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	1719 Reviews by Roger Ebert 1719 Reviews by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times Movie: Starting Out in the Evening Release date: 11/23/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) ...a film about people who think literature is worth devoting a lifetime to. People who think gre... 33 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bee Movie Release date: 11/2/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) ...tries hard, but never really takes off. 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: Martian Child Release date: 11/2/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) ...bland and safe... 81 other reviews of this movie Movie: Martian Child Release date: 11/2/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) So bland and safe that it might appeal more directly to children than adults. 81 other reviews of this movie Movie: The Kite Runner Release date: 11/2/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) How long has it been since you saw a movie that succeeds as pure story? 25 other reviews of this movie Movie: American Gangster Release date: 11/2/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) ...an engrossing story, told smoothly and well... 167 other reviews of this movie Movie: American Gangster Release date: 11/2/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) This is an engrossing story, told smoothly and well, and Russell Crowe's contribution is enormous... 167 other reviews of this movie Movie: Darfur Now Release date: 11/2/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) If it accomplishes nothing else, Darfur Now locates Sudan on the map -- More than that, the film ... 41 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bella Release date: 10/26/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) A heart-tugger with the confidence not to tug too hard. 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bella Release date: 10/26/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) The movie is not profound, but it's not stupid. 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: Music Within Release date: 10/26/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) ...an entertaining, sometimes inspiring film... 17 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dan in Real Life Release date: 10/26/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) There are some loud moments and big laughs. 92 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dan in Real Life Release date: 10/26/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) ...there are some loud moments and big laughs... 92 other reviews of this movie Movie: Jimmy Carter Man from Plains Release date: 10/26/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) One reason to see this film might be to learn more about [Carter's] views on the Middle East, but... 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: 30 Days Of Night Release date: 10/19/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) ...a better than average example of the genre... 52 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wristcutters: A Love Story Release date: 10/19/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) We witness the birth of a new genre, the Post-Slasher Movie. 54 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rendition Release date: 10/19/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) ...terrifying, intelligent... 124 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rendition Release date: 10/19/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) What the film documents is that we have lost faith in due process and the rule of law, and have f... 124 other reviews of this movie Movie: Things We Lost in the Fire Release date: 10/19/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) The key performance in the film is by Del Toro, who never overplays, who sidesteps any temptation... 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Things We Lost in the Fire Release date: 10/19/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) The movie is an engrossing melodrama, and it has its heart in the right place. 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Gone Baby Gone Release date: 10/19/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) There are dark regions below the surface of the story. 74 other reviews of this movie Movie: Elizabeth: The Golden Age Release date: 10/12/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) ...weighed down by its splendor. 110 other reviews of this movie Movie: Elizabeth: The Golden Age Release date: 10/12/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) There are scenes where the costumes are so sumptuous, the sets so vast, the music so insistent, t... 110 other reviews of this movie Movie: We Own the Night Release date: 10/12/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) ...the film is made with confidence and energy and is well acted by the principals. 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lars and the Real Girl Release date: 10/12/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) Its weapon is absolute sincerity. 97 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lars and the Real Girl Release date: 10/12/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) Only after the movie is over do you realize what a balancing act it was, what risks it took, what... 97 other reviews of this movie Movie: Heartbreak Kid, The Release date: 10/5/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) ...the film is a squirmy miscalculation of tone. 119 other reviews of this movie Movie: Heartbreak Kid, The Release date: 10/5/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) A squirmy miscalculation of tone. 119 other reviews of this movie Movie: My Kid Could Paint That Release date: 10/5/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) ...the film has an open ending. 55 other reviews of this movie Movie: My Kid Could Paint That Release date: 10/5/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) The truth lurking beneath My Kid Could Paint That is that your kid couldn't paint that. 55 other reviews of this movie Movie: Michael Clayton Release date: 10/5/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) It is just about perfect as an exercise in the genre. I've seen it twice, and the second time, kn... 126 other reviews of this movie Movie: Michael Clayton Release date: 10/5/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) George Clooney brings a slick, ruthless force to the title role of Michael Clayton... 126 other reviews of this movie Movie: The Darjeeling Limited Release date: 9/29/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) A better film [than Life Aquatic], warmer, more engaging, funnier and very surrounded by India, t... 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: The Darjeeling Limited Release date: 9/29/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) ...a movie that meanders so persuasively it gets us meandering right along. 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lust, Caution Release date: 9/28/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) ...first languid, then passionate... 88 other reviews of this movie Movie: Feast of Love Release date: 9/28/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) Benton has made better movies about doomed marriages (Kramer vs. Kramer), but this one has no org... 85 other reviews of this movie Movie: The Jane Austen Book Club Release date: 9/21/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) [Swicord] has created characters who really do seem to have read the books and talk like they hav... 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: The Jane Austen Book Club Release date: 9/21/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) The movie is a celebration of reading, and oddly enough that works... 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: Good Luck Chuck Release date: 9/21/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) Here is the dirty movie of the year, slimy and scummy... 38 other reviews of this movie Movie: Good Luck Chuck Release date: 9/21/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) Here is the dirty movie of the year, slimy and scummy, and among its casualties is poor Jessica A... 38 other reviews of this movie Movie: Trade Release date: 9/21/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) ...the movie seems to have an unwholesome determination to show us the victims being terrified an... 43 other reviews of this movie Movie: Into the Wild Release date: 9/21/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) ...spellbinding... 73 other reviews of this movie Movie: In the Valley of Elah Release date: 9/14/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Paul Haggis' In the Valley of Elah is built on Tommy Lee Jones' persona, and that is why it w... 105 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mr. Woodcock Release date: 9/14/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The thing about Thornton is, he makes no compromises and takes no prisoners... 95 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mr. Woodcock Release date: 9/14/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) To laugh at parts of this film would indicate one has a streak of Woodcockism in oneself. But to ... 95 other reviews of this movie Movie: The Brave One Release date: 9/14/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...spellbinding. 143 other reviews of this movie Movie: December Boys Release date: 9/14/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) There seem to be two movies going on here at the same time, and December Boys would have been bet... 57 other reviews of this movie Movie: December Boys Release date: 9/14/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) There seem to be two movies going on here at the same time, and December Boys would have been... 57 other reviews of this movie Movie: Eastern Promises Release date: 9/14/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...no ordinary crime thriller... 88 other reviews of this movie Movie: Silk Release date: 9/14/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...a languid, too languid, story of romantic regrets... 48 other reviews of this movie Movie: 3:10 to Yuma Release date: 9/7/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...restores the wounded heart of the Western and rescues it from the morass of point-less violenc... 159 other reviews of this movie Movie: In the Shadow of the Moon Release date: 9/7/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) The interviews with the astronauts are intercut with footage that is new, in great part, and look... 78 other reviews of this movie Movie: In the Shadow of the Moon Release date: 9/7/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) A researcher for this production spent years screening NASA footage that was still, in many cases... 78 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shoot 'Em Up Release date: 9/7/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...the most audacious, implausible, cheerfully offensive, hyperactive action picture I've seen si... 98 other reviews of this movie Movie: I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With Release date: 9/5/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) It celebrates its modesty, it becomes our friend, we're surprisingly touched by it even though it... 41 other reviews of this movie Movie: Exiled Release date: 8/31/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...I admire Exiled for moving and building fluently. 49 other reviews of this movie Movie: Self-Medicated Release date: 8/31/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) On the basis of this film, Monty Lapica, at 24, has a career ahead of him as a director, an actor... 34 other reviews of this movie Movie: Self-Medicated Release date: 8/31/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) On the basis of this film, Monty Lapica, at 24, has a career ahead of him as a director, an actor... 34 other reviews of this movie Movie: Death Sentence Release date: 8/31/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...very efficient. 93 other reviews of this movie Movie: Balls of Fury Release date: 8/29/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Don�t expect me to explain the rules and purposes of the tournament, if it has any. I was preoccu... 98 other reviews of this movie Movie: Balls of Fury Release date: 8/29/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Don¿t expect me to explain the rules and purposes of the tournament, if it has any. I was preocc... 98 other reviews of this movie Movie: The Hottest State Release date: 8/24/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) I admired Hawke's directorial debut, Chelsea Walls (2001), ever so much more than this movie.... 37 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dedication Release date: 8/24/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) Maybe I would like Dedication more if I had not seen its separate elements time and again. 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dedication Release date: 8/24/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) Billy Crudup and Mandy Moore are immensely likable. We like them so much we regret having to see ... 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: Resurrecting the Champ Release date: 8/24/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Jackson disappears into his role, completely convincing, but then he usually is. 92 other reviews of this movie Movie: Resurrecting the Champ Release date: 8/24/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Jackson disappears into his role, completely convincing, but then he usually is. What a fine acto... 92 other reviews of this movie Movie: Nanny Diaries, The Release date: 8/24/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...the movie itself is sort of bland and obvious and comfortable. 78 other reviews of this movie Movie: Illegal Tender Release date: 8/24/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...has the potential to be a better film than it is. 40 other reviews of this movie Movie: Illegal Tender Release date: 8/24/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Illegal Tender has the potential to be a better film than it is. 40 other reviews of this movie Movie: September Dawn Release date: 8/24/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) What a strange, confused, unpleasant movie this is. 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: The 11th Hour Release date: 8/17/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) I agree with every word in this tedious documentary. 