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2/4 Nijinsky: The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
1.5/4 Without A Paddle
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 64% of the time.

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3/4
 
"Irina Palm is saddled with an odd title, an outlandish plot and an unlikely star--notorious rock maven Marianne Faithfull cast as a suburban frump. But it turns out a success" -- Chicago Tribune
Posted May 15, 2008
 
Irina Palm (2008)72%
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4/4
 
"To even talk of a story is nonsensical, since a central aesthetic of the film involves the effects of fantasy, time and subjective memory on human consciousness. Marienbad takes place in a heightened, sci-fi nightmare world where knowing, believing" -- Chicago Tribune
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Last Year at Marienbad (1961)93%
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3/4
 
"There's a gentle realism that makes room for laughs, drama and the slightest touch of farce, never spilling into the comically cheap and managing to explore subtler issues involving adoption" -- Chicago Tribune
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Then She Found Me (2008)55%
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2/4
 
"It's too clever by half, too facile in its use of sensationalist headline material, too far-fetched in its psychological fancy." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 24, 2008
 
The Life Before Her Eyes (2008)22%
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3/4
 
"The fey illogic in the title of My Brother is an Only Child hints at the style of this funny-sad film, which flips from dark to light moods and back with suave, unpredictable dexterity." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 10, 2008
 
My Brother is an Only Child (2008)90%
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2.5/4
 
"Shelter may only be shoreline deep, and its ending fanciful, but the film captures the beauty, thrill and ache of young love and extracts a casual joy out of the process." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 3, 2008
 
Shelter (2008)53%
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2/4
 
"There's too little clarity or thoroughness in the biographies, too few prolonged scenes of the girls creating their songs." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Mar 6, 2008
 
Girls Rock (2004)n/a
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3/4
 
"Morgen's best achievement is the news footage, more detailed looks at events outside the Conrad Hilton Hotel and in Chicago parks than you typically see on TV rehashes." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
Chicago 10 (2008)77%
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2/4
 
"Summer Love is fraught with feverish moods, bold imagination and a devilishly complicated exploration of the genre's iconography. It is also maddeningly paced, often like watching paint dry, albeit paint that's the garish tones of buckets of blood." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Feb 21, 2008
 
Dead Man's Bounty (2007)42%
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"The movie makes its main point. Wagstaff was an important, complex, fascinating figure, well worth remembering." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Feb 14, 2008
 
Black White + Gray: A Portrait Of Sam Wagstaff And Robert Mapplethorpe (2007)75%
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2/4
 
"Fool's Gold is a movie that keeps reminding you of its antecedents, all the way back to 1984 and the comic adventure Romancing the Stone." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Feb 7, 2008
 
Fool's Gold (2008)10%
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3/4
 
"The delight stems from the quartet of lesser known comics Vaughn chose to place at the movie's center, as well as the unpretentious way we learn so much about them--their motives, pains, struggles and revealing ethnic and class backgrounds." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Feb 7, 2008
 
Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland (2008)56%
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3/4
 
"Sheds light on particular wartime atrocities largely neglected in the collective memory." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Feb 1, 2008
 
Nanking (2007)97%
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2/4
 
"A manipulative look at dying with dignity and a lame yarn about as realistic as the fantasy in The Princess Bride." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Jan 11, 2008
 
The Bucket List (2007)40%
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2/4
 
"Its odd clash of shifting sensibilities is just as often wearisome as engaging." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Jan 4, 2008
 
Zebraman (2004)46%
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3/4
 
"Honest, sincere, blunt and yet provocative in its look at ordinary marriage, friendship and betrayal." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Jan 3, 2008
 
Fireworks Wednesday (2008)n/a
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2
 
"Not the disaster described in the British press but unlikely to restore Ritchie’s luster." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Dec 17, 2007
 
Revolver (2007)16%
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2/4
 
"The problem with the film is that it makes for better journalism than cinema." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Dec 14, 2007
 
Meeting Resistance (2007)75%
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1.5/5
 
"Relentlessly dismal and dismally predictable." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 7, 2007
 
Strength and Honor (2007)7%
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2/4
 
"It's an unabashed feel-good weeper, and those eager for that type of fare might as well settle for this one. But an equal number will be put off by the bad dialogue, transparent manipulation and saccharine overkill." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Nov 20, 2007
 
August Rush (2007)37%
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1/4
 
"Naked Boys live are a hoot. Frozen on celluloid, they're tacky." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Nov 15, 2007
 
Naked Boys Singing (2007)64%
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2.5/4
 
"Fred Claus seems a clever installment, not a seasonal classic, a buffet whose many nibbles you sample, move on and quickly forget." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Nov 8, 2007
 
Fred Claus (2007)22%
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2/4
 
"Carter comes off as compassionate and intelligent. But the complex issues brought up in his book don't get much more than a superficial debate." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Nov 1, 2007
 
Jimmy Carter Man From Plains (2007)79%
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2/4
 
