Chicago Reader Brief Movie Reviews

This list shows long reviews and other movie articles published in the Reader between March 8, 1996, when we started our online film archive, and September 14, 2001, when it was subsumed into our general online archive. Reviews are by Jonathan Rosenbaum unless otherwise noted. These and other movie articles are accessible through the Reader Archive.
15 Minutes, 3/23/2001
20 Dates, reviewed by Bill Stamets, 3/26/99
100 Best American Films, 6/26/98
A.I. Artificial Intelligence, 7/13/2001
The Adopted Son; Destiny, 4/02/99
All the Little Animals; Mr. Zhao, 9/3/99
Almost Famous; Duets, 9/22/2000
Alone; Life Wastes Andy Hardy, 2/18/2000
American Beauty, 9/24/99
American History X; Pleasantville, 11/06/98
America's Sweethearts; The Score, 7/20/2001
The Anniversary Party, 6/22/2001
Apocalypse Now Redux, 8/17/2001
The Apostle; Kundun, 1/30/98
As Good as It Gets, 12/26/97
The Asthenic Syndrome, 9/13/96
Autumn Tale, 8/20/99
Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life; Primary Colors, 3/20/98
Beau Travail, 5/26/2000
Films by Bela Tarr, 5/10/96
Bent; Viktor und Viktoria, reviewed by Albert Williams, 11/7/97
Berlin-Jerusalem, reviewed by Fred Camper, 7/6/2001
Besieged, 6/11/99
The Beyond; Funny Games, reviewed by Lisa Alspector, 7/10/98
Beyond the Clouds, 4/7/2000
The Big Lebowski; Twilight, 3/06/98
The Big Sleep, 6/20/97
The Birth of Love; Le Samourai, 6/06/97
Bittersweet Motel, reviewed by J.R. Jones, 9/15/2000
The Bloody Child, 9/27/96
Blooper Bunny; The Pledge; The Wedding Planner; Shadow of the Vampire, 1/26/2001
Blush, 10/04/96
Boesman & Lena , 2/2/2001
Bonjour Tristesse, reviewed by Fred Camper, 9/24/99
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, 11/03/2000
Boys Don’t Cry, 10/22/99
Brakhage, reviewed by Fred Camper, 12/03/99
New Films by Stan Brakhage , reviewed by Fred Camper, 9/10/99
Stan Brakhage: New Films, reviewed by Fred Camper, 5/18/2001.
Breakdown; Night Falls on Manhattan, 5/16/97
Breaking the Waves, 12/06/96
Films by Robert Breer, reviewed by Fred Camper, 6/06/97
The Brigands: Chapter VII; Out of Sight, 7/03/98
Buffalo ’66, 8/7/98
Bulworth, 5/22/98
Films by Luis Buñuel, 11/10/2000
The Burning Man Festival and Burning Man: Just Add Couches, reviewed by Bill Boisvert, 10/30/98
Can Dialectics Break Bricks?, 2/21/97
The Celebration, 11/13/98
The Ceremony, 2/14/97
Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman, 10/24/97
, 10/01/99
Chicago International Film Festival (introductory essay #2) , 10/08/99
Chicago International Film Festival (introductory essay #3) , 10/15/99
Children of the Revolution, 5/23/97
The Circle, 6/8/2001
Citizen Ruth; Inventing the Abbots, 4/04/97
Contact; Men in Black, 7/11/97
Contempt, 9/5/97
Crash, 3/21/97
The Crucible; Ghosts of Mississippi 12/20/96
Cruel Intentions, 3/5/99
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, 8/31/01