73 other reviews of this movie Movie: King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, The Release date: 8/17/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...a documentary that is beyond strange... 66 other reviews of this movie Movie: Superbad Release date: 8/17/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) In its very raunchiness, it finds truth, because if you know nothing about sex, how can you be ta... 151 other reviews of this movie Movie: Superbad Release date: 8/17/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) A four-letter raunch-a-rama with a heart. 151 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rush Hour 3 Release date: 8/10/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...enjoy that modest degree of goodness... 139 other reviews of this movie Movie: 2 Days in Paris Release date: 8/10/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) [Delpy has] created two original, quirky characters so obsessed with their differences that Paris... 79 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stardust Release date: 8/10/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It's a film you enjoy in pieces, but the jigsaw never gets solved. 123 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rocket Science Release date: 8/10/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The thing about Rocket Science is that its behavior, even its villainy, is within plausible m... 71 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rocket Science Release date: 8/10/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It may gross as little as Welcome to the Dollhouse or as much as Clueless, but whichever it does,... 71 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bourne Ultimatum, The Release date: 8/3/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...mind-blowing action... 177 other reviews of this movie Movie: Cantante, El Release date: 8/3/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Anthony and Lopez are married in real life, and make a convincing couple onscreen, but in the mov... 83 other reviews of this movie Movie: Becoming Jane Release date: 8/3/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...a movie every Janeite will want to see, although many will not approve of it. 111 other reviews of this movie Movie: Becoming Jane Release date: 8/3/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The director, Julian Jarrold, is comfortable with the material, and it is comfortable with him. 111 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hot Rod Release date: 8/3/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It's funny pretty much all the way through, even in the final showdown between Rod and his stepda... 87 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hot Rod Release date: 8/3/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie is funny because it is sincere. 87 other reviews of this movie Movie: No Reservations Release date: 7/27/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie is a remake of Mostly Martha (2001), a German film very much liked by many. No Reservat... 134 other reviews of this movie Movie: No End in Sight Release date: 7/27/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Remember the scene in A Clockwork Orange where Alex has his eyes clamped open and is forced to wa... 80 other reviews of this movie Movie: No End in Sight Release date: 7/27/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) This is not a documentary filled with anti-war activists or sitting ducks for Michael Moore. 80 other reviews of this movie Movie: Simpsons Movie, The Release date: 7/27/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...funny, sassy and intelligent in that moronic Simpsons' way. 154 other reviews of this movie Movie: Arctic Tale Release date: 7/25/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Despite its sad scenes, it sentimentalizes. It attributes human emotions and motivations to its c... 79 other reviews of this movie Movie: Arctic Tale Release date: 7/25/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The dilemma the movie sidesteps is that being a polar bear or a walrus is a violent undertaking. 79 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sunshine Release date: 7/20/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...strongest when it focuses on the sheer enormity of the mission and its consequences. 121 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hairspray Release date: 7/20/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie seems guileless and rambunctious, but it looks just right... 27 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hairspray Release date: 7/20/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie is a bubble-headed series of teenage crises and crushes, alternating with historically ... 27 other reviews of this movie Movie: My Best Friend Release date: 7/13/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It was directed by Patrice Leconte, who makes intelligent films combining sympathy for his charac... 55 other reviews of this movie Movie: Talk to Me Release date: 7/13/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie begins with a whirlpool of comedy and manic energy, and then grows, as it must, more se... 80 other reviews of this movie Movie: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Release date: 7/11/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...there is no denying that Order of the Phoenix is a well-crafted entry in the Potter se... 179 other reviews of this movie Movie: Death at a Funeral Release date: 6/29/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...finds its comedy in the peculiar human trait of being most tempted to laugh when we're absolut... 74 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sicko Release date: 6/29/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Moore's films usually make conservatives angry. This one is likely to strike home with anyone, le... 150 other reviews of this movie Movie: Evening Release date: 6/29/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) There are few things more depressing than a weeper that doesn't make you weep. 110 other reviews of this movie Movie: Broken English Release date: 6/22/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) Broken English establishes a sympathetic character, gets Parker Posey to make her real, and then ... 64 other reviews of this movie Movie: Broken English Release date: 6/22/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...(Parker Posey) is well cast... 64 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mighty Heart, A Release date: 6/22/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) What is best about A Mighty Heart is that it doesn't reduce the Daniel Pearl story to a plot, but... 131 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mighty Heart, A Release date: 6/22/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) What is best about A Mighty Heart is that it doesn't reduce the Daniel Pearl story to a plot,... 131 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lady Chatterley Release date: 6/22/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/0) All of the qualities its admirers see in the film are indeed there, and visible, but I was not mu... 41 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ocean's Thirteen Release date: 6/8/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...I grew impatient with the lickety-split pacing. This material is interesting enough that it ne... 157 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bug Release date: 5/25/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...a work of headlong passion. 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shrek the Third Release date: 5/18/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It makes the mistake of thinking slapstick action is funny for its own sake. True, characters zoo... 149 other reviews of this movie Movie: Black Snake Moan Release date: 3/2/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...the oddest, most peculiar movie I've seen about sex and race and redemption in the Deep South. 146 other reviews of this movie Movie: Black Snake Moan Release date: 3/2/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) I love the way that both Samuel Jackson and Christina Ricci take chances like this, and the way t... 146 other reviews of this movie Movie: Black Snake Moan Release date: 3/2/2007 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) I love the way that both Samuel Jackson and Christina Ricci take chances like this, and the way t... 146 other reviews of this movie Movie: Three Times Release date: 12/31/2006 11:01:45 PM Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Three varieties of love: unfulfilled, mercenary, meaningless. All photographed with such visual b... 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: Saving Shiloh Release date: 12/31/2006 11:01:44 PM Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It's a family film that deals with real problems and teaches real values, and yet is exciting and... 21 other reviews of this movie Movie: Saving Shiloh Release date: 12/31/2006 11:01:44 PM Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It's a family film that deals with real problems and teaches real values, and yet is exciting and... 21 other reviews of this movie Movie: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Release date: 12/27/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It took imagination to tell it, courage to film it, thought to act it, and from the audience it r... 54 other reviews of this movie Movie: Breaking and Entering Release date: 12/15/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of RogerEbert.com: (4/3) What are the meaningful connections between these people's lives? Are they real and significant, ... 103 other reviews of this movie Movie: For Your Consideration Release date: 11/17/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (4/3) ...captures certain essential, absurd truths about how movies are made these days: 128 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stranger Than Fiction Release date: 11/10/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) What a thoughtful film this is, and how thought-stirring. 131 other reviews of this movie Movie: Volver Release date: 11/3/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...enchanting... 67 other reviews of this movie Movie: Queen, The Release date: 9/30/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...a spellbinding story of opposed passions... 152 other reviews of this movie Movie: Devil Wears Prada, The Release date: 6/30/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The Devil Wears Prada is being positioned as a movie for grown-ups and others who know what, or w... 154 other reviews of this movie Movie: Devil Wears Prada, The Release date: 6/30/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...I thought the movie should have reversed the roles played by Grenier and Baker... 154 other reviews of this movie Movie: Superman Returns Release date: 6/28/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) This is a glum, lackluster movie in which even the big effects sequences seem dutiful instead of ... 258 other reviews of this movie Movie: Superman Returns Release date: 6/28/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) This is a glum, lackluster movie in which even the big effects sequences seem dutiful instead of ... 258 other reviews of this movie Movie: Click Release date: 6/23/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It's not just sad, it's brutal. 59 other reviews of this movie Movie: Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties Release date: 6/16/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...funnier and more charming than the first film. 62 other reviews of this movie Movie: Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties Release date: 6/16/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties is actually funnier and more charming than the first film. 62 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lake House, The Release date: 6/16/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Enough of the plot and its paradoxes. What I respond to in the movie is its fundamental romantic ... 78 other reviews of this movie Movie: Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, The Release date: 6/16/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...delivers all the races and crashes you could possibly desire, and a little more. 80 other reviews of this movie Movie: Cars Release date: 6/9/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie is great to look at and a lot of fun, but somehow lacks the extra push of the other Pix... 78 other reviews of this movie Movie: Break-Up, The Release date: 6/2/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...watching the movie is like being on a double-date from hell. 157 other reviews of this movie Movie: Break-Up, The Release date: 6/2/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) For the movie to work, we would have to like the couple and want them to succeed. Despite some si... 157 other reviews of this movie Movie: X-Men: The Last Stand Release date: 5/26/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) I liked the action, I liked the absurdity, I liked the incongruous use and misuse of mutant power... 204 other reviews of this movie Movie: Inconvenient Truth, An Release date: 5/24/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...fascinating and relentless. 65 other reviews of this movie Movie: Inconvenient Truth, An Release date: 5/24/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) In 39 years, I have never written these words in a movie review, but here they are: You owe it to... 65 other reviews of this movie Movie: Just My Luck Release date: 5/12/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It's safe, competent and bland. 92 other reviews of this movie Movie: Keeping Up With the Steins Release date: 5/12/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) A fresh and lovable comedy about a dysfunctional Jewish family planning their son's bar mitzvah. 74 other reviews of this movie Movie: Keeping Up With the Steins Release date: 5/12/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...a fresh and lovable comedy... 74 other reviews of this movie Movie: Proposition, The Release date: 5/5/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Have you read Blood Meridian, the novel by Cormac McCarthy? This movie comes close to realizing t... 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: Proposition, The Release date: 5/5/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...a movie you cannot turn away from... 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mission: Impossible III Release date: 5/5/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) I didn't expect a coherent story from Mission: Impossible III, and so I was sort of surprised... 