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The Terminator (1984) 90% 2/4 EDIT “Unfortunately, a lot of the sardonic humor plays as if it's unintentional. Much of the movie is trite, if not outright stolen material.” – Chicago Tribune Dec 8, 2025 Full Review The Legend of Billie Jean (1985) 39% 2/4 EDIT “Teenagers, who may not have seen this picture's many hero/outlaw predecessors, might like its the pop soundtrack, better-than-average acting and modest punk attire. Everyone else is likely to find Billie Jean the very thing that becomes a legend least.” – Chicago Tribune Nov 17, 2023 Full Review Club Paradise (1986) 11% 2/4 EDIT “The whole, crowded thing begins to resemble a low-brow Nashville.” – Chicago Tribune Jul 26, 2014 Full Review Fright Night (1985) 83% 3/4 EDIT “Fright Night dances on a tightwire between satire and terror, glittered by special effects and a with-it nonchalance.” – Chicago Tribune Sep 11, 2013 Full Review My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) 95% 3/4 EDIT “Kureishi and Frears are better at depicting a new milieu than in making an important or innovative statement.” – Chicago Tribune May 13, 2013 Full Review The Prince Contemplating His Soul (2005) 58% 3/4 EDIT “The cycle of youth and age and the trope of a journey come together inevitably, maybe predictably, but not without sparks of wisdom.” – Chicago Tribune Oct 18, 2008 Full Review Diva (1981) 97% 3.5/4 EDIT “The movie's a maelstrom of possibilities touching ethnic relations, high art, fashion and modern morality, not to mention cinema.” – Chicago Tribune Oct 18, 2008 Full Review Bra Boys (2007) 57% 2.5/4 EDIT “A messy, cheeky, inelegant but unusual and interesting memoir.” – Chicago Tribune Oct 18, 2008 Full Review What We Do Is Secret (2007) 45% 3/4 EDIT “The best parts of Secret recall Sid and Nancy. The worst evoke the last, inferior A Star Is Born.” – Chicago Tribune Aug 15, 2008 Full Review Wonderful Town (2007) 86% 3/4 EDIT “There's a folksy majesty to Wonderful Town, born of its leisurely pace, pastoral views of idyllic scenery and a storytelling drive set only slightly faster than slow motion. It recalls a lot of rustic, independent English-language films of the '90s” – Chicago Tribune Aug 15, 2008 Full Review Girls Rock! (2007) 70% 2/4 EDIT “There's too little clarity or thoroughness in the biographies, too few prolonged scenes of the girls creating their songs.” – Chicago Tribune Aug 1, 2008 Full Review Yella (2007) 82% 2.5/4 EDIT “The German offering Yella begins with an utterly gripping first 15 minutes, follows with a passable drama and ends with a big disappointment.” – Chicago Tribune Jul 31, 2008 Full Review Chris & Don: A Love Story (2007) 94% 3.5/4 EDIT “There's a bit of Pygmalion meets The Portrait of Dorian Gray to it, and yet part of the documentary's slyness involves probing those aspects while never losing sight of the pain and glories of any emotional relationship that lasts as long as” – Chicago Tribune Jul 31, 2008 Full Review A Jihad for Love (2007) 78% 2.5/4 EDIT “For various reasons, many of the subjects are interviewed with their faces blurred or hidden, understandably preserving anonymity but maintaining a distance that's unfortunate.” – Chicago Tribune Jul 24, 2008 Full Review CSNY: Deja Vu (2008) 68% 3/4 EDIT “CSNY: Dj Vu brings back glimmers of the old glory and touchingly suggests that the body may age, but the spirit of the Woodstock nation endures.” – Chicago Tribune Jul 24, 2008 Full Review OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006) 76% 2/4 EDIT “French cinema's reputation for subtlety goes up in smoke with OSS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies, a movie whose satire proves as lame as its clunky title.” – Chicago Tribune Jun 26, 2008 Full Review Surfwise (2007) 98% 3/4 EDIT “The unorthodox upbringing of the Paskowitz clan is the subject of Surfwise, the story of a family who lived on the road, camped at the beachfront and fashioned its own vanguard version of 1960s-'70s alternative lifestyles.” – Chicago Tribune Jun 19, 2008 Full Review Refusenik (2007) 91% 3.5/4 EDIT “There are fascinating archival clips that show rare glimpses of early years of struggle behind the Iron Curtain, while the story eventually moves through such momentous footage as the Helsinki Accords and the fall of the Berlin Wall.” – Chicago Tribune Jun 19, 2008 Full Review And When Did You Last See Your Father? (2007) 72% 3.5/4 EDIT “The catharsis here is all the more moving because of what wasn't finished, what remained unsaid and what in the answer to the title's question proves unknowable.” – Chicago Tribune Jun 13, 2008 Full Review Fugitive Pieces (2007) 68% 3/4 EDIT “Fugitive Pieces is often quiet, lyrical, reflective and underplayed. It doesn't minimize Holocaust suffering--far from it--but it strives, often successfully, to unearth the innate good in people Anne Frank alluded to so eloquently.” – Chicago Tribune Jun 13, 2008 Full Review This Is My Father (1998) 78% 3/4 EDIT “The disturbing, embarrassing domestic moments and conflicts are quirky, slightly weird, and yet they boast the shock of recognition because they're so true to the strife in every family.” – Chicago Tribune Jun 12, 2008 Full Review Crossed Tracks (2007) 86% 3/4 EDIT “Lelouch's deft touch with various cinematic styles, however surface, enables him to interweave pastoral elegy, quirky social comedy and thriller with fluid ease.” – Chicago Tribune May 22, 2008 Full Review Irina Palm (2007) 65% 3/4 EDIT “Irina Palm is saddled with an odd title, an outlandish plot and an unlikely star--notorious rock maven Marianne Faithfull cast as a suburban frump. But it turns out a success” – Chicago Tribune May 15, 2008 Full Review Last Year at Marienbad (1961) 93% 4/4 EDIT “To even talk of a story is nonsensical, since a central aesthetic of the film involves the effects of fantasy, time and subjective memory on human consciousness. Marienbad takes place in a heightened, sci-fi nightmare world where knowing, believing” – Chicago Tribune May 1, 2008 Full Review Then She Found Me (2007) 50% 3/4 EDIT “There's a gentle realism that makes room for laughs, drama and the slightest touch of farce, never spilling into the comically cheap and managing to explore subtler issues involving adoption” – Chicago Tribune May 1, 2008 Full Review
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