Cyclo, 11/01/96
Dancer in the Dark, 10/27/2000
The Day I Became a Woman, 4/6/2001
Dead Man, 6/28/96
The Decalogue; Fargo, 3/29/96
The Deep End; Under the Sand; Ghost World, 8/04/01
Deseret, 3/15/96
Destiny; The Adopted Son, 4/02/99
Dr. Akagi, 5/07/99
Drifting Clouds, 7/10/98
Duets; Almost Famous, 9/22/2000
Duo, 2/26/99
The Edge of the World, 6/9/2000
Edtv, 3/26/99
The Eel, 9/11/98
Eighteen Springs, 4/17/98
El Valley Centro, 12/03/99
L’ennui, 1/28/2000
Escape From L.A.; Foxfire; Tin Cup, 8/30/96
Eureka, reviewed by Fred Camper, 5/4/2001
Everyone Says I Love You; Mother , 1/24/97
Eyes Wide Shut , 7/23/99
Face/Off, reviewed by Patrick Z. McGavin, 7/25/97
A Family Thing, 4/12/96
Fargo; The Decalogue, 3/29/96
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control, 11/14/97
Fetishes, reviewed by Bill Stamets, 8/8/97
The Final Insult, 3/27/98
First Wives Club, reviewed by Anthony Puccinelli, 10/11/96
Films by Oskar Fischinger, 4/20/2001
Flaming Creatures; Scotch Tape, 2/20/98
Forces of Nature, reviewed by Gina Fattore, 4/02/99
Four Corners, 12/12/97
The Fourth Dimension; Signs & Wonders, 6/15/2001
Foxfire; Escape From L.A.; Tin Cup, 8/30/96
The Frighteners; Multiplicity; Special Effects; The Nutty Professor, 7/19/96
Pictures of an Exhibition(ist): Film by Brian Frye, reviewed by Fred Camper, 9/11/98
Funny Games; The Beyond, reviewed by Lisa Alspector, 7/10/98
Gabbeh; She’s So Lovely, 8/29/97
Films by Ernie Gehr, reviewed by Fred Camper, 3/3/2000
Films by Janie Geiser, reviewed by Fred Camper, 5/26/2000
George of the Jungle, 8/01/97
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai , 3/17/2000
Ghost World; The Deep End; Under the Sand, 8/04/01
Ghosts of Mississippi; The Crucible , 12/20/96
The Gingerbread Man, 2/27/98
Girl 6, reviewed by Bill Stamets, 4/5/96
Girlfight, reviewed by Sunil Malapati, 11/3/2000
The Gleaners and I, 5/11/2001
Gloria, 1/29/99
The Graduate, 3/28/97
Greed, 11/26/99
Gummo, 4/10/98
Habit, reviewed by Joshua Katzman, 3/21/97
Happy Together, 1/23/98
The Hart of London, reviewed by Fred Camper, 6/23/2000
Have Plenty; Mr. Jealousy, 6/19/98
The Heart of the World , 2/23/2001
Hit and Runway, 9/7/2001
Hollow Man, 8/11/2000
Films by Hou Hsiao-hsien, 6/2/2000
L’humanité, 6/23/2000
A Humble Life, 3/3/2000
I Stand Alone, 7/9/99
An Ideal Husband, 6/25/99
In the Company of Men, 8/15/97
International Harvest: multiple reviews,11/22/96
Inventing the Abbots; Citizen Ruth, 4/04/97
Irma Vep, 6/13/97
It Happened Here; Winstanley, 4/23/99
Jerry Maguire, reviewed by Anthony Puccinelli, 1/17/97
Jiang Hu -- The Triad Zone, reviewed by Steve Erickson, 3/2/2001
Cartoons by Chuck Jones, reviewed by Fred Camper, 3/2/2001
Jour de fete, 1/16/98
Khroustaliov, My Car!; A Time Code, 4/28/2000
Kiss, reviewed by Lisa Alspector, 4/25/97
Kikujiro, 6/30/2000
The King Is Alive, 5/18/2001.