159 other reviews of this movie Movie: Water Release date: 4/28/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The best elements of Water involve the young girl and the experiences seen through her eyes.... 78 other reviews of this movie Movie: Water Release date: 4/28/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The film is lovely in the way Satyajit Ray's films are lovely. 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reviews of this movie Movie: Aquamarine Release date: 3/3/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The plot is predictable, the emotions are obvious, and the mermaid reminds me of my friend McHugh... 73 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dave Chappelle's Block Party Release date: 3/3/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Dave Chappelle's Block Party is a fairly disorganized film about a fairly disorganized concert, r... 100 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sorry, Haters Release date: 3/1/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It contains such a gripping performance by Robin Wright Penn that it succeeds, in a way, despite ... 34 other reviews of this movie Movie: Tsotsi Release date: 2/24/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) What a simple and yet profound story this is. 104 other reviews of this movie Movie: Unknown White Male Release date: 2/17/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) [An] intriguing and disturbing film. 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: Eight Below Release date: 2/17/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Remarkable, how in a film where we know with an absolute certainty that all or most of the dogs m... 121 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pink Panther, The Release date: 2/10/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...at every moment in the movie, I was aware that Peter Sellers was Clouseau, and Steve Martin wa... 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: Final Destination 3 Release date: 2/10/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...the drama is reduced to a formula in which ominous events accumulate while the teenagers remai... 103 other reviews of this movie Movie: Final Destination 3 Release date: 2/10/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The problem with FD3 is since it is clear to everyone who must die and in what order, the drama i... 103 other reviews of this movie Movie: Firewall Release date: 2/10/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Firewall is an ingenious attempt to update an old plot with new technology, and it is made with c... 128 other reviews of this movie Movie: Imagine Me & You Release date: 1/27/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Most of the running time is devoted to sitcom devices involving family members, friends, double m... 89 other reviews of this movie Movie: Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story Release date: 1/27/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...a film about the making of a film based on a novel about the writing of a novel. 93 other reviews of this movie Movie: Why we Fight Release date: 1/20/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...it is a skillful assembly of its materials, but as a documentary it's less than compelling. 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Tristan & Isolde Release date: 1/13/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...a lean and effective action romance. 40 other reviews of this movie Movie: Glory Road Release date: 1/13/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Where it succeeds is as the story of a chapter in history, the story of how one coach at one scho... 126 other reviews of this movie Movie: Glory Road Release date: 1/13/2006 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...the movie is not really about underdogs and winning the big game. 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They simply prefer a gentler pace. Wh... 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: Isn't This a Time! 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I don't know where the line is, but it's way north of ... 88 other reviews of this movie Movie: Munich Release date: 12/23/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...an act of courage and conscience. 163 other reviews of this movie Movie: White Countess, The Release date: 12/21/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Fiennes and Richardson make this film work with the quiet strangeness of their performances... 49 other reviews of this movie Movie: Producers, The Release date: 12/16/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The new movie is a success, that I know. How much of a success, I cannot be sure. 122 other reviews of this movie Movie: Producers, The Release date: 12/16/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The new movie is a success, that I know. How much of a success, I cannot be sure. Someone who has... 122 other reviews of this movie Movie: Family Stone, The Release date: 12/16/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The Family Stone sorts out its characters admirably, depends on typecasting to help establish its... 123 other reviews of this movie Movie: Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The Release date: 12/14/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada tells the kind of story that John Huston or Sam Peckinpah... 104 other reviews of this movie Movie: King Kong Release date: 12/14/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...a magnificent entertainment. 203 other reviews of this movie Movie: Brokeback Mountain Release date: 12/9/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The filmmakers have focused so intently and with such feeling on Jack and Ennis that the movie is... 146 other reviews of this movie Movie: Memoirs of a Geisha Release date: 12/9/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) I suspect that the more you know about Japan and movies, the less you will enjoy Memoirs of a Gei... 127 other reviews of this movie Movie: First Descent Release date: 12/2/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...boring, repetitive and maddening about a subject you'd think would be fairly interesting: snow... 52 other reviews of this movie Movie: First Descent Release date: 12/2/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) First Descent is boring, repetitive and maddening about a subject you'd think would be fairly int... 52 other reviews of this movie Movie: 39 Pounds of Love Release date: 11/23/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...an undeveloped film. 28 other reviews of this movie Movie: 39 Pounds of Love Release date: 11/23/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) None of this is intended to detract from the courage and will of Ami Ankilewitz. 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Lovecraft and S... 49 other reviews of this movie Movie: Paradise Now Release date: 10/28/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Certainly what Said says will not come as a surprise to any Israeli. It's simply that they disagr... 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Winter Passing Release date: 10/28/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) This is the kind of movie routinely dismissed as too slow and quiet by those who don't know it is... 46 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang Release date: 10/21/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...did I need to see it twice? Not really. Do you need to see it once? Not exactly. 61 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shopgirl Release date: 10/21/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) A tender and perceptive film. 122 other reviews of this movie Movie: Doom Release date: 10/21/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Doom is like some kid came over and is using your computer and won't let you play. 104 other reviews of this movie Movie: Elizabethtown Release date: 10/14/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) In its trimmed version, Elizabethtown is nowhere near one of Crowe's great films (like Almost Fam... 140 other reviews of this movie Movie: Elizabethtown Release date: 10/14/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...sweet and good-hearted... 140 other reviews of this movie Movie: Where the Truth Lies Release date: 10/14/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Another director might handle the showbiz and the murder and intrigue with dispatch, but Egoyan t... 76 other reviews of this movie Movie: In Her Shoes Release date: 10/7/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) In Her Shoes starts out with the materials of an ordinary movie and becomes a rather special ... 90 other reviews of this movie Movie: In Her Shoes Release date: 10/7/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) In Her Shoes starts out with the materials of an ordinary movie and becomes a rather special one. 90 other reviews of this movie Movie: Two for the Money Release date: 10/7/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) You can see Al Pacino doing something he's done a lot lately: Having a terrific time being an act... 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Two for the Money Release date: 10/7/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Two for the Money is not about the mechanics of this business, but about its emotions. 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Greatest Game Ever Played, The Release date: 9/30/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) I am not a golf fan but found The Greatest Game Ever Played absorbing all the same... 54 other reviews of this movie Movie: Oliver Twist Release date: 9/30/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Polanski's film is visually exact and detailed without being too picturesque. 12 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dirty Love Release date: 9/23/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Here is a film so pitiful, it doesn't rise to the level of badness. It is hopelessly incompetent. 25 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dirty Love Release date: 9/23/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Here is a film so pitiful, it doesn't rise to the level of badness. 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Yes. The mov... 130 other reviews of this movie Movie: Thumbsucker Release date: 9/16/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) I have focused on Justin, but really the movie is equally about the adult characters, who all see... 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Separate Lies Release date: 9/16/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Separate Lies is only seemingly about the portioning of blame. 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After the chills and thrill... 78 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pretty Persuasion Release date: 8/12/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...it isn't very satisfying, because the serious content keeps breaking through the soggy plot in... 57 other reviews of this movie Movie: Four Brothers Release date: 8/12/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Four Brothers works as an urban thriller, if not precisely as a model of logic. 116 other reviews of this movie Movie: Four Brothers Release date: 8/12/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) [Four Brothers] connects with underlying moral currents in the way Westerns used to, back before ... 116 other reviews of this movie Movie: Broken Flowers Release date: 8/5/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) No actor is better than Bill Murray as doing nothing at all, and being fascinating while not doin... 125 other reviews of this movie Movie: Broken Flowers Release date: 8/5/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) No actor is better than Bill Murray as doing nothing at all, and being fascinating while not doin... 125 other reviews of this movie Movie: Junebug Release date: 8/5/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Junebug is a great film because it is a true film. 79 other reviews of this movie Movie: Junebug Release date: 8/5/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Junebug is a great film because it is a true film. It humbles other films that claim to be about ... 79 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dukes of Hazzard, The Release date: 8/5/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...a lame-brained, outdated wheeze... 143 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dukes of Hazzard, The Release date: 8/5/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) A lame-brained, outdated wheeze. 143 other reviews of this movie Movie: Must Love Dogs Release date: 7/29/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Must Love Dogs is like a puppy with big brown eyes and a wagging tail who weeps with eagerness to... 123 other reviews of this movie Movie: Devil's Rejects, The Release date: 7/22/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie is not merely disgusting, but has an attitude and a subversive sense of humor. 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: Devil's Rejects, The Release date: 7/22/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) A kind of heedless zeal transforms its horrors. The movie is not merely disgusting, but has an at... 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: Island, The Release date: 7/22/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...while the climax satisfies the requirements of the second half of the story, it leaves a few q... 161 other reviews of this movie Movie: Island, The Release date: 7/22/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The first half of Michael Bay's new film is a spare, creepy science fiction parable, and then it ... 161 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hustle & Flow Release date: 7/22/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Every good actor has a season when he comes into his own, and this is Terrence Howard's time. 22 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bad News Bears, The Release date: 7/22/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) What I liked most about the movie, I think, is that it undermines the self-congratulatory myths w... 114 other reviews of this movie Movie: Warrior, The Release date: 7/15/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) What is best in the film is its depiction of the warrior's epic journey... 