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	" *It's laced with literate humor, and the directors cite N.C. Wyeth's illustrations for the 1911 Scribner's edition of Treasure Island* as the inspiration for their marvelously detailed fantasy world.*" -- Chicago Reader* Posted Sep 9, 2008	Treasure Planet (2002)	69%
	" This is vicarious cinema at its best." -- Chicago Reader Posted Aug 5, 2008	Riding Giants (2004)	92%
	" Screenwriter Kate Boutilier provides plenty of sharp patter." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 20, 2008	The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002)	79%
3/4	" *Perceptive and poignant, Caramel* observes the love lives of the establishment's owner, her employees and their customers.*" -- Chicago Sun-Times* Posted Mar 28, 2008	Caramel (2008)	92%
2.5/4	" Smacks of an audition exercise." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Feb 27, 2008	Tre (2008)	53%
3.5/4	" Jia Zhang-ke is a new auteur making his mark. Embraced abroad on the international festival circuit, if less welcome on screens in China, this writer-director works in a genre that could be called globalist." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Feb 22, 2008	Still Life (2008)	91%
3/4	" A blunt look at how anger binds generations." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jan 25, 2008	Times and Winds (2008)	85%
3/4	" Steep is a throwback to the early days of movies when the sight of things in motion was a thrill in itself. Seeing leaves rustling in the wind or waves on the sea was a marvel." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jan 25, 2008	Steep (2007)	51%
	" *If you missed the first One Missed Call, made in Japan in 2004, you now can miss the American remake." -- Chicago Sun-Times* Posted Jan 7, 2008	One Missed Call (2008)	0%
3/4	" Live-in Maid is a study of two women who appear not to like each other very much, yet their link makes for a moving drama about friendship." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Oct 19, 2007	Live-In Maid (2004)	100%
3/4	" [Director] Swanberg nails the inane fun of youth." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Oct 19, 2007	Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007)	66%
3/4	" *Drawing a line between official and unofficial forces is irrelevant since both are paid with our taxes, Shadow Company* throws light on that bottom line in the war on terror.*" -- Chicago Sun-Times* Posted Oct 5, 2007	Shadow Company (2007)	85%
2.5/4	" Artful framing and 23 peppy songs on the soundtrack lend a gloss to subject matter that alternately repels and fascinates..." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Sep 28, 2007	Manda Bala (2007)	80%
2.5/4	" 'Hitchcockian' is the less than lilting compliment used to hype this Long Island noir." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Sep 28, 2007	If I Didn't Care (2007)	37%
2/4	" Unfortunately, the couple's intimacy is not especially interesting." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Sep 28, 2007	The Garden of Earthly Delights (2004)	67%
1.5/4	" This trivial film toys with the postmodern lifestyles." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Sep 21, 2007	Freshman Orientation (2007)	33%
2/4	" After a promising start, Griffin Dunne's film bogs down and simply turns into a predictable mish-mash of a movie that is shrill and heavy-handed and totally trite." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Sep 21, 2007	Fierce People (2007)	24%
3/4	" On all counts, the co-directors of this persuasive documentary set the right tone." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Sep 21, 2007	The Devil Came On Horseback (2007)	98%
2.5/4	" A little voiceover commentary might add more than the sound of his panting." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Sep 7, 2007	9 Star Hotel (2006)	63%
3/4	" This artfully muted film pays off with a desperate act of eloquence." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Sep 7, 2007	In Between Days (2006)	84%
1.5/4	" *In its gore, Hatchet* is not especially inventive*" -- Chicago Sun-Times* Posted Sep 7, 2007	Hatchet (2007)	47%
2.5/4	" Osmond and Rothwell do a commendable job of mining a rich archive of material." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Sep 7, 2007	Deep Water (2007)	96%
2/4	" Don't bet on this Israeli drama exploding any cliches." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Sep 7, 2007	The Bubble (2007)	56%
3/4	" *This verite* digital video about coping with natural disaster contains exotic characters, tragic hardships, bureaucratic indifference, inner demons and the birth of a crack baby.*" -- Chicago Sun-Times* Posted Aug 31, 2007	Kamp Katrina (2007)	80%
2/4	" Too bad co-writers/co-directors Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine don't investigate -- and ingratiate -- the way their target does in his own films." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Aug 31, 2007	Manufacturing Dissent (2007)	52%
