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Rating: 31/2 stars (good-excellent) By Michael Phillips | Chicago Tribune critic Jonathan Demme takes an almost documentary look at an entertainingly dysfunctional clan. Photo courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics (October 10, 2008) A triumph of ambience, " Rachel Getting Married" is the first narrative feature since the 1980s from director Jonathan Demme that feels like a party—bittersweet, but a party nonetheless. It's not a remake of a Hollywood standard such as "The Truth About Charlie," Demme's riff on "Charade," or "The Manchurian Candidate," and although Demme's Oscar-winning work on "The Silence of the Lambs" did wonders for his industry cachet, I'll never love that movie the way I love the Demme films no one else could've made, the ones heralding an off-center chronicler of the human comedy. "Melvin and Howard" is what... [read full story]
