtlety and grace."
Posted Nov 6, 2003
 
Shattered Glass (2003)91%
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2/4
 
" You could react on a gut level to the first movie's idea ... But that basic premise has been all but lost by Revolutions amid the philosophical smoke thrown up by the writing-directing Wachowski Brothers."
Posted Nov 4, 2003
 
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)37%
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2/4
 
" There's something vanilla about the whole enterprise."
Posted Oct 30, 2003
 
Brother Bear (2003)39%
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2/4
 
" It's a dreary movie about a dreary character, offering little insight into her poetry or the mental illness that ultimately conquered her."
Posted Oct 23, 2003
 
Sylvia (2003)37%

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