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Christopher Borrelli

Christopher Borrelli's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Biography:

Chicago Tribune reporter.

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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) 54% 2.5/4 “It's big, goofy fun. That's all. Consider it a visual narcotic, so rich and crammed with imaginative frills and evocative images and dizzying designs that your eyes become drunk just watching it.” – Toledo Blade Apr 16, 2025 Full Review American Psycho (2000) 68% 4/4 “Harron transforms a badly constructed misogynist fantasy into inspired satire.” – Toledo Blade Apr 4, 2025 Full Review Almost Famous (2000) 91% “A couple of times tears gathered in my eyes, not because of something sentimental or sad, or a moment calculated to induce tears -- the movie allows room for emotion to collect in quieter ways -- but because of the film's elemental goodness and integrity.” – Toledo Blade Mar 26, 2024 Full Review Amélie (2001) 90% 5/5 “If I ever wanted to run into a projectionist's booth and hug a canister of film, it was after I saw Amelie for the first time.” – Toledo Blade Feb 13, 2024 Full Review Flags of Our Fathers (2006) 76% 4/5 “Flags of Our Fathers is about the selling of wartime reality -- actually -- the creating of that reality.” – Toledo Blade Nov 10, 2023 Full Review Atanarjuat the Fast Runner (2001) 93% 5/5 “The cultural and historical significance of The Fast Runner is modest when compared to the experience of sitting through The Fast Runner itself. It's an extraordinary, absorbing film, a landmark by any standard. ” – Toledo Blade Nov 8, 2023 Full Review The Exorcist (1973) 78% 5/5 “The Exorcist is a masterful movie three decades later because it was made by filmmakers who had something to say and who knew when to use restraint and when to entertain and when to burrow under your skin. ” – Toledo Blade Sep 29, 2023 Full Review Traffic (2000) 93% “Traffic is thrillingly alive. From the first frame to the last, the director would rather engage you, startle you with the vastness of his canvas, and offer his extraordinary movie as an antidote to gutless filmmaking. ” – Toledo Blade Sep 7, 2023 Full Review Moulin Rouge (2001) 75% 3/5 “Moulin Rouge, a provocative acid-blast take on the Hollywood musical, the first big one in a generation, flashes by like a dream and a drunken night at the opera.” – Toledo Blade Sep 5, 2023 Full Review In the Mood for Love (2000) 92% 4/5 “This is film for film's sake -- pure movie, as it's sometimes called. What's important isn't logic or plot, but that memories of the images and feelings alone are enough to send you into a swoon.” – Toledo Blade Jul 15, 2023 Full Review Mulholland Dr. (2001) 84% 4/5 “Dreams don't make sense. Dreams don't finish or begin or come with explanations. Ultimately, that's what Mulholland Drive is about: dreams, identity, and, naturally, Hollywood, where dreams and identity get blurry.” – Toledo Blade Jul 11, 2023 Full Review The Blair Witch Project (1999) 86% 4/4 “[The Blair Witch Project is] the most effective and unsettling horror movie in quite a long time. Just to clarify: after seeing this, you will not sleep well. Invest in a night-light.” – Toledo Blade Dec 15, 2022 Full Review Gladiator (2000) 80% 3.5/4 “We're on the cusp of a new golden age for moviemaking. Ridley Scott is hardly equipped to light the way, but that he or anybody is willing to deliver a jolt of electricity to a genre as dead and dumb as the Roman epic is thrilling in itself. ” – Toledo Blade Nov 1, 2022 Full Review Go Tigers! (2001) 85% “It's all true, even though the details are both as chilling as the premise of Invasion of the Body Snatchers and as uplifting as the plots of a half-dozen recent sports movies.” – Toledo Blade Sep 15, 2020 Full Review The Cockettes (2002) 91% 4/4 “The effect is to actually bring to life the idealistic spirit of the times, to provide a context more resonant than simply the fashions and the music.” – Toledo Blade Sep 15, 2020 Full Review The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003) 41% 2/5 “Here, we get a Bizarro Europe where the modest pleasures of the cable series are skipped to make room for a plot every American kiddie flick takes when it heads overseas. It aspires to nothing more than smiling imitation.” – Toledo Blade Jan 15, 2020 Full Review John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch (2019) 96% “"John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch," a holiday surprise, comes as close as anything Mulaney's done to explaining his appeal and outlook.” – Chicago Tribune Dec 30, 2019 Full Review Love Actually (2003) 64% 4/5 “It is not only the best romantic comedy in quite a long time, it is every romantic comedy in quite a long time, baked into a melange and made gargantuan. I left smiling like a huge imbecile.” – Toledo Blade Nov 5, 2019 Full Review Marie Antoinette (2006) 57% 5/5 “The sneakers, post-punk soundtrack, and winking acknowledgement aside, working from a biography by Antonia Fraser, Coppola is surprisingly true to historical fact, and somewhat warmly admiring of the infamous teen queen.” – Toledo Blade Apr 2, 2019 Full Review I, Robot (2004) 57% “I have seen the future and it s an episode of Frasier gone very wrong. The worst episode, actually. Not that I, Robot is a bad film; quite the contrary, it s a shamelessly entertaining video game of a narrative, directed with style and energy.” – Toledo Blade Apr 1, 2019 Full Review The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004) 57% “For the first time Anderson is distancing us as much as he's charming us. What's charming, though, ensures Life Aquatic is no failure.” – Toledo Blade Apr 1, 2019 Full Review The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) 38% 4/4 “It made me want to book a trip to Japan then do doughnuts in a subdivision.” – Toledo Blade Mar 31, 2019 Full Review Reign of Fire (2002) 41% “It's the kind of earnest, no-nonsense monster movie Hollywood used to toss out in the 1950s, and it works for one reason only: The ability of a handful of good actors, and monster movie-loving filmmakers, to keep a straight face.” – Toledo Blade Mar 31, 2019 Full Review Chicago (2002) 87% “If this production from first-time director Rob Marshall doesn't single-handedly revive the musical as a viable genre in Hollywood, then the musical deserves to stay dead.” – Toledo Blade Feb 19, 2019 Full Review A Beautiful Mind (2001) 74% “A Beautiful Mind isn't really interested in Nash's thoughts, let alone anyone else's.” – Toledo Blade Feb 19, 2019 Full Review
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