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Jonathan Rosenbaum

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Tommy (1975) 71% “Even at its most lacklustre and tasteless junctures, Tommy is never boring, and always full of energy; and given the very loose narrative framework and imprecise plot that Russell has to work with, this is no small achievement.” – Sight & Sound Mar 18, 2025 Full Review My Pleasure Is My Business (1974) “Despite a reasonable amount of high spirits, the shrill ugliness and witlessness of the Gestalt cabinet scenes are sufficient to sink this shaky vehicle without a trace.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Mar 11, 2025 Full Review Nashville (1975) 89% “One proceeds through this constant play between organisation and chaos as though in a mystery, picking out threads that may be either loose ends or clues to future events -- and aspect that makes Nashville well worth repeated visits.” – Sight & Sound Feb 27, 2025 Full Review Shall We Dance? (1996) 90% “Its paper-thin characters turned into caricatures by egregious hamming, this 1996 Japanese comedy drama about shy ballroom dancers is sentimental goo and downright interminable. ” – Chicago Reader Aug 21, 2024 Full Review Home Alone (1990) 66% “The movie is quite enjoyable as long as it explores the fantasy of a neglected little boy having an entire house of his own to explore and play in, and it still manages to be fun when he exhibits superhuman ingenuity and resourcefulness.” – Chicago Reader Nov 29, 2023 Full Review Smoke Signals (1998) 90% “Good-natured but haunting, elliptical and repetitive as narrative but extremely likable, this is a poignant and sometimes funny story.” – Chicago Reader Nov 8, 2023 Full Review Atanarjuat the Fast Runner (2001) 93% “This totally absorbing 172-minute feature, winner of the Camera d’Or at Cannes, is exciting not as ethnography but as storytelling, as drama, and as filmmaking. ” – Chicago Reader Nov 8, 2023 Full Review The Great New Wonderful (2005) 73% “Tries way too hard to be clever and shrewd. Danny Leiner (Dude, Where’s My Car?, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle) directed a script by Sam Catlin, and though both have their moments, they’re rarely the same moments.” – Chicago Reader Sep 12, 2023 Full Review Y tu mamá también (2001) 90% “A genuine rarity: a sex comedy with brains. Even rarer, one with smart politics -- so unobtrusive you may not notice -- and wonderful acting.” – Chicago Reader Sep 9, 2023 Full Review When a Man Loves a Woman (1994) 69% “Apart from a confusing and unnecessary beginning and slick and corny Hollywood ending, this is a fairly serious and honest tearjerker about the delicate and subtle relationship between a family’s dysfunctionality and the wife’s alcoholism.” – Chicago Reader Sep 1, 2023 Full Review La Haine (1995) 96% “Though some of this might seem a bit old to Americans, Kassovitz has some things of his own to say -- and he says them with nuance, feeling, and authority.” – Chicago Reader Jul 20, 2023 Full Review Mulholland Dr. (2001) 84% “I’m still trying to decide if this piece of hocus-pocus is David Lynch’s best feature between Eraserhead and Inland Empire.” – Chicago Reader Jul 10, 2023 Full Review Kandahar (2001) 89% 3/4 “Thanks to the shifting tone and manner of Kandahar, we wind up responding in many different ways at once, and if the overall effect is still scattered, the burden of making sense of it all–as art and as reality–reverts to us.” – Chicago Reader Aug 12, 2022 Full Review What Time Is It There? (2001) 85% 4/4 “It’s Tsai's own way of thinking globally, of finding hope in the midst of despair, of seeing a profound connectedness in the midst of alienation, and it carries a lift that could enlighten us all.” – Chicago Reader Aug 12, 2022 Full Review Minority Report (2002) 89% 3/4 “Minority Report does offer a few issues to ponder, and given the mindlessness of most summer action specials, it’s something of an intellectual feast, even if it’s all hors d’oeuvres. ” – Chicago Reader Aug 10, 2022 Full Review Secret Ballot (2001) 83% 3/4 “I see Payami as creating a formal relationship between his audience and subject that encourages us to be open-minded: neither of the two main characters can be seen as all right or all wrong...” – Chicago Reader Aug 10, 2022 Full Review The Luzhin Defence (2000) 58% “I realize that every film adaptation of a good novel involves some sort of trade-off and that fair exchanges are few and far between. But this movie takes away a good two-thirds...” – Chicago Reader Jun 22, 2022 Full Review Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000) 14% “One of the key lessons of The Blair Witch Project that’s completely lost on Book of Shadows is that disorientation can take place only after some orientation is established.” – Chicago Reader Jun 22, 2022 Full Review Mr. Zhao (1998) 3/4 “Lu Yue is one of the best cinematographers in mainland China.” – Chicago Reader Jun 16, 2022 Full Review El Valley Centro (1999) 2/4 “Though I had a nice time watching this movie overall, I’m sure I would have enjoyed it more if I’d had more of a sense of logical progression–or regression–from one shot to the next.” – Chicago Reader Jun 16, 2022 Full Review It Happened Here (1964) 71% 3/4 “The film is much more interested in the everyday details of what she encounters than in constructing a consciousness-raising polemic.” – Chicago Reader Jun 16, 2022 Full Review Winstanley (1975) 3/4 “The framing, lighting, and editing of both films show how much Brownlow absorbed from silent cinema, though this influence is much more pronounced in Winstanley...” – Chicago Reader Jun 16, 2022 Full Review Eighteen Springs (1997) 2/4 “ At this point I don’t think it’s a masterpiece–though that doesn’t necessarily mean you shouldn’t see it. ” – Chicago Reader Jun 16, 2022 Full Review Six O'Clock News (1997) 100% “This Boston-based North Carolinian is known as an independent autobiographer, yet what I’ve come to appreciate most in his work are those moments when autobiography leads him away from himself to other people.” – Chicago Reader Jun 16, 2022 Full Review Jazz '34 (1996) 3/4 “Jazz ’34 does have a loose, episodic narrative–moving from early morning to night to dawn to what appears to be late afternoon–and even a certain moral development...” – Chicago Reader Jun 16, 2022 Full Review
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