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Kurt Jacobsen

Kurt Jacobsen's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Mountains of the Moon (1990) 67% 1/4 EDIT “Rafelson concocts mediocre entertainment at a high cost. ” – Chicago Reader May 12, 2022 Full Review Born on the Fourth of July (1989) 84% EDIT “Stone niftily strings together a batch of cuttingly effective dramatic sequences.” – Chicago Reader May 12, 2022 Full Review Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1986) 100% EDIT “The film pulls provocative insights and ironies out of each adventure as artfully as an accomplished pickpocket works a crowd...” – Chicago Reader May 12, 2022 Full Review A Hungarian Fairy Tale (1987) 3/4 EDIT “In A Hungarian Fairy Tale Gazdag creates a memorable world that whimsically deals out names and death and affection and then challenges it at every level, literal and symbolic. A strange and rewarding brew for the adventurous.” – Chicago Reader May 11, 2022 Full Review For Queen and Country (1988) 29% 2/4 EDIT “For Queen & Country ends with a gratuitous and silly bang, which may be a slight improvement on the (sometimes charming) whimpers with which British films customarily end. Then again, maybe not.” – Chicago Reader May 11, 2022 Full Review Dead Poets Society (1989) 85% 1/4 EDIT “We never are privy to Keatings’s personal life, nor do we quite grasp why such a talented individual is devoted to pedagogy.” – Chicago Reader May 11, 2022 Full Review 36 Fillette (1988) 88% 3/4 EDIT “A must-see...” – Chicago Reader May 11, 2022 Full Review Cry Freedom (1987) 73% 2/4 EDIT “Nonetheless, this more than slightly askew epic merits a look, and one hopes that other films, which match some of the superb plays and novels by South African authors, will be encouraged by Cry Freedom’s box office.” – Chicago Reader May 10, 2022 Full Review Red Kiss (1985) 4/4 EDIT “Red Kiss is a tender, tough, and touching achievement, flawlessly executed, and a superb cinematic delving into the murky human depths...” – Chicago Reader May 10, 2022 Full Review Kangaroo (1986) 1/4 EDIT “Kangaroo pays Lawrence perhaps the meanest insult by portraying him not as the “priest of love” but, in keeping with the mentality of the Reagan-Thatcher era, as the patron saint of conceit.” – Chicago Reader May 9, 2022 Full Review Working Girls (1986) 92% 3/4 EDIT “By centering on her, Borden is able to confront the just-another-business plea head-on. In one way, it is just another business, but as Borden goes on to show, that's not all it is.” – Chicago Reader May 9, 2022 Full Review Wild Thing (1987) 33% 1/4 EDIT “Wild Thing is a terribly sensitive and compassionate chap, just the sort who might eventually repel Jane — if she turned out to be a textbook case of “women who love too much.” Yeah, that would add suspense.” – Chicago Reader May 9, 2022 Full Review Waiting for the Moon (1987) 50% 1/4 EDIT “Stein and Toklas, this ain’t. And whoever the players are, they aren’t very engaging.” – Chicago Reader May 9, 2022 Full Review David Lynch: The Art Life (2016) 90% EDIT “Lynch's art is filled with frightening images, but there's nothing scarier in his work than a father's wrath, whether it's expressed in rape, murder, or just the silent shake of a head.” – Chicago Reader May 4, 2017 Full Review Pelle the Conqueror (1987) 84% 1/4 EDIT “Beneath the transparent, by-the-numbers schema there are potent elements at play in this work, but unfortunately they go unexplored.” – Chicago Reader Feb 27, 2017 Full Review
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