Kippur, reviewed by Fred Camper, 1/5/2001
Kundun; The Apostle, 1/30/98
Films by Christian Labrat; The Melba Films, reviewed by Fred Camper, 4/21/2000
Larger Than Life, 11/15/96
Lost Highway; Three Lives and Only One Death, 2/28/97
The Lost World: Jurassic Park, reviewed by Bill Stamets, 5/30/97
The Lovers of the Arctic Circle, 5/14/99
The Loyal 47 Ronin, reviewed by Fred Camper, 2/07/97
The Luzhin Defence, 5/4/2001
M, 8/8/97
Films by Christopher Maclaine, reviewed by Fred Camper, 6/04/99
Films by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 4/11/97
Mars Attacks!, 12/13/96
Films by Yasuzo Masumura, 4/98
Medea; Sunday, 9/26/97
The Melba Films; Films by Christian Labrat, reviewed by Fred Camper, 4/21/2000
Men in Black; Contact, 7/11/97
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil; The Rainmaker, 11/28/97
Mission: Impossible; The Phantom; My Favorite Season, 6/07/96
Mission: Impossible 2; Shanghai Noon, reviewed by Sergio Barreto, 7/7/2000
The Mother and the Whore, 1/22/99
Mother; Everyone Says I Love You, 1/24/97
Mr. 420/The Vagabond, 8/18/2000
Mr. Jealousy; Have Plenty, 6/19/98
Mr. Zhao; All the Little Animals, 9/3/99
Mulan, reviewed by Matt Roth, 7/17/98
Multiplicity; The Frighteners; Special Effects; The Nutty Professor, 7/19/96
The Muse, 8/27/99
Music Movies: Eight jazz films, 8/3/01
My Best Fiend 2/11/2000
My Best Friend’s Wedding, reviewed by Gina Fattore, 8/01/97
My Favorite Season; Mission: Impossible; The Phantom, 6/07/96
My Giant, 4/10/98
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie, 4/19/96
Negative Space, 5/12/2000
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud; Welcome to the Dollhouse, 6/21/96
The Neon Bible, 4/05/96
Night Falls on Manhattan; Breakdown, 5/16/97
Nightjohn, 7/12/96
Nights of Cabiria, 8/21/98
No Smoking; Smoking; Quills, 12/15/2000
Nowhere to Hide, reviewed by Steve Erickson, 1/5/2001
The Nutty Professor; Multiplicity; The Frighteners; Special Effects, 7/19/96
One Day in the Life of Andre Arsenevich, 9/15/2000
The Phantom; Mission: Impossible; My Favorite Season, 6/07/96
Pi, reviewed by Bill Boisvert, 8/21/98
Pleasantville; American History X, 11/06/98
The Pledge; Blooper Bunny; The Wedding Planner; Shadow of the Vampire, 1/26/2001
Ponette, reviewed by Patrick Z. McGavin, 6/27/97
Primary Colors; Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life, 3/20/98
Private Parts, reviewed by Jim DeRogatis, 3/28/97
The Patriot, reviewed by Reece Pendleton, 7/14/2000
La promesse, 8/22/97
Psycho, 12/25/98
Pushing Tin, 4/30/99
Quills; Smoking; No Smoking, 12/15/2000
The Rainmaker; Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 11/28/97
Rear Window, 2/25/2000
Red Hollywood, 8/09/96
Requiem for a Dream, 12/01/2000
The River, 4/14/2000
Films by Eric Rohmer, reviewed by Patrick Z. McGavin, 4/13/2001
Romance, 11/12/99
Rosetta, 1/14/2000
Rosewood, reviewed by Bill Stamets, 2/28/97
Run Lola Run, 7/2/99
Rushmore, 2/12/99
Saving Private Ryan; Small Soldiers, 7/24/98
The Score; America's Sweethearts, 7/20/2001
Scotch Tape; Flaming Creatures, 2/20/98
Scream, reviewed by Bill Stamets, 1/17/97
Secrets and Lies, 10/25/96
The Sentinel, 12/04/98
Sexy Beast, reviewed by Joshua Katzman, 9/14/2001