26 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wedding Crashers Release date: 7/15/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It assembles the elements for a laugh-out-loud comedy, but it can't make them fly. 69 other reviews of this movie Movie: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Release date: 7/15/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The kids, their adventures and the song and dance numbers are so entertaining that Depp's strange... 204 other reviews of this movie Movie: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Release date: 7/15/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory succeeds in spite of Johnny Depp's performance, which shoul... 204 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dark Water Release date: 7/8/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...we're never quite sure how all the parts of the mystery fit together... 125 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dark Water Release date: 7/8/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Dark Water achieves some, but not all, of what we might hope for. 125 other reviews of this movie Movie: Murderball Release date: 7/8/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) To consider the bleak months and sleepless nights when these men first confronted the reality of ... 103 other reviews of this movie Movie: Saraband Release date: 7/8/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Powerfully, painfully honest. 61 other reviews of this movie Movie: Saraband Release date: 7/8/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...powerfully, painfully honest. 61 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rebound Release date: 7/1/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...fun enough in a sweet but predictable way. 49 other reviews of this movie Movie: War of the Worlds Release date: 6/29/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...a big, clunky movie containing some sensational sights but lacking the zest and joyous energy ... 207 other reviews of this movie Movie: War of the Worlds Release date: 6/29/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) War of the Worlds is a big, clunky movie containing some sensational sights but lacking the zest ... 207 other reviews of this movie Movie: George A. Romero's Land of the Dead Release date: 6/24/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) t's good to see him (Romero) back in the genre he invented... 139 other reviews of this movie Movie: Herbie: Fully Loaded Release date: 6/22/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie is pretty cornball. Little kids would probably enjoy it, but their older brothers and s... 43 other reviews of this movie Movie: Me and You and Everyone We Know Release date: 6/17/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...a film that with quiet confidence creates a fragile magic. 76 other reviews of this movie Movie: My Summer of Love Release date: 6/17/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) I'm not sure if the movie has a point. I'm not sure it needs one. 43 other reviews of this movie Movie: Perfect Man, The Release date: 6/17/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The Perfect Man takes its idiotic plot and uses it as the excuse for scenes of awesome stupid... 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Batman Begins Release date: 6/15/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie works dramatically in addition to being an entertainment. 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: High Tension Release date: 6/10/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) I had forgotten how much I hate dubbing, especially when it's done as badly as in High Tension 46 other reviews of this movie Movie: Honeymooners, The Release date: 6/10/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) A surprise and a delight, a movie that escapes the fate of weary TV retreads and creates characte... 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Honeymooners, The Release date: 6/10/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...a surprise and a delight... 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Howl's Moving Castle Release date: 6/10/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...while it has the Miyazaki visual wonderment, it's a disappointment, compared to his recent wor... 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rock School Release date: 6/3/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Green is not an angry jerk so much as a guy playing an angry jerk because he loves rock music and... 69 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rock School Release date: 6/3/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Paul Green is a great teacher. We have this on the authority of Paul Green. 69 other reviews of this movie Movie: Cinderella Man Release date: 6/3/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Here is a movie where a good man prevails in a world where every day is an invitation to despair.... 171 other reviews of this movie Movie: Apres Vous Release date: 6/3/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Apres Vous is intended as a farce, but lacks farcical insanity and settles for being a sitcom... 63 other reviews of this movie Movie: Apres Vous Release date: 6/3/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Lacks farcical insanity and settles for being a sitcom, not a very good one. 63 other reviews of this movie Movie: Longest Yard, The Release date: 5/27/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The Longest Yard more or less achieves what most of the people attending it will expect. 129 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dominion: A Prequel to the Exorcist Release date: 5/20/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ... does something risky and daring in this time of jaded horror movies: It takes evil seriously. 15 other reviews of this movie Movie: Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith Release date: 5/19/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...a return to the classic space opera style that launched the series. 250 other reviews of this movie Movie: Layer Cake Release date: 5/13/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie was directed by Matthew Vaughn, who produced Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels an... 56 other reviews of this movie Movie: Monster-in-Law Release date: 5/13/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Monster-in-Law fails the Gene Siskel Test: 'Is this film more interesting than a documentary of t... 140 other reviews of this movie Movie: Monster-in-Law Release date: 5/13/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) I hated it above all because it wasted an opportunity. 140 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kings and Queen Release date: 5/13/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie...begins as such a straightforward portrait of ordinary life that it's unsettling to fi... 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kings and Queen Release date: 5/13/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie, directed by Arnaud Desplechin and written by him with Roger Bohbot, begins as such a s... 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: Crash Release date: 5/6/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...a movie of intense fascination... 73 other reviews of this movie Movie: House of Wax Release date: 5/6/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) House of Wax is not a good movie but it is an efficient one... 138 other reviews of this movie Movie: House of Wax Release date: 5/6/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) House of Wax is not a good movie but it is an efficient one, and will deliver most of what anyone... 138 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy, The Release date: 4/29/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) To me it got old fairly quickly. 160 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy, The Release date: 4/29/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Like The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, but with much less visual charm, it is a conceit with li... 160 other reviews of this movie Movie: XXX: State of the Union Release date: 4/29/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Did I enjoy this movie? Only in a dumb mindless way. It has whatever made the original XXX entert... 119 other reviews of this movie Movie: XXX: State of the Union Release date: 4/29/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Did I enjoy this movie? Only in a dumb mindless way. It has whatever made the original XXX en... 119 other reviews of this movie Movie: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Release date: 4/22/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) This is not a political documentary. It is a crime story. No matter what your politics, Enron: Th... 97 other reviews of this movie Movie: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Release date: 4/22/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) No matter what your politics, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room will make you mad. 97 other reviews of this movie Movie: Interpreter, The Release date: 4/22/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) What I admire most about the film is the way it enters the terms of this world -- of internationa... 79 other reviews of this movie Movie: Amityville Horror, The Release date: 4/15/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The problem with The Amityville Horror is that, in a very real sense, there's nothing there. 127 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kung Fu Hustle Release date: 4/8/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) When I saw it at Sundance, I wrote that it was 'like Jackie Chan and Buster Keaton meet Quentin T... 139 other reviews of this movie Movie: Winter Solstice Release date: 4/8/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Oh, what a sad movie this is: Sad not with the details of tragedy, but with the details of life t... 71 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sin City Release date: 4/1/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) This isn't an adaptation of a comic book, it's like a comic book brought to life and pumped with ... 204 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sin City Release date: 4/1/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It's a visualization of the pulp noir imagination, uncompromising and extreme. Yes, and brilliant... 204 other reviews of this movie Movie: Look At Me Release date: 4/1/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The thing about a movie like this is, the characters may be French, but they're more like people ... 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dust to Glory Release date: 4/1/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) There is a kind of madness involved in a race like this, and that's apparently its appeal. 59 other reviews of this movie Movie: Beauty Shop Release date: 3/30/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...isn't simply trying to turn up the heat under a Barbershop clone... 86 other reviews of this movie Movie: Old Boy Release date: 3/25/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...a powerful film not because of what it depicts, but because of the depths of the human heart w... 99 other reviews of this movie Movie: Guess Who Release date: 3/25/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...if the movie had spent more time walking that tightrope between the acceptable and the offensi... 130 other reviews of this movie Movie: Guess Who Release date: 3/25/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Guess Who works efficiently on its chosen level. 130 other reviews of this movie Movie: Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous Release date: 3/24/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...there is no good reason to go and actually see it. 66 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ring Two, The Release date: 3/18/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It is like an exercise in cinema mechanics: Images, music, photography and mood conspire to creat... 129 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ring Two, The Release date: 3/18/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The charm of The Ring Two, while limited, is real enough; it is based on the film's ability t... 129 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ice Princess Release date: 3/18/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...I was surprised how entertained I was. 58 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hostage Release date: 3/11/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...an intimate visual style that keeps us claustrophobically close to the action... 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Be Cool Release date: 3/4/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Be Cool becomes a classic species of bore: a self-referential movie with no self to refer to.... 70 other reviews of this movie Movie: Be Cool Release date: 3/4/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) One character after another, one scene after another, one cute line of dialogue after another, re... 70 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dear Frankie Release date: 3/4/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) This sounds, I know, like the plot of a melodramatic tearjerker, but the filmmakers work close to... 85 other reviews of this movie Movie: Jacket, The Release date: 3/4/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...you can sense an impulse toward a better film... 146 other reviews of this movie Movie: Best of Youth (La Meglio gioventu), The (2005) Release date: 3/2/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) I dropped outside of time and was carried along by the narrative flow; when the film was over, I ... 49 other reviews of this movie Movie: Up and Down Release date: 2/25/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Lacks any formulas or solutions, and is content to show us its complicated characters, their tang... 52 other reviews of this movie Movie: Turtles Can Fly Release date: 2/18/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) You assume the movie is a liberal attack on George W. Bush's policies. Not at all. 3 other reviews of this movie Movie: Son of the Mask Release date: 2/18/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) What we basically have here is a license for the filmmakers to do whatever they want to do with t... 87 other reviews of this movie Movie: Son of the Mask Release date: 2/18/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) What we basically have here is a license for the filmmakers to do whatever they want to do with t... 87 other reviews of this movie Movie: Downfall Release date: 2/18/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It is useful to reflect that racism, xenophobia, grandiosity and fear are still with us, and the ... 