1.5/4	" Dennis Bartok writes this lackluster anthology of four juvenile horror stories dripping with sexual dread and goofball gore." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Aug 31, 2007	Trapped Ashes (2006)	40%
2/4	" Dans Paris has a lot of whining about women, interrupted with impulsive trysts and bouts of dancing." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Aug 31, 2007	Dans Paris (2007)	60%
3/4	" International talents converge for an entertaining genre exercise." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Aug 31, 2007	Ladron que Roba a Ladron (To Rob a Thief) (2007)	63%
2/4	" The fright is crafted well enough, but the twist at the end calls for more originality than filmmakers David Moreau and Xavier Palud wield." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Aug 24, 2007	Them (2007)	63%
3/4	" *Unlike the intense cadets for Christ and creationism in the recent documentary Jesus Camp,* the kids in the sweet Summercamp! have fun!*" -- Chicago Sun-Times* Posted Aug 24, 2007	Summercamp! (2007)	77%
3/4	" The camera work is always note-perfect." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Aug 24, 2007	Gypsy Caravan (2006)	86%
3/4	" Belle Toujours lets us peer at one master embroidering on the legacy of another master." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Aug 24, 2007	Belle Toujours (2006)	67%
2.5/4	" Moliere hardly matches the clever mockery of its 17th century inspiration." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Aug 10, 2007	Moliere (2007)	70%
4/4	" Loktev creates a minimalist study of unfathomable faith." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Aug 10, 2007	Day Night Day Night (2007)	70%
3/4	" A smart, tender love story." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Aug 10, 2007	The Treatment (2007)	68%
3/4	" This revelatory documentary lets us see what it's like to be an actress at an audition." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Aug 10, 2007	Casting About (2007)	63%
3/4	" Burtynsky calls for "a whole new way of thinking" about the world's economy and ecology, though he never says what's wrong with the old way." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jul 27, 2007	Manufactured Landscapes (2007)	84%
2.5/4	" Delightful in places, the surreal stunts are lovingly crafted. As a seaworthy film, though, Fiona's folly is more pratfall than plot." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jul 27, 2007	L'Iceberg (2007)	71%
1.5/4	" The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai is far less silly than it thinks it is. The upbeat vibe of super-female power misfires with a gratuitous rape scene." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jul 23, 2007	The Glamorous Life Of Sachiko Hanai (2007)	30%
3/4	" Perverse humor pervades the films of Lars von Trier." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jul 23, 2007	The Boss of it All (2007)	73%
2.5/4	" [Director] Boe's technique has more flash than passion." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jul 23, 2007	Allegro (2005)	60%
2/4	" The director's existential sarcasm is muted here." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jul 23, 2007	Lights In The Dusk (2007)	68%
3/4	" Punk's Not Dead serves as a diehard's scrapbook of three decades of living punk, not a eulogy for an extinct underground retrofitted as a fashion trend." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jul 23, 2007	Punk's Not Dead (2007)	89%
3/4	" *This Macbeth* is true to the ugly-hearted original. No one is redeemed by gore, or absolved of madness. Nor do lines sound any less sublime when channeled through underlings and overlords.*" -- Chicago Sun-Times* Posted Jul 13, 2007	Macbeth (2007)	46%
3.5/4	" *If Machiavelli's The Prince* and Sun Tzu's The Art of War translate to other centuries and cultures, so might Election and Triad Election.*" -- Chicago Sun-Times* Posted Jul 13, 2007	Triad Election (2007)	96%
2.5/4	" Election feels routine at times, though less formulaic than other genre exercises from Hong Kong. The depiction of crime customs is sociologically detailed." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jul 13, 2007	Election (2005)	86%
2/4	" Slick cinematography makes this bland social comedy always watchable, but the movie has its insipid moments." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jul 13, 2007	Hula Girls (2007)	50%
3/4	" *An unnerving riff on South Korean women fixated on the idea of ul-jjang* ('best face').*" -- Chicago Sun-Times* Posted Jul 13, 2007	Time (2007)	81%
3/4	" Rock the Bells deals with the mechanics of how to pull off a concert, not with what brought Wu-Tang Clan together or split them up. The impressive teamwork of the promoters upstages the egos of hip-hop divos and their rampaging fans." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jun 29, 2007	Rock the Bells (2007)	83%
3/4	" *In the compelling documentary Six Days, Israeli director Ilan Ziv details the conflict that set Egypt, Syria and Jordan against Israe;." -- Chicago Sun-Times* Posted Jun 29, 2007	Six Days (2007)	63%

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