Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

From 1987 until early 2008, Jonathan Rosenbaum was the principal film critic at the Chicago Reader. His books include The Unquiet American, Discovering Orson Welles, Essential Cinema, Movie Wars, Abbas Kiarostami (with Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa), Movie Mutations (coedited with Adrian Martin), Movie Wars, Dead Man, Movies as Politics, Greed, Film: The Front Line 1983, Midnight Movies (with J. Hoberman), Placing Movies, and Moving Places.

Links: Jonathan's Website

From Jonathan's website

Best of the Decade Critics Survey 2000s »

Best of the Decade »

1) A.I.: Artificial Intelligence

Annual Critics Survey 2009 »

Best Film »

1) 24 City

2) The Beaches of Agnes

3) The Sun

4) Of Time and the City

5) Me and Orson Welles

6) The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

7) Merde (from Tokyo!)

8) The Limits of Control

9) The Last Station

10) Bright Star

Best Lead Performance »

1) Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart

2) Christian McKay, Me and Orson Welles

3) Agnes Varda, The Beaches of Agnes

4) Paul Giamatti, Cold Souls

5) Christopher Plummer, The Last Station

Best Supporting Performance »

1) Tom Waits, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

Best Director »

1) Jia Zhangke, 24 City

Best Documentary »

1) 24 City

Best Screenplay »

1) Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker

Best First Feature »

1) Peter Thompson, Lowlands

Best Undistributed Film »

1) Lowlands

2) Helsinki Forever

3) Shirin

4) En Attendant Godard

Films

24 City A

35 Shots of Rum B+

A Serious Man B+

A Woman in Berlin C

Avatar D+

Bright Star B+

Capitalism: A Love Story C

Cold Souls B+

Easy Virtue C-

Fantastic Mr. Fox B

Invictus B-

Lorna’s Silence B+

Me and Orson Welles A-

Nine B

Of Time and the City A

Shutter Island B-

Summer Hours B+

Tetro B

The Art of the Steal A

The Beaches of Agnès (Les Plages d’Agnès) A

The Brothers Bloom F

The Ghost Writer A-

The Girlfriend Experience C

The Hurt Locker A-

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus A-

The Last Station B+

The Limits of Control B+

The Sun (Solntse) A

The Time Traveler’s Wife C+

Tokyo! A-

Two Lovers B+
Recent criticWIRE Ratings
C
Alice in Wonderland
Matthew Wilder, Collider
F
Shutter Island
Matthew Wilder, Collider
D
A Prophet
Matthew Wilder, Collider
F
Happy Tears
Matthew Wilder, Collider
B
The Art of the Steal
Matthew Wilder, Collider
B-
The Ghost Writer
Matthew Wilder, Collider
C
No One Knows about Persian Cats
Charles Taylor, Fox on the Prowl
B+
Vincere
Charles Taylor, Fox on the Prowl
D
Mother
Charles Taylor, Fox on the Prowl
A-
The Runaways
Charles Taylor, Fox on the Prowl
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