109 other reviews of this movie Movie: Constantine Release date: 2/18/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Reeves has a deliberately morose energy level in the movie... 180 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hitch Release date: 2/11/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) There is a purpose for a movie like Hitch, and that purpose is to supply a pleasant and undem... 73 other reviews of this movie Movie: Uncle Nino Release date: 2/11/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) This is not my kind of movie, and I found myself feeling mighty restless by the end, or even half... 30 other reviews of this movie Movie: Inside Deep Throat Release date: 2/11/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie uses new and old interviews and newsreel footage to remember a time when porn was brand... 60 other reviews of this movie Movie: Inside Deep Throat Release date: 2/11/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...remembers a time before pornography was boring, and a climate in which non-pornographic films ... 60 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, The Release date: 2/9/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Bittner is calm, intelligent, confiding, wise and well-spoken. 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wedding Date, The Release date: 2/4/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...almost entirely composed of moments when I was shaking my head in disbelief. 109 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rory O'Shea Was Here Release date: 2/4/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Funny and moving, and more entertaining than some of the movies you are considering this weekend. 58 other reviews of this movie Movie: Assault on Precinct 13 Release date: 1/19/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...classic and airtight... 108 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hate Crime Release date: 1/14/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The portrait of the Boyds is painted by Tommy Stovall, the film's writer and director, with such ... 14 other reviews of this movie Movie: Coach Carter Release date: 1/8/2005 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...follows long-established genre patterns... 11 other reviews of this movie Movie: Twilight Samurai, The Release date: 12/31/2004 11:01:45 PM Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The closing third of the film is magnificent in the way it gathers all we have learned about Seib... 45 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lana's Rain Release date: 12/31/2004 11:01:37 PM Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Even as I noted a glitch here and there in the plot, I was aware that the movie itself, and espec... 8 other reviews of this movie Movie: Incident at Loch Ness Release date: 12/31/2004 11:01:34 PM Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Watching the movie is an entertaining exercise in forensic viewing, and the insidious thing is, e... 32 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hotel Rwanda Release date: 12/22/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...riveting... 154 other reviews of this movie Movie: Beyond the Sea Release date: 12/21/2004 11:01:27 PM Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Bobby Darin's life provides a less-than-perfect template for a biopic... 123 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events Release date: 12/17/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) I think this one is a tune-up for the series, a trial run in which they figure out what works and... 109 other reviews of this movie Movie: Spanglish Release date: 12/17/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie is not quite the sitcom the setup seems to suggest; there are some character quirks tha... 115 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sea Inside, The Release date: 12/17/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie invites us to decide if we are pleased or not. I agree with Ramon that, in the last ana... 90 other reviews of this movie Movie: Million Dollar Baby Release date: 12/15/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...a masterpiece, pure and simple, deep and true. 178 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ocean's Twelve Release date: 12/10/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie is all about behavior, dialogue, star power and wiseass in-jokes. I really sort of like... 55 other reviews of this movie Movie: Blade: Trinity Release date: 12/8/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It lacks the sharp narrative line and crisp comic-book clarity of the earlier films... 92 other reviews of this movie Movie: House of Flying Daggers Release date: 12/3/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The film is so good to look at and listen to that, as with some operas, the story is almost besid... 136 other reviews of this movie Movie: Christmas with the Kranks Release date: 11/24/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...a holiday movie of stunning awfulness... 108 other reviews of this movie Movie: National Treasure Release date: 11/19/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...so silly that the Monty Python version could use the same screenplay, line for line. 146 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bad Education Release date: 11/19/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Almodovar wants to intrigue and entertain us, and he certainly does, proving along the way that G... 108 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kinsey Release date: 11/12/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The strength of Kinsey is finally in the clarity it brings to its title character. It is fascinat... 148 other reviews of this movie Movie: Seed of Chucky Release date: 11/12/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Seed of Chucky is actually two movies, one wretched, the other funny. 58 other reviews of this movie Movie: Finding Neverland Release date: 11/12/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) For Depp, Finding Neverland is the latest in an extraordinary series of performances. 137 other reviews of this movie Movie: After the Sunset Release date: 11/12/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) After the Sunset is skillfully made, but it's not necessary. 109 other reviews of this movie Movie: Polar Express, The Release date: 11/10/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) There's a deeper, shivery tone, instead of the mindless jolliness of the usual Christmas movie. 127 other reviews of this movie Movie: Alfie Release date: 11/5/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...it's funny at times and finally sad and sweet. 52 other reviews of this movie Movie: Incredibles, The Release date: 11/5/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The Pixar Studios, which cannot seem to take a wrong step, steps right again with The Incredibles... 85 other reviews of this movie Movie: Saw Release date: 10/29/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) An efficiently made thriller, cheerfully gruesome, and finally not quite worth the ordeal it puts... 125 other reviews of this movie Movie: Undertow Release date: 10/22/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Green has a visual style that is beautiful without being pretty. We never catch him photographing... 87 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sex is Comedy Release date: 10/20/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Sex Is Comedy is not sure what it's really about, or how to get there. 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shall We Dance? Release date: 10/15/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Conventional as it may be, Shall We Dance? offers genuine delights. 118 other reviews of this movie Movie: Team America: World Police Release date: 10/15/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Like a cocky teenager who's had a couple of drinks before the party, [Parker and Stone] don't hav... 58 other reviews of this movie Movie: Being Julia Release date: 10/15/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) I liked the movie in its own way, while it was cheerfully chugging along, but the ending let me d... 78 other reviews of this movie Movie: Final Cut Release date: 10/15/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Robin Williams stands apart from the problems of The Final Cut, just as he stands apart from ... 58 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stage Beauty Release date: 10/8/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It has a poignancy that Shakespeare lacks, because it is about a real dilemma and two people who ... 90 other reviews of this movie Movie: Taxi Release date: 10/8/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) A film that is wall-to-wall idiocy. 88 other reviews of this movie Movie: Raise Your Voice Release date: 10/8/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ... I love gazing upon [Hilary Duff's] smile, although a still photo would achieve the same effec... 26 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shark Tale Release date: 10/1/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...the movie never comes together into a convincing enterprise. 110 other reviews of this movie Movie: Last Shot, The Release date: 9/24/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It's so screwy you feel affection for it. 63 other reviews of this movie Movie: Infernal Affairs Release date: 9/24/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) What makes it special is the inner turmoil caused by living a lie. If everyone you know and every... 38 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dirty Shame, A Release date: 9/24/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Monotonous, repetitive and sometimes wildly wrong in what it hopes is funny. 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mr. 3000 Release date: 9/17/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Bernie Mac gives a funny and kind of touching performance as a man who attains greatness once and... 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wimbledon Release date: 9/17/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) What I mostly liked was the warmth between the two leads. 111 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow Release date: 9/17/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It's like a film that escaped from the imagination directly onto the screen, without having to pa... 165 other reviews of this movie Movie: Criminal Release date: 9/10/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Follows the original fairly closely, and because I already knew the plot secrets, it couldn't wor... 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Cellular Release date: 9/10/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) This is one of the year's best thrillers. 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It gets under your defe... 154 other reviews of this movie Movie: Little Black Book Release date: 8/6/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) We assume this is going to be a routine career-girl comedy, and we're surprised when it moves dee... 83 other reviews of this movie Movie: Garden State Release date: 7/30/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It's smart and unconventional, with a good eye for the perfect detail. 112 other reviews of this movie Movie: She Hate Me Release date: 7/30/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) She Hate Me invites anger and analysis about the stereotypes it appears to celebrate; a film that... 71 other reviews of this movie Movie: Village, The Release date: 7/30/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The Village is a colossal miscalculation, a movie based on a premise that cannot support it, a pr... 158 other reviews of this movie Movie: Intimate Strangers Release date: 7/28/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) We find we cannot take anything for face value in this story. 48 other reviews of this movie Movie: Catwoman Release date: 7/23/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Tired and dated. 120 other reviews of this movie Movie: I, Robot Release date: 7/16/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The plot is simple-minded and disappointing, and the chase and action scenes are pretty much rout... 131 other reviews of this movie Movie: Riding Giants Release date: 7/9/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Before seeing Riding Giants, my ideas about surfing were formed by the Gidget movies, Endless Sum... 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy Release date: 7/9/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) A lot of the time it's very funny. 106 other reviews of this movie Movie: Metallica: Some Kind of Monster Release date: 7/9/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Metallica: Some Kind of Monster doesn't require you to know anything about the band Metallica or ... 90 other reviews of this movie Movie: King Arthur Release date: 7/7/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) That the movie works is because of the considerable production qualities and the charisma of the ... 66 other reviews of this movie Movie: De-Lovely Release date: 7/2/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie contains more music than most musicals, yet is not a concert film because the songs see... 120 other reviews of this movie Movie: Two Brothers Release date: 6/25/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) There is a lot in Two Brothers I admire. Families will not go wrong in attending this film. Some ... 93 other reviews of this movie Movie: Terminal, The Release date: 6/18/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) A sweet and delicate comedy. 154 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story Release date: 6/18/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Globo is owned by Ben Stiller, overacting to the point of apoplexy as White Goodman; his manic pe... 108 other reviews of this movie Movie: Around the World in 80 Days Release date: 6/16/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It's light as a fly, but springs some genuinely funny moments. 