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Best of Chicago: Movies The best film ever made in Chicago, the city's best filmmakers, the best film festival, and the best library for borrowing videos.
Recently published long reviews:
Public Enemies, Reviewed 7/2/09
Onion City Film and Video Festival, Reviewed 6/11/09
Le Plasir and La Ronde, Reviewed 6/4/09
Outrage, Reviewed 5/21/09
The Human Condition, Reviewed 5/14/09
Star Trek, Reviewed 5/07/09
The Informers, Reviewed 4/23/09
Hunger and American Violet, Reviewed 4/16/09
Silent Light, Reviewed 3/19/09
Watchmen, Reviewed 3/12/09
The Seventh Python and Punching the Clown, Reviewed 3/5/09
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29, Reviewed 2/19/09
The Class, Reviewed 2/12/09
The Secret of the Grain, Reviewed 1/22/09
Che, Reviewed 1/15/09
Virtual JFK: Vietnam if Kennedy Had Lived, The Robert Drew Kennedy Films, Reviewed 1/8/09
The Reader, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Reviewed 12/25/08
Frost/Nixon, Reviewed 12/11/08
Milk, Reviewed 11/27/08
Let the Right One In, Reviewed 11/20/08
Quantum of Solace, Reviewed 11/13/08
Religulous, Reviewed 10/02/08
The Lucky Ones, Reviewed 9/25/08
Lakeview Terrace, Reviewed 9/18/08
Babylon A.D., Reviewed 9/4/08
Elegy
and Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Reviewed 8/21/08
Frozen River, Reviewed 8/14/08
Swing Vote, Reviewed 8/07/08
Brideshead Revisited, Reviewed 7/24/08
The Dark Knight, Reviewed 7/17/08
The Wackness, Reviewed 7/10/08
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Reviewed 7/03/08
Get Smart; OSS 117, Reviewed 6/26/08
Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation, Reviewed 5/22/08
Redbelt, Reviewed 5/15/08
Last Year at Marienbad, Reviewed 5/1/08
The Visitor, Reviewed 4/17/08
Anti-Fantasy By and large, the best films of 2008 kept it real.
By J.R. Jones
For more, see the Reader Archive
Jonathan Rosenbaum's new Web site, jonathanrosenbaum.com, has launched. Rosenbaum has retired but we've collected his favorite reviews, over a decade's worth of top-ten lists, an interview, and more.
The Best Movies of 2007:
Local premieres of a dozen masterpieces--almost none released in the past 12 months--made 2007 a good movie year. by Jonathan Rosenbaum
In a year when shirking responsibility was the rule, movies about accepting it stood out. by J.R. Jones
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Excerpts from Jonathan Rosenbaum's Movie Wars: How Hollywood and
the
Media Limit What Movies We Can See.
Rosenbaum's Top 40 Films of 2002, 2000.
Rosenbaum's Top Ten for 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2001, 1999, 1998, 1997, and
1996.
100 best American films.
Ten Best Movies of the 90s.
Where's the old On Film archive?
Film listings are compiled by J.R. Jones and Pat Graham. Please submit screenings
(include phone numbers) to movies@chicagoreader.com
or Movie Listings, Chicago Reader, 11 E. Illinois, Chicago 60611. Occasionally bookings change after our deadline; we suggest calling ahead for confirmation. Most films are screened in 35-millimeter and most videos are projected. Where possible, exceptions are noted.
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