"Slipstream is bold, experimental, off-the-wall kicky and utterly exasperating." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Oct 25, 2007
 
Slipstream (2007)24%
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3/4
 
"It gorgeously recalls Fellini and Koyaanisqatsi and hauntingly pits ancient tradition against science, oppression and industrial rot." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Oct 18, 2007
 
Khadak (2006)64%
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3/4
 
"Chop off a star if you're not up for highly experimental cinema." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Oct 18, 2007
 
Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007)67%
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2.5/4
 
"Despite its admirable qualities, Canvas fizzles and falls into cliche." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Oct 11, 2007
 
Canvas (2007)75%
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3/4
 
"I’ve no clue how the world will take to I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With. For Chicago, it’s a scrumptious, four-star banquet." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Oct 4, 2007
 
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2007)74%
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2.5/4
 
"The Kingdom has a heart and a viewpoint. It's a thrill ride with a lingering thought or two in its wake. But the explosions, breakneck chases, daredevil escapes and predictability about which side will be victorious remain its foremost mission." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 28, 2007
 
The Kingdom (2007)51%
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2/4
 
"Dedication is engaging for a while, but flits from style to style, from dark to loopy comedy, only to settle on gooey romance." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 20, 2007
 
Dedication (2007)41%
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2/4
 
"Juvenile viewers may well benefit from the movie. But, for the adult, it’s ultimately a film that arrives too early for the season in its title and too late in terms of style and impact." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 20, 2007
 
December Boys (2007)42%
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3/4
 
"Vanaja, a film exploring the tensions of the caste system in contemporary rural India, boasts a compelling story on-screen and off." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 13, 2007
 
Vanaja (2007)81%
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3/4
 
"Dans Paris is limned with human stumbling, snatches of temporary joy laced with existential disquiet and the desperation of souls at sea in a sterile universe but not to be denied grasps of pleasure." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 30, 2007
 
Dans Paris (2007)58%
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2/4
 
"Belle Toujours is doggedly inconsequential, deliberately non-eventful and blank." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 23, 2007
 
Belle Toujours (2006)69%
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3/4
 
"It's sillier but funnier than Knocked Up, the summer's other notable comedy." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 20, 2007
 
Death at a Funeral (2007)62%
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1.5/4
 
"Despite original touches, Cut Sleeve Boys is mostly a mediocre gay-themed movie plagued by tired humor and slapdash filmmaking." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 16, 2007
 
Cut Sleeve Boys (2006)45%
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3/4
 
"Long delayed in its release because of the summer competition, Death arrives at last as an adult tonic in a season typically abandoned to the comic book cocktail." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 16, 2007
 
Death at a Funeral (2007)62%
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3.5/4
 
"A small film that packs a big wallop." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 9, 2007
 
This Is England (2007)93%
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2.5/4
 
"The tone of the movie...saves it from its preposterous plot." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 2, 2007
 
My Best Friend (2007)75%
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2/4
 
"There are some likable elements to this unusual, erratic, ultimately frustrating film." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Jul 27, 2007
 
Vitus (2007)65%
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3/4
 
"Youthful love and lust, everlasting movie topics, are back again in Cashback, a modest but engaging film that mixes hormonal surges with art-house ingenuity." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Jul 19, 2007
 
Cashback (2007)44%
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"The psychology here borders on the ugly, while the comedy stays light, a contrast that doesn't work a lot of the time." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Jul 12, 2007
 
Introducing The Dwights (2007)52%
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3.5/4
 
"A studied, original portrait of sexuality and its role in human relationships." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Jul 5, 2007
 
Lady Chatterley (2007)74%
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2/4
 
"An A-for-effort novelty that, by the end, barely musters a passing grade." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted May 24, 2007
 
Chalk (2007)79%
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2/4
 
"The main problem with the movie is the by now shopworn nature of its setting." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted May 10, 2007
 
The Salon (2005)13%
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2.5/4
 
"For all its bright writing, TV Set is contrived and predictable, another morality lesson from a poisoned pen telling us what we've heard before." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 27, 2007
 
The TV Set (2007)64%
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2/4
 
"The Wild Blue Yonder is at times playful and inventive, at others simplistic and silly. Ultimately, Werner Herzog's free-form, idiosyncratic devolution of the documentary is beautiful but dull." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Feb 15, 2007
 
The Wild Blue Yonder: A Science Fiction Fantasy (2006)67%
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2.5/4
 
"At the very least, it's gainful, worthwhile employment for its likable star." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Feb 8, 2007
 
Fired! (2007)44%
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3.5/4
 
" This superb, quite moving film combines interviews, news footage and some reality TV-like sequences and works on a number of levels." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Jan 26, 2007
 
Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story (2007)83%
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3/4
 
"Sophisticated cine philes aren't likely to go ga-ga over this one, but Opal Dream is a worthwhile family film, graced with an ambivalent, bittersweet ending and just the right touch of cinematic poetry turning on the gemstone in its title." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Jan 18, 2007
 
Opal Dream (2006)69%

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