101 other reviews of this movie Movie: Napoleon Dynamite Release date: 6/11/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) There is a kind of studied stupidity that sometimes passes as humor, and Jared Hess' Napoleon Dyn... 129 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stepford Wives, The Release date: 6/11/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Rudnick and director Frank Oz don't do anything radical with the original premise ... but they ch... 116 other reviews of this movie Movie: Garfield Release date: 6/11/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) I don't know who had the idea that Bill Murray would be the right actor to do Garfield's voice, b... 59 other reviews of this movie Movie: Story of the Weeping Camel, The Release date: 6/4/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) A joyous movie. 86 other reviews of this movie Movie: Baadasssss! 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What I couldn't buy was the world of the m... 127 other reviews of this movie Movie: Whole Ten Yards, The Release date: 4/9/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) This is one of those movies you look at quizzically: What did they think they were doing? 87 other reviews of this movie Movie: Since Otar Left Release date: 4/9/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Since Otar Left tells a story of conventional melodrama, and makes it extraordinary because of th... 46 other reviews of this movie Movie: Girl Next Door, The Release date: 4/9/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) This is a dishonest, quease-inducing 'comedy' that had me feeling uneasy and then unclean. 120 other reviews of this movie Movie: Johnson Family Vacation Release date: 4/7/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) A routine cross-country comedy that feels exactly like a series of adventures recycled out of eve... 79 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hellboy Release date: 4/2/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Hellboy is one of those rare movies that's not only based on a comic book, but also feels like a ... 145 other reviews of this movie Movie: Home on the Range Release date: 4/2/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It's only 76 minutes long, but although kids will like it, their parents will be sneaking looks a... 90 other reviews of this movie Movie: Jersey Girl Release date: 3/26/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It's the kind of movie Hugh Grant might make, except for the way Smith has with his dialogue, whi... 109 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dogville Release date: 3/26/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Dogville can be defended and even praised on pure ideological grounds, but most moviegoers, even ... 109 other reviews of this movie Movie: Taking Lives Release date: 3/19/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Taking Lives is actually an effective thriller, on its modest but stylish level. 124 other reviews of this movie Movie: Spartan Release date: 3/12/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The particular pleasure of Spartan is to watch the characters gradually define themselves and the... 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Reckoning, The Release date: 3/5/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The Reckoning has just a little too much of the whodunit and the thriller and not enough of the t... 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: Starsky & Hutch Release date: 3/5/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) A surprisingly funny movie. 141 other reviews of this movie Movie: Passion of the Christ, The Release date: 2/25/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) I was moved by the depth of feeling, by the skill of the actors and technicians, by their desire ... 203 other reviews of this movie Movie: Almost Peaceful Release date: 2/14/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Unlike any other film I have seen about the Holocaust. 25 other reviews of this movie Movie: Monsieur Ibrahim Release date: 2/13/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Its best scenes come as the characters are established and get to know one another. 65 other reviews of this movie Movie: Barbershop 2: Back in Business Release date: 2/6/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The first film arrived with freshness and an unexpected zing, but this one seems too content to f... 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dreamers, The Release date: 2/6/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Above all it evokes a time when the movies -- good movies, both classic and newborn -- were at th... 117 other reviews of this movie Movie: Miracle Release date: 2/6/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) We know all the cliches of the modern sports movie, but Miracle sidesteps a lot of them. 55 other reviews of this movie Movie: Big Bounce, The Release date: 1/30/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie doesn't work. It meanders and drifts and riffs. 39 other reviews of this movie Movie: Perfect Score, The Release date: 1/30/2004 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It's too palatable. 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surprised to find a film that takes its s... 93 other reviews of this movie Movie: Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie Release date: 12/21/2003 11:01:27 PM Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The underlying secret of the four comedians is the way they find humor in daily life, and in thei... 11 other reviews of this movie Movie: Calendar Girls Release date: 12/19/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) [A] sweet, good-humored comedy. 96 other reviews of this movie Movie: Girl With a Pearl Earring Release date: 12/12/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) I can think of many ways the film could have gone wrong, but it goes right, because it doesn't co... 133 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stuck on You Release date: 12/12/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie is funny, but also kind-hearted. 116 other reviews of this movie Movie: Love Don't Cost a Thing Release date: 12/12/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago 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Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It grips us, moves us, astonishes us. 132 other reviews of this movie Movie: Barbarian Invasions, The Release date: 11/21/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/1) The Barbarian Invasions is manipulative without apology, and we want it to be. 92 other reviews of this movie Movie: Love Actually Release date: 11/7/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie's only flaw is also a virtue: It's jammed with characters, stories, warmth and laughs, ... 149 other reviews of this movie Movie: Love Actually Release date: 11/7/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie's only flaw is also a virtue: It's jammed with characters, stories, warmth and laughs, ... 149 other reviews of this movie Movie: Anything But Love Release date: 11/7/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Filmed in the colors of newborn Technicolor, plotted as a tribute to the conventions of Hollywood... 31 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shattered Glass Release date: 10/31/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie is smart about journalism because it is smart about offices. 118 other reviews of this movie Movie: Alien Release date: 10/29/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Ridley Scott's 1979 movie is a great original. 64 other reviews of this movie Movie: Beyond Borders Release date: 10/24/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Beyond Borders has good intentions and wants to call attention to the plight of refugees, but wha... 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: Scary Movie 3 Release date: 10/24/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie is filled with famous and semi-famous faces, although only two of them work for their l... 76 other reviews of this movie Movie: Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Release date: 10/17/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) A contemptible film: Vile, ugly and brutal. 120 other reviews of 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Release date: 10/10/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie asks us to consider a race of superior beings who are built a few feet off the ground, ... 72 other reviews of this movie Movie: Flower of Evil, The Release date: 10/10/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) I feel such an affection for Chabrol and his work that I probably can't see The Flower of Evil as... 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: School of Rock Release date: 10/3/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Here is a movie that proves you can make a family film that's alive and well-acted and smart and ... 148 other reviews of this movie Movie: Station Agent, The Release date: 10/3/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Yes, this is a comedy, but it's also sad, and finally it's simply a story about trying to figure ... 113 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wonderland Release date: 10/3/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) True crime procedurals can have a certain fascination, but not when they're jumbled glimpses of w... 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: My Life Without Me Release date: 9/26/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Ann ... would be a cruel egocentric if she weren't so obviously just a fictional pawn. 78 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rundown, The Release date: 9/26/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The jungle locations give the film a texture and beauty that underlines the outsized characters. 109 other reviews of this movie Movie: Anything Else Release date: 9/19/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) At a time when so many American movies keep dialogue at a minimum so they can play better oversea... 49 other reviews of this movie Movie: Secondhand Lions Release date: 9/19/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) A gentle and sweet whimsy. 95 other reviews of this movie Movie: Casa de Los Babys Release date: 9/19/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Sayles sees like a documentarian, showing us the women, listening to their stories, inviting us t... 90 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bubba Ho-Tep Release date: 9/19/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It has the damnedest ingratiating way of making us sit there and grin at its harebrained audacity... 72 other reviews of this movie Movie: Matchstick Men Release date: 9/12/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The screenplay for Matchstick Men is an achievement of Oscar calibre -- so absorbing that wheneve... 116 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lost In Translation Release date: 9/12/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Sweet and sad at the same time it is sardonic and funny. 156 other reviews of this movie Movie: Once Upon a Time in Mexico Release date: 9/12/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) I understood the general outlines of the story, I liked the bold strokes he uses to create the ch... 59 other reviews of this movie Movie: Cabin Fever Release date: 9/12/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie adds up to a few good ideas and a lot of bad ones, wandering around in search of an org... 110 other reviews of this movie Movie: Jeepers Creepers 2 Release date: 8/29/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Jeepers Creepers 2 supplies us with a first-class creature, a fourth-rate story, and dialogue pos... 94 other reviews of this movie Movie: Other Side of the Bed, The Release date: 8/29/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Everyone in The Other Side of the Bed, alas, has the depth of a character in a TV commercial. 28 other reviews of this movie Movie: Battle of Shaker Heights, The Release date: 8/22/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) You get the sense of too much input, too many bright ideas, too many scenes that don't belong in ... 33 other reviews of this movie Movie: Uptown Girls Release date: 8/15/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Murphy's performance has a kind of ineffable mischievous innocence about it. 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: American Splendor Release date: 8/15/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Magnificently audacious movie, in which fact and fiction sometimes coexist in the same frame. 133 other reviews of this movie Movie: Gigli Release date: 8/1/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) I wonder what would happen if you sweated 15 minutes out of this movie. Maybe it would work. The ... 135 other reviews of this movie Movie: Secret Lives of Dentists, The Release date: 8/1/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The Secret Lives of Dentists tries hard to be a good film, but if it had relaxed a little, it mig... 74 other reviews of this movie Movie: Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over Release date: 7/25/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) A flat and dreary disappointment. 116 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life Release date: 7/25/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Uses imagination and exciting locations to give the movie the same kind of pulp adventure feeling... 132 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mondays in the Sun Release date: 7/25/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It is intensely involving at the outset, but it faces an insoluble problem: The story, like the c... 53 other reviews of this movie Movie: Seabiscuit Release date: 7/25/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Seabiscuit will satisfy those who have read the book, and I imagine it will satisfy those like my... 121 other reviews of this movie Movie: Garage Days Release date: 7/18/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie has a lot of affection for these scruffy wannabes, and I liked the fact that they were ... 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dirty Pretty Things Release date: 7/18/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Frears and his writer, Steve Knight, use the power of the thriller and avoid the weaknesses in gi... 49 other reviews of this movie Movie: I Capture the Castle Release date: 7/11/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It would be fun to be a member of the Mortmain family -- maybe the younger brother, who shows eve... 63 other reviews of this movie Movie: Housekeeper, The Release date: 7/11/2003 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The Housekeeper is wise and subtle in the way it presents its older man. 