Shadow of the Vampire; The Wedding Planner; Blooper Bunny; The Pledge, 1/26/2001
Shanghai Noon; Mission: Impossible 2, reviewed by Sergio Barreto, 7/7/2000
She’s So Lovely; Gabbeh, 8/29/97
Shower, 7/28/2000
Shulie, 11/20/98
Signs & Wonders; The Fourth Dimension, 6/15/2001
Six O’Clock News, 4/24/98
Sleep, reviewed by Fred Camper, 4/28/2000
Sleepy Hollow, 11/19/99
Sling Blade, 4/25/97
Small Soldiers; Saving Private Ryan, 7/24/98
Small Time Crooks, 5/19/2000
Smilla’s Sense of Snow, 3/07/97
Films and videos by John Smith, reviewed by Fred Camper, 9/7/2001
Smoking; No Smoking; Quills, 12/15/2000
Snake Eyes, 9/4/98
The Son of Gascogne, 8/14/98
Sonatine, reviewed by Patrick Z. McGavin, 4/24/98
South, reviewed by Fred Camper, 1/21/2000
Special Effects; Multiplicity; The Frighteners; The Nutty Professor, 7/19/96
Starship Troopers, 11/21/97
Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace; Trekkies, 5/21/99
Star Wars: Special Edition, 1/31/97
The Straight Story, 10/22/99
Stromboli, reviewed by Fred Camper, 9/29/2000
Sunday; Medea, 9/26/97
Supercop, reviewed by Anthony Puccinelli, 8/09/96
Suzhou River, 3/9/2001
Swingers, reviewed by Gina Fattore, 1/10/97
Taboo, 1/19/2001
Taste of Cherry, 5/29/98
Taxi Driver, 4/01/96
Thieves, 12/27/96
The Thin Red Line, 1/15/99
The Third Man, 7/30/99
Three Lives and Only One Death; Lost Highway, 2/28/97
The Tic Code, 9/1/2000
A Time Code; Khroustaliov, My Car!, 4/28/2000
Time Regained, 7/21/2000
A Time to Kill, reviewed by Anthony Puccinelli, 8/16/96
Tin Cup; Escape From L.A.; Foxfire, 8/30/96
Titanic, 12/19/97
The Third Man , 7/30/99
The Thirteenth Floor, 6/4/99
30 Frames a Second: The WTO in Seattle, 8/18/2000
The Thomas Crown Affair , 8/06/99
Films by Andre de Toth, reviewed by Fred Camper, 10/03/97
Touch of Evil, reviewed by Fred Camper, 9/18/98
The Films of Jim Trainor, reviewed by Fred Camper, 6/16/2000
Trainspotting, 8/02/96
Trekkies; Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace, 5/21/99
Trixie, 7/14/2000
The Truman Show, 6/05/98
Twilight; The Big Lebowski, 3/06/98
Ulee’s Gold, 6/27/97
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, 5/17/96
Un air de famille, 10/02/98
Under the Sand; Ghost World; The Deep End, 8/04/01
Up Down Fragile, 7/26/96
Utopia, 12/18/98
The Vagabond/Mr. 420, 8/18/2000
The Vertical Ray of the Sun, 9/14/2001
Viktor und Viktoria; Bent, reviewed by Albert Williams, 11/7/97
Volcano, reviewed by Bill Stamets, 5/23/97
Waking the Dead, 3/24/2000
The Wedding Planner; Blooper Bunny; The Pledge; Shadow of the Vampire, 1/26/2001
Films by Chris Welsby, reviewed by Fred Camper, 4/13/2001
Welcome to Sarajevo, reviewed by Matt Roth, 1/16/98
Welcome to the Dollhouse; Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud, 6/21/96
Western, 4/09/99
When We Were Kings, reviewed by Reece Pendleton, 3/07/97
The Wind Will Carry Us, 12/08/2000
Winstanley; It Happened Here, 4/23/99
The White Balloon, 3/08/96
The Widow of Saint-Pierre, 3/30/2001
Wrapped Reichstag, 12/03/99
Films of Edward Yang, 11/7/97
Yi Yi, 3/2/2001
The Young Girls of Rochefort, 11/24/98
On Film Main Screen | Now Showing | Critics' Choices | Showtimes

Subscription and general information about the Reader.

Questions? Comments? Send us a message.


Copyright © 1996-2001 Chicago Reader Inc.