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New! Jonathan Rosenbaum's new Web site, jonathanrosenbaum.com, has launched.

Jonathan Rosenbaum is retiring from his full-time job as a film writer for the Reader; we've collected his favorite reviews, over a decade's worth of top-ten lists, an interview, and more, all in one place.
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Recently published long reviews:
Redbelt, Reviewed 5/15/08
Last Year at Marienbad, Reviewed 5/1/08
The Visitor, Reviewed 4/17/08
The New Deal on Film, Reviewed 4/10/08
Shine a Light; Movin' On Up: The Music and Message of the Impressions, 1965-1973, Reviewed 4/3/08
Snow Angels, Reviewed 3/20/08
Funny Games, Reviewed 3/13/08
Chicago 10, Reviewed 2/28/08
Charlie Bartlett, Reviewed 2/21/2008
Diary of the Dead, Reviewed 2/14/2008
4 Months, 3 Weeks, & 2 Days, Reviewed 2/07/2008
Cloverfield, Reviewed 1/24/2008
Honeydripper, Reviewed 1/17/2008
Persepolis, Reviewed 1/10/2008
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Reviewed 12/20/2007
Starting Out in the Evening, Reviewed 12/13/2007
Atonement, Reviewed 12/06/2007
I'm Not There, Reviewed 11/22/2007
Still Lives: The Films of Pedro Costa, Reviewed 11/15/2007
No Country For Old Men, Reviewed 11/08/2007

For more, see the Reader Archive

The Best Movies of 2007:
  • Local premieres of a dozen masterpieces--almost none released in the past 12 months--made 2007 a good movie year. by Jonathan Rosenbaum
  • In a year when shirking responsibility was the rule, movies about accepting it stood out. by J.R. Jones

  • Excerpts from Jonathan Rosenbaum's Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Movies We Can See.
    Rosenbaum's Top 40 Films of 2002, 2000.
    Rosenbaum's Top Ten for 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2001, 1999, 1998, 1997, and 1996.
    100 best American films.
    Ten Best Movies of the 90s.
    Where's the old On Film archive?

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