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this movie Movie: Chicago Release date: 12/27/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...big, brassy fun. 176 other reviews of this movie Movie: Chicago Release date: 12/27/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Big, brassy fun. 176 other reviews of this movie Movie: Max Release date: 12/27/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Peculiar and intriguing. 84 other reviews of this movie Movie: Nicholas Nickleby Release date: 12/27/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie is jolly and exciting and brimming with life, and wonderfully well-acted. 87 other reviews of this movie Movie: Nicholas Nickleby Release date: 12/27/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie is jolly and exciting and brimming with life, and wonderfully well-acted. 87 other reviews of this movie Movie: Catch Me If You Can Release date: 12/25/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The story is a good story, 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That is a compliment to Kuras and Miller. 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video it's rather remarkable. 50 other reviews of this movie Movie: Real Women Have Curves Release date: 10/18/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Enormously entertaining for moviegoers of any age. 61 other reviews of this movie Movie: Punch-Drunk Love Release date: 10/11/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (5/2) The film is exhilarating to watch because Sandler, liberated from the constraints of formula, rev... 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: Punch-Drunk Love Release date: 10/11/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (4/3) ...(Adam) Sandler reveals depths and tones we may have suspected but couldn't bring into focus. 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: Below Release date: 10/11/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Below has ambitions to be better than average, but doesn't pull itself together and insist on rea... 53 other reviews of this movie Movie: Safe Conduct Release date: 10/11/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of 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sense of immediate and present reality permeates every s... 78 other reviews of this movie Movie: Just a Kiss Release date: 9/27/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) We have poignancy jostling against farce, thoughtful dialogue elbowed aside by one-liners, and a ... 50 other reviews of this movie Movie: Moonlight Mile Release date: 9/27/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Moonlight Mile gives itself the freedom to feel contradictory things. It is sentimental but feels... 129 other reviews of this movie Movie: Trials of Henry Kissinger, The Release date: 9/25/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Fascinating to watch as a portrait of political celebrity and ego. 46 other reviews of this movie Movie: Invincible Release date: 9/20/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie has the power of a great silent film, unafraid of grand gestures and moral absolutes. 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: 8 Women Release date: 9/20/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Watching 8 Women, you have a silly grin half of the time. 87 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stealing Harvard Release date: 9/13/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) This is as lax and limp a comedy as I've seen in a while, a meander through worn-out material. 95 other reviews of this movie Movie: In Praise of Love Release date: 9/6/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) What strange confusion besets Jean-Luc Godard? He stumbles through the wreckage of this film like... 54 other reviews of this movie Movie: City by the Sea Release date: 9/6/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) In its workmanship it aspires not to be remarkable but to be well made, dependable, moving us bec... 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: feardotcom Release date: 8/30/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The screenplay is a mess, and yet the visuals are so creative this is one of the rare bad films y... 85 other reviews of this movie Movie: Blue Crush Release date: 8/16/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Looking at the posters for Blue Crush, which show Bosworth, Rodriguez and Lake posing with bikini... 63 other reviews of this movie Movie: Secret Ballot Release date: 8/9/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) There has been much puzzlement among critics about what the election symbolizes. I believe the me... 53 other reviews of this movie Movie: XXX Release date: 8/9/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) In its own punk way, XXX is as good as a good Bond movie, and that's saying something. 126 other reviews of this movie Movie: Good Girl, The Release date: 8/7/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Aniston has at last decisively broken with her Friends image in an independent film of satiric fi... 114 other reviews of this movie Movie: Master of Disguise, The Release date: 8/2/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie is a desperate miscalculation. 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But it seemed a shame that the writer and director, Ch... 51 other reviews of this movie Movie: K-19: The Widowmaker Release date: 7/19/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) [Bigelow] is an expert technician who never steps wrong and is skilled at exploiting the personal... 120 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stuart Little 2 Release date: 7/19/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Yes, reader, I enjoyed the movie, in its innocent way. 81 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sex and Lucia Release date: 7/12/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) [Medem] likes to toy with the mind of the audience, and he's good at it. 50 other reviews of this movie Movie: Never Again Release date: 7/12/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Here's a case of two actors who do everything humanly possible to create characters who are sweet... 58 other reviews of this movie Movie: My Wife is an Actress Release date: 7/12/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) If the movie were all comedy, it might work better. But it has an ambition to say something about... 69 other reviews of this movie Movie: Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course, The Release date: 7/12/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) You see a couple of likable people journeying though the outback, encountering dangerous critters... 37 other reviews of this movie Movie: Men in Black II Release date: 7/3/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) 'Men in Black II creates a new threat for the MIB, but recycles the same premise. 153 other reviews of this movie Movie: Songs From the Second Floor Release date: 7/3/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) You may not enjoy it but you will not forget it. 26 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pumpkin Release date: 6/28/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Relentlessly, and sometimes brilliantly, it forces us to decide what we really think, how permiss... 48 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sunshine State Release date: 6/21/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Because we are so familiar with the conventional approach to a story like this, it takes time to ... 71 other reviews of this movie Movie: Cinema Paradiso: The New Version Release date: 6/14/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) I'm happy to have seen it -- not as an alternate version, but as the ultimate exercise in viewing... 20 other reviews of this movie Movie: Emperor's New Clothes, The Release date: 6/14/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) A surprisingly sweet and gentle comedy. 64 other reviews of this movie Movie: Scooby-Doo Release date: 6/14/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) I feel no sympathy with any of the characters, I am unable to judge whether the live action movie... 116 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bourne Identity, The Release date: 6/14/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Doug Liman, the director of Bourne, directs the traffic well, gets a nice wintry look from his lo... 146 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sum of All Fears, The Release date: 5/31/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Director Phil Alden Robinson and his writers, Paul Attanasio and Daniel Pyne, do a spellbinding j... 134 other reviews of this movie Movie: Elling Release date: 5/29/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It is refreshingly undogmatic about its characters. 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: Insomnia Release date: 5/24/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Unlike most remakes, the Nolan Insomnia is not a pale retread, but a re-examination of the materi... 61 other reviews of this movie Movie: Importance of Being Earnest, The Release date: 5/22/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The Importance of Being Earnest, so thick with wit it plays like a reading from Bartlett's Famili... 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: About a Boy Release date: 5/17/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Hugh Grant, who has a good line in charm, has never been more charming than in About a Boy. 107 other reviews of this movie Movie: New Guy, The Release date: 5/10/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It makes little sense, fails as often as it succeeds, and yet is not hateful and is sometimes qui... 68 other reviews of this movie Movie: Warm Water Under a Red Bridge Release date: 5/3/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Seeing it as a Westerner is an enlightening, even liberating, experience. 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: Spider-Man Release date: 5/3/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The origin story is well told, and the characters will not disappoint anyone who values the origi... 157 other reviews of this movie Movie: Salton Sea, The Release date: 4/26/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) I liked it because it was so endlessly, grotesquely, inventive. 38 other reviews of this movie Movie: Jason X Release date: 4/26/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) A low-rent retread of the Alien pictures. 45 other reviews of this movie Movie: Life or Something Like It Release date: 4/26/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) This is an ungainly movie, ill-fitting, with its elbows sticking out where the knees should be. 52 other reviews of this movie Movie: Chelsea Walls Release date: 4/19/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Movies like this do not grab you by the throat. 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Wells story from 1895, with the absurdity int... 115 other reviews of this movie Movie: Monsoon Wedding Release date: 2/22/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) One of those joyous films that leaps over national boundaries and celebrates universal human natu... 43 other reviews of this movie Movie: Slackers Release date: 2/1/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It made me feel unclean, and I'm the guy who liked There's Something About Mary and both American... 92 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mothman Prophecies, The Release date: 1/25/2002 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It's lazy for a movie to avoid solving one problem by trying to distract us with the solution to ... 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Vertical Ray of the Sun, The Release date: 12/31/2001 11:01:47 PM Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The Vertical Ray of Sun is beautiful, languorous, passive -- it plays like background music for i... 27 other reviews of this movie Movie: Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale Release date: 12/31/2001 11:01:36 PM Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The Shapiros wisely focus on the mystery of this man. 36 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Release date: 12/31/2001 11:01:36 PM Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang contains a lot of comedy and invention, but doesn't much benefit from its cl... 55 other reviews of this movie Movie: Focus Release date: 12/31/2001 11:01:31 PM Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) A deliberate attempt to look and feel like a 1940s social problems picture, right down to the tex... 58 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dark Blue World, The Release date: 12/28/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Recycles some of the aerial combat footage shot for Battle of Britain (1969) and indeed some of t... 43 other reviews of this movie Movie: Black Hawk Down Release date: 12/28/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Films like this are more useful than gung-ho capers like Behind Enemy Lines. They help audiences ... 70 other reviews of this movie Movie: Charlotte Gray Release date: 12/28/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) This is a movie that looks great, is well-acted, and tells a story that you can't believe for a m... 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: Monster's Ball Release date: 12/26/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) ...has the complexity of great fiction, and requires our empathy as we interpret the decisions th... 38 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ali Release date: 12/25/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It lacks much of the flash, fire and humor of Muhammad Ali and is shot more in the tone of a eulo... 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: Joe Somebody Release date: 12/21/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) By the end of Joe Somebody, we are faced with the dismal prospect of being denied a climax, which... 70 other reviews of this movie Movie: A Beautiful Mind Release date: 12/21/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie fascinated me about the life of this man. 151 other reviews of this movie Movie: Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius Release date: 12/21/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It doesn't have the little in-jokes that make Shrek and Monsters, Inc. fun for grown-ups. But adu... 36 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lantana Release date: 12/14/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) What's surprising is how easy it is to follow the plot, and how the coincidences don't get in the... 72 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kandahar Release date: 12/14/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Kandahar does not provide deeply drawn characters, memorable dialogue or an exciting climax. Its ... 