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Bill Stamets

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Computer Chess (2013) 86% 2.5/4 “A naturalist comic of inarticulate manners, writer-director Andrew Bujalski attempts the ensemble styles of Robert Altman and Christopher Guest to peer into a micro-culture in Computer Chess.” – Chicago Sun-Times May 13, 2025 Full Review Underground Zero (2002) 75% 2/4 “It’s a loop of hyperbolic news show graphics...” – Chicago Reader Jun 23, 2022 Full Review Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War (2000) 43% 2/4 “Yugoslavia, the Avoidable War never tries to exonerate the Serbs for their transgressions, but it does insist on a more complicated history than we’ve been given...” – Chicago Reader Jun 23, 2022 Full Review Simone (2002) 50% 3/4 “Simone joins numerous other movies in satirizing the dream factory, but it dares not tell us suckers how we fit into the big picture.” – Chicago Reader Jun 23, 2022 Full Review The Mothman Prophecies (2002) 52% 3/4 “Sights that might have been comforting before suddenly seem strange and menacing, and the technological landscape we depend on for our survival becomes the mise-en-scene of a horror film...” – Chicago Reader Jun 23, 2022 Full Review The Matrix (1999) 83% “The Matrix does a good job of repackaging Baudrillard’s critique of hyperreality, as well as riffing on Christ, Marx, Lewis Carroll, and L. Frank Baum.” – Chicago Reader Jun 16, 2022 Full Review 20 Dates (1998) 35% 2/4 “20 Dates may be unpleasant to watch, but despite Berkowitz’s icky manners and unwinning calculations, he does find true love...” – Chicago Reader Jun 16, 2022 Full Review Fetishes: Mistresses and Domination at Pandora's Box (1996) 43% 1/4 “Despite Broomfield’s insistence on access to the inner sanctum of Pandora’s Box, he never has enough nerve or imagination to join in the role-playing.” – Chicago Reader Jun 15, 2022 Full Review Volcano (1997) 49% “Unfortunately, Volcano is also faithful to Hollywood’s legendary lack of originality...” – Chicago Reader Jun 15, 2022 Full Review Unzipped (1995) 76% 2/4 “Keeve and Mizrahi don’t aim for much more than gimmickry.” – Chicago Reader Jun 7, 2022 Full Review Hoop Dreams (1994) 98% 3/4 “Recruiters, coaches, teachers–even the boys’ fathers–could be easy targets, but the filmmakers forgo cheap shots.” – Chicago Reader Jun 7, 2022 Full Review The Good Girl (2002) 82% “...this is hardly Flaubert, but it is a fairly beguiling look at moral calculation...” – Chicago Reader May 7, 2021 Full Review Pokémon Heroes (2003) 19% “[A] sunny, gentle action yarn with numbingly repetitive chase scenes and bouncy interludes of playtime.” – Chicago Reader Apr 9, 2019 Full Review Embers (2016) 83% 3/4 “This sci-fi indie... imagines a near-future dystopia where retrograde and anterograde amnesia afflict humanity... Director Claire Carre and co-writer/producer Charles Spano artfully design five story lines for a tragic take on the loss of self-knowledge.” – Chicago Sun-Times Feb 15, 2019 Full Review Trolls (2016) 76% 3.5/4 “You simply will walk out -- or perhaps dance out -- of the theater feeling very happy yourself.” – Chicago Sun-Times Nov 3, 2016 Full Review The Handmaiden (2016) 96% “"The Handmaiden" is 145 minutes of clever, erotic entertainment.” – Chicago Sun-Times Oct 27, 2016 Full Review Arrival (2016) 94% “An outstanding sci-fi film with an intergalactic language lesson.” – Chicago Sun-Times Oct 27, 2016 Full Review Staying Vertical (2016) 75% “An intriguing variant on the usual tale of writer's block.” – Chicago Sun-Times Oct 27, 2016 Full Review Paradise (2016) 70% “Konchalovsky more recently directed "The Nutcracker in 3D." Set in 1920s Vienna, that PG-rated film trivialized Auschwitz. "Paradise" atones for that mistake.” – Chicago Sun-Times Oct 20, 2016 Full Review The Commune (2016) 71% “Spritzes of humor skewer adults who are forgivably incompetent at managing their lives.” – Chicago Sun-Times Oct 20, 2016 Full Review The Student (2016) 86% “Serebrennikov deploys ornery irony in this scathing critique of a self-radicalized fundamentalist and local unbelievers.” – Chicago Sun-Times Oct 20, 2016 Full Review Things to Come (2016) 99% “This unpredictable portrait thankfully never defaults to the comeuppance of an overthinker.” – Chicago Sun-Times Oct 20, 2016 Full Review Paterson (2016) 96% “Paterson's writing may never earn such notice, but his perceptions on everyday existence are a quiet delight.” – Chicago Sun-Times Oct 20, 2016 Full Review The Similars (2015) 95% “This SF spoof eventually turns silly, but not in an interesting way.” – Chicago Reader Apr 14, 2016 Full Review Invasión (2015) “Benaim forgoes any archival footage, capturing instead the texture of memory.” – Chicago Reader Apr 14, 2016 Full Review
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