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Cliff Doerksen

Cliff Doerksen

Cliff Doerksen's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s): Chicago Reader
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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Review
Prisoner of Her Past (2010) Dry-eyed but deeply moving, this Kartemquin Films documentary by Gordon Quinn follows Reich (longtime jazz critic for the Chicago Tribune) on a journey of discovery back to the family's native village of Dubno, Poland. It's riveting stuff. - Chicago Reader
Read More | Posted Apr 14, 2016
5/5
Sicko (2007) Equal parts laugh-riot and call to arms. - Time Out Chicago
Read More | Posted Aug 05, 2013
Post Grad (2009) Director Vicky Jenson has a sitcom script on her hands and proceeds accordingly. - Chicago Reader
Read More | Posted Jun 10, 2013
Garbo: The Spy (2009) Edmon Roch spins a zippy yarn of Pujol's improbable exploits from archival footage, talking heads, and clips from classic espionage dramas. - Chicago Reader
Read More | Posted Dec 08, 2011
4/5
Hula Girls (2006) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2011
3/5
Helvetica (2007) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2011
4/5
2 Days in Paris (2007) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2011
1/5
Halloween (2007) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2011
5/5
28 Weeks Later (2007) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2011
5/5
The Edge of Heaven (2007) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2011
4/5
Crazy Love (2007) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2011
5/5
Away From Her (2006) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2011
3/5
Talk to Me (2007) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2011
1/5
The 11th Hour (2007) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2011
5/5
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2011
1/5
The Invasion (2007) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2011
2/5
Exiled (2006) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2011
3/5
The Hottest State (2006) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2011
3/5
Rocket Science (2007) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2011
4/5
Death Sentence (2007) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2011
1/5
Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman (2006) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2011
4/5
War and Peace (1966) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2011
4/5
Poisoned by Polonium: The Litvinenko File (2007) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2011
2/5
Death at a Funeral (2007) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2011
3/5
Them (2006) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2011
4/5
My Best Friend (2006) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5
No End in Sight (2007) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 17, 2011
1/5
Walking to Werner (2006) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 17, 2011
1/5
Hollywood Dreams (2006) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 17, 2011
1/5
Waitress (2007) Essentially a king-size serving of sitcom - Time Out Chicago
Read More | Posted Nov 17, 2011
1/5
Black Sheep (2006) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 17, 2011
2/5
Macbeth (2006) Something weakened this way comes, you could say. - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 17, 2011
2/5
Vitus (2006) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 17, 2011
4/5
Red Road (2006) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 17, 2011
1/5
In the Land of Women (2007) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 17, 2011
3/5
Goya's Ghosts (2006) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 17, 2011
4/5
Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox (2006) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 17, 2011
2/5
Jindabyne (2006) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 17, 2011
1/5
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 17, 2011
2/5
Miss Potter (2006) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 17, 2011
4/5
12:08 East of Bucharest (2006) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 17, 2011
4/5
Dans Paris (2006) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 17, 2011
3/5
Paris, je t'aime (2006) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 17, 2011
2/5
Delirious (2006) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 17, 2011
2/5
Black Book (2006) - Time Out
Read More | Posted Nov 16, 2011
Samson & Delilah (2009) This sterling 2009 debut by Warwick Thornton is harrowing and tragic but has a stoic, stately realism that elevates the material way above victim politics. - Chicago Reader
Read More | Posted Jan 04, 2011
A Film Unfinished (2009) Filmmaker Yael Hersonski reshapes the impossibly vile and tragic source material into a devastating record of Nazi criminality. - Chicago Reader
Read More | Posted Jan 04, 2011
Mugabe and the White African (2009) The result is part legal thriller, part five-hankie melodrama. - Chicago Reader
Read More | Posted Jan 04, 2011
Agora (2009) This Spanish-produced period drama is pretty dreadful: the drama is torpid, the astronomy lessons pedantic, and the spear-and-sandal production values flat-out cheesy. - Chicago Reader
Read More | Posted Jan 03, 2011
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