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Not Another Teen Movie Release date: 12/14/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It was not good to see yet still more wretched excess in the jokes about characters being sprayed... 71 other reviews of this movie Movie: Royal Tenenbaums, The Release date: 12/14/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It's proof that Anderson and his writing partner, the actor Owen Wilson, have a gift of cockeyed ... 122 other reviews of this movie Movie: No Man's Land Release date: 12/7/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) A bleakly funny parable that could be titled Between Enemy Lines. 38 other reviews of this movie Movie: Behind Enemy Lines Release date: 11/30/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Its hero is so reckless and its villains so incompetent that it's a showdown between a man beggin... 111 other reviews of this movie Movie: Affair of the Necklace, The Release date: 11/30/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The storytelling is hopelessly compromised by the movie's decision to sympathize with Jeanne. 37 other reviews of this movie Movie: Spy Game Release date: 11/21/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (6/1) It's clever and shows great control of craft, but it doesn't care, and so it's hard for us to car... 93 other reviews of this movie Movie: Devil's Backbone, The Release date: 11/21/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The Devil's Backbone has been compared to The Others, and has the same ambition and intelligence,... 40 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sidewalks of New York Release date: 11/21/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Finds the right note, of seeking optimism among the shoals of hope. 39 other reviews of this movie Movie: Monsters, Inc. Release date: 11/2/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Monsters, Inc. is cheerful, high-energy fun, and like the other Pixar movies, has a running suppl... 117 other reviews of this movie Movie: Life As A House Release date: 10/26/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Has much heart and not enough brain. 41 other reviews of this movie Movie: K-Pax Release date: 10/26/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) I admired how the movie tantalized us with possibilities... 92 other reviews of this movie Movie: From Hell Release date: 10/19/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie feels dark, clammy and exhilarating -- it's like belonging to a secret club where you c... 114 other reviews of this movie Movie: Riding in Cars With Boys Release date: 10/19/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) A film like this is refreshing and startling in the way it cuts loose from formula and shows us c... 83 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mulholland Dr. Release date: 10/12/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Works because Lynch is absolutely uncompromising. 118 other reviews of this movie Movie: Training Day Release date: 10/5/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) For its kinetic energy and acting zeal, I enjoyed the movie. I like it when actors go for broke. 105 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hardball Release date: 9/14/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) We're always aware of the formula--and in a picture based on real life, we shouldn't be. 63 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dinner Rush Release date: 9/14/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) There are enough plots here to challenge a Robert Altman, specialist in interlocking stories, but... 29 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rock Star Release date: 9/7/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) By the end of the film I conceded, yes, there are good performances and the period is well captur... 93 other reviews of this movie Movie: Iron Ladies, The Release date: 9/7/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) That the movie is fun is undeniable. That it is bad is inarguable. 24 other reviews of this movie Movie: O Release date: 8/31/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) A good film for most of the way, and then a powerful film at the end. 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Tortilla Soup Release date: 8/24/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Although six writers worked on the adaptation, for once too many cooks didn't spoil the broth. 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: Captain Corelli's Mandolin Release date: 8/17/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) What we get is kind of a condensed version of some of the sights and sounds of the novel, without... 78 other reviews of this movie Movie: Osmosis Jones Release date: 8/10/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Likely to entertain kids, who seem to like jokes about anatomical plumbing. For adults, there is ... 68 other reviews of this movie Movie: American Pie 2 Release date: 8/10/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) I had a good time at American Pie 2, maybe because the characters are broad comic types, well pla... 46 other reviews of this movie Movie: Others, The Release date: 8/10/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) In drawing out his effects, Amenabar is a little too confident that style can substitute for subs... 65 other reviews of this movie Movie: Others, The Release date: 8/10/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (4/3) ...a little too confident that style can substitute for substance. 65 other reviews of this movie Movie: Thomas in Love Release date: 8/3/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It duplicates Thomas' miserable world so well we want to escape it as urgently as Thomas does. 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: Original Sin Release date: 8/3/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It's an exuberant example of what it is -- a bodice-ripping murder 'meller' -- and at that it get... 62 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bread and Tulips Release date: 7/27/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Maglietta is the secret of this film's romantic charm, because we like her so much. 45 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ghost World Release date: 7/20/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) I wanted to hug this movie. It takes such a risky journey and never steps wrong. 51 other reviews of this movie Movie: Legally Blonde Release date: 7/13/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Witherspoon effortlessly animated this material with sunshine and quick wit. 100 other reviews of this movie Movie: Final Fantasy: the Spirits Within Release date: 7/11/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) A technical milestone. 99 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kiss of the Dragon Release date: 7/6/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) I like the movie on a simple physical level. There is no deeper meaning and no higher skill invol... 74 other reviews of this movie Movie: Crimson Rivers, The Release date: 6/29/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) A breathtaking exercise in the macabre. 45 other reviews of this movie Movie: A.I. 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No, probably not. But wh... 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mummy Returns, The Release date: 5/4/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The mistake of The Mummy Returns is to abandon the characters, and to use the plot only as a clot... 66 other reviews of this movie Movie: Under the Sand Release date: 5/4/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Both of these Ozon films can do what few directors have mastered. They can make us feel exactly w... 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: Driven Release date: 4/27/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) A movie by, for and about the Attention Deficit Disordered. 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: Golden Bowl, The Release date: 4/27/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It kept me at arm's length, but that is where I am supposed to be; the characters are after all a... 37 other reviews of this movie Movie: Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles Release date: 4/20/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) I've seen audits that were more thrilling. 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: Luzhin Defence, The Release date: 4/20/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The film is elegiac and sad, beautifully mounted, but not as compelling as it should be. 50 other reviews of this movie Movie: Joe Dirt Release date: 4/11/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Joe Dirt doesn't waste any time letting you know where it stands. 58 other reviews of this movie Movie: Just Visiting Release date: 4/6/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) One of those rare American remakes of a French film that preserves the flavor of the original and... 32 other reviews of this movie Movie: Along Came A Spider Release date: 4/6/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Man, are you gonna be talking when you come out of this movie! Saying things like 'but why...' an... 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Day I Became A Woman, The Release date: 4/6/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Still more evidence of how healthy and alive the Iranian cinema is, even in a society we think of... 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shadow Magic Release date: 4/6/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Why not trust the subject matter instead of shaping it all to fit a formula? 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: Amores Perros Release date: 3/30/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The work of a born filmmaker. 69 other reviews of this movie Movie: Spy Kids Release date: 3/30/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) A treasure. 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dish, The Release date: 3/14/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) A smiling human comedy. 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: Company Man Release date: 3/9/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) As bad movies go, Company Man falls less in the category of Affront to the Audience and more in t... 36 other reviews of this movie Movie: Gleaners and I, The Release date: 3/7/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) And in what appears to be a documentary [Varda] conceals a tender meditation about her own life, ... 21 other reviews of this movie Movie: Monkeybone Release date: 2/23/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie labors hard, the special effects are admirable, no expense has been spared, and yet the... 69 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sweet November Release date: 2/16/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) I don't know who I disliked more intensely -- Nelson, the abrupt, insulting ad man played by Kean... 50 other reviews of this movie Movie: Recess: School's Out Release date: 2/16/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Although it lacks the zany exuberance of the recent Rugrats in Paris, it's fast-footed and fun. 32 other reviews of this movie Movie: Taste of Others, The Release date: 2/9/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) One of the delights of The Taste of Others is that it is so smart and wears its intelligence ligh... 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: Signs & Wonders Release date: 2/9/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) As a drama about the ravages of mental illness, the movie works. 16 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sugar & Spice Release date: 1/26/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It's alive and risky and saucy. 53 other reviews of this movie Movie: Our Lady of the Assassins Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The film's title is appropriate. A desperate Catholicism flavors the doomed city. 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: Series 7 Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie has one joke and tells it too often, for too long. 56 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hedwig and the Angry Inch Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) Strange, how the movie seems to be loud, flashy and superficial, and yet gives a deeper dimension... 59 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dogtown and Z-Boys Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The film has an infectious enthusiasm and we're touched by the film's conviction that all life ce... 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: Caveman's Valentine, The Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It's remarkable the way Jackson begins with the kind of character we'd avert our eyes from, and m... 52 other reviews of this movie Movie: Jump Tomorrow Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It's all sweetness and understated charm, and after awhile even George begins to grow on us. 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: Beautiful Creatures Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) A movie about two of the most loathsome women in recent cinema, and the movie thinks the male cha... 39 other reviews of this movie Movie: Together Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) It may be that Together only wants to remember a time. That it does with gentle, observant humor. 52 other reviews of this movie Movie: Last Resort Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) You walk out of the theater curiously touched. 51 other reviews of this movie Movie: In the Bedroom Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) There are scenes as true as movies can make them. 108 other reviews of this movie Movie: Snatch Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times: (7/0) The movie is not boring, but it doesn't build and it doesn't arrive anywhere. 40 other reviews of this movie Movie: L.I.E. 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Leave logic at the door. 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