Writing for the Chicago Reader, Jonathan Rosenbaum called the film " generic " and " standard issue ", stating that the audience shouldn't " expect to remember it ten minutes later ".

Jonathan Rosenbaum, 2002.

However, Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote in the Chicago Reader, " To be sure, The Big Lebowski is packed with show-offy filmmaking and as a result is pretty entertaining.

Among the film's strongest detractors was Jonathan Rosenbaum, who described it as " creepy " and claimed " this characterless world of Manhattan-Venice-Paris, where love consists only of self-validation, and political convictions of any kind are attributable to either hypocrisy or a brain condition, the me-first nihilism of Allen's frightened worldview is finally given full exposure, and it's a grisly thing to behold.

Jonathan Rosenbaum from the Chicago Reader observed that " Raimi tries to do a Sergio Leone, and though The Quick and the Dead is highly enjoyable in spots, it doesn't come across as very convincing.

: Film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum refers to a makeshift 1960s and 1970s genre called the acid Western, associated with Dennis Hopper, Jim McBride, and Rudy Wurlitzer, as well as films like Monte Hellman's The Shooting, Alejandro Jodorowsky's bizarre experimental film El Topo ( The Mole ), and Robert Downey Sr .' s Greaser's Palace.

On March 30, 2007, it opened in select theaters in the United States and Canada and was released on DVD on November 13, 2007 as part of a deluxe box set with a director's cut of Burnett's sophomore feature My Brother's Wedding and three Burnett shorts: Several Friends ( a 1969 aesthetic precursor to Killer of Sheep ), The Horse ( an " allegory of the South " in Burnett's words ), and When It Rains ( praised as one of the greatest short films of all time by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum ).

Critics such as Jonathan Rosenbaum and Charles Taylor, as well as filmmaker Jacques Rivette, have gone on the record defending Showgirls as a serious satire.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, in his review for the Chicago Reader, praised Holly Hunter's performance as " something of a revelation: her short, feisty, socially gauche, aggressive-compulsive character may be the most intricately layered portrait of a career woman that contemporary Hollywood has given us ".

Chicago Reader film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote that what director James Brooks " Manages to do with ( the characters ) as they struggle mightily to connect with one another is funny, painful, beautiful, and basically truthful-a triumph for everyone involved.

Jonathan Rosenbaum refers to the film as " the best expression of Spielberg's benign, dreamy-eyed vision.

However, Jonathan Rosenbaum gave the film a mixed review in the Chicago Reader.

Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader wrote, " Undeniably provocative and reasonably entertaining, The Truman Show is one of those high-concept movies whose concept is both clever and dumb.

Of Tati, Lynch would add in a conversation with Jonathan Rosenbaum, " You know, I feel like in a way he's a kindred soul.

Chicago Reader critic Jonathan Rosenbaum surmised that the media was eager to torpedo Ishtar in retaliation for instances of Beatty's perceived " high-handed way with members of the press ".

Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader rated it a " masterpiece ," giving it the paper's highest rating of four stars.

Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader labelled it Brooks ' best film, stating " what Brooks manages to do with characters as they struggle mightily to connect with one another is funny, painful, beautiful, and basically truthful — a triumph for everyone involved.

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One of the best foreign films, heck, one of the best films I have seen ", while Jonathan Rosenbaum of The Chicago Reader stated, " About as entertaining as a no-brainer can be -- a lot more fun, for my money, than a cornball theme-park ride like " Speed ," and every bit as fast moving.

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" The Chicago Reader < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Jonathan Rosenbaum compared Night Shift to the subsequent comedy film Risky Business ( which also dealt with the theme of prostitution ), noting that Night Shift isn't "... as snappily directed or as caustically conceived, ... but it's arguably just as sexy and almost as funny.

" Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader remarked, " There's almost no plot here and even less character — just a lot of pretexts for S & M imagery, Catholic decor, gobs of gore, and the usual designer schizophrenia.

Chicago Reader critic Jonathan Rosenbaum stated, " This is a powerful, convincing, and terrifying look at teenage crime in contemporary Watts.

Jonathan and Ben were not on the lists of the dead or on that of the missing.

Returning to the log-house he found some favorite lines from Jonathan Swift on his lips:

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729.

After this success, director Sydney Pollack hired Cuarón to direct an episode of Fallen Angels, a series of neo-noir stories produced for the Showtime premium cable network in 1993 ; other directors who worked on the series included Steven Soderbergh, Jonathan Kaplan, Peter Bogdanovich, and Tom Hanks.

In his 1972 book American Criminal Justice, Jonathan D. Caplan comments on the Supreme Court decision, noting, " The Alford decision recognizes the plea-bargaining system, acknowledging that a man may maintain his innocence but still plead guilty in order to minimize his potential loss.

There was praise for Diana Rigg's performance, and orchestrator Jonathan Tunick received an Oscar for his work on the score.

David is heartbroken on discovering the death of Jonathan, tearing his clothes apart.

At age 11, in 1965, Mumy began working with Jonathan Harris on Lost in Space, and the two became close friends, both on and off set.

According to a 2010 interview on Blog Talk Radios, Lessons Learned, Rick Tocquigny, when asked if Mumy was a Jonathan Harris fan, before Mumy's first meeting with Harris on Lost in Space, he said at age 5, he was too young to watch his mentor's show The Third Man which was probably late at night, but was old enough to watch The Bill Dana Show ( which also starred Harris's real-life best friend Don Adams ).

The Widgery Tribunal, held in the immediate aftermath of the event, largely cleared the soldiers and British authorities of blame — Widgery described the soldiers ' shooting as " bordering on the reckless "— but was criticised as a " whitewash ", including by Jonathan Powell.

In 1986, computer programmer Matt Black and ex-art teacher Jonathan More were part-time DJs on the rare groove scene.

The largest military action in the Maritimes during the revolutionary war was the attack on Fort Cumberland ( the renamed Fort Beausejour ) in 1776 by a force of American sympathizers led by Jonathan Eddy.

based on Jor-El that was sent by the original to guide him, Jonathan occasionally having trouble relating to Clark while Jor-El's lack of his template's emotions causes him to treat Clark too harshly at times.

The city was incorporated as a result of a resolution by Iowa Representative Jonathan W. Parker by special charter in the Iowa Territory on January 25, 1839.

A. Allen, Frank Chapman, and Jonathan Dwight, the society concentrated on taxonomy and later became a clearing house for bird banding and sight records.

One theory on the formation of the Essenes suggested the movement was founded by a Jewish high priest, dubbed by the Essenes the Teacher of Righteousness, whose office had been usurped by Jonathan ( of priestly but not Zadokite lineage ), labeled the " man of lies " or " false priest ".

In the American colonies the First Great Awakening of the 1740s greatly expanded the movement ; it was based on revivals led by Congregationalist Jonathan Edwards and Methodist George Whitefield.

In September 2002, Omega World, a d20 System mini-game based on Gamma World and written by Jonathan Tweet, was published in Dungeon 94 / Polyhedron 153.

" G. K. Chesterton compared it to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels: " Gilbert pursued and persecuted the evils of modern England till they had literally not a leg to stand on, exactly as Swift did ...

Jonathan Silk has argued that the term " Hinayana " was used to refer to whomever one wanted to criticize on any given occasion, and did not refer to any definite grouping of Buddhists.

Since 1993, the programmes that have been mainstays on BBC Scotland on Hogmanay have been Hogmanay Live and Jonathan Watson's football-themed sketch comedy show, Only an Excuse?