You will stagger out of the theater wondering what exactly you just saw, but you will not easily forget it. | Continue reading
A look at the winners of this year's Chicago International Film Festival, including the recipient of this year's Roger Ebert Award. | Continue reading
A special edition of Thumbnails celebrating National Disability Employment Awareness Month. | Continue reading
A review of SyFy's Channel Zero: The Dream Door. | Continue reading
Without ever spelling it out, Esparza shows us how our treatment of one another as members of the same human family is a direct rebuke to the divisions enforced by tyrants. | Continue reading
An interview with actor and producer Gerard Butler about the submarine thriller and passion project, Hunter Killer. | Continue reading
What if James Dean lived into the ‘60s and worked primarily with French New Wave directors? | Continue reading
An article about the 4K restoration of Horace Jenkins' "Cane River" premiering October 22nd at the New Orleans Film Festival and October 25th at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, made possible by IndieCollect and the Roger and Chaz Ebert F … | Continue reading
A review of two films that played at CIFF on William Friedkin and Buster Keaton. | Continue reading
A review of the first season of Netflix's "Chilling Adventures of Sabrina." | Continue reading
The glorious, frizzy-haired, big-bearded '70s welcome Striesand and Kristofferson into the pantheon. | Continue reading
From a bestselling work of young adult fiction comes a political melodrama made with a theatrical audience in mind. | Continue reading
A review of the third season of Daredevil, which starts streaming on Netflix on October 19. | Continue reading
While it's refreshing that Hill avoids some of the cliches inherent in the material, the film's rough edges sometimes feel like a first draft. | Continue reading
With its single setting and real-time story, The Guilty is a brilliant genre exercise, a cinematic study in tension, sound design, and how to make a thrilling film with a limited tool box. | Continue reading
Dornan’s one-note performance leaves much to be desired, but Dinklage is very, very good as Villechaize. | Continue reading
A cliched but sensitively observed crime drama about a gangster's thug and a call girl who go on the run. | Continue reading
There’s an inherent longing in Elizabeth Chomko’s stunning feature debut, What They Had. | Continue reading
We see this movie to learn who the young Nobel Peace Prize winner is, but in the end, it is about her challenging us to learn who we are. | Continue reading
A scrappy documentary on the increasingly currency-focused machinations of the art world. | Continue reading
A review of the new BBC One and Netflix series Wanderlust, starring Toni Collette and Steven Mackintosh. | Continue reading
An interview with writer/director Elizabeth Chomko and actor Robert Forster about their Chicago family dramedy, What They Had. | Continue reading
An interview with the young stars of Mid90s, Jonah Hill's debut as writer/director. | Continue reading
An interview with Amandla Stenberg and director George Tillman, Jr. about their adaptation of Angie Thomas' novel, The Hate U Give. | Continue reading
An interview with special effects maestro Tom Savini, encompassing his filmmaking career. | Continue reading
Reviews from the New York Film Festival of the latest by Alfonso Cuaron, Alex Ross Perry, the Coen brothers and Julian Schnabel. | Continue reading
A wish list in honor of my birthday. #birthdaywishlist | Continue reading
An interview with the Oscar-nominated actor about producing and co-starring in Jacques Audiard's unusual Western, The Sisters Brothers. | Continue reading
An interview with writer/director Gareth Evans about his gory pagan horror film, Apostle. | Continue reading
Jana Monji reports on the different speakers and conversations at last Thursday's Women in Entertainment summit. | Continue reading
A report from the 2018 New York Film Festival on Mariano Llinás' 808-minute film, La Flor. | Continue reading
Peter Bogdanovich, film historian and filmmaker, talks about Buster Keaton, the subject of his new documentary. | Continue reading
A report from the New York Film Festival on two new films and a classic. | Continue reading
A review of two films making their Chicago debuts at CIFF this year from Christian Petzold and Olivier Assayas. | Continue reading
A review of HBO's new series from Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, Camping. | Continue reading
There might have been more power—and beauty—in a more understated approach all around. | Continue reading
The cinematic equivalent of a fun-size candy bar. | Continue reading
An unfortunately apt demonstration of what can befall a clever filmmaker who gets too clever. | Continue reading
There oughta be a law against casting Tiffany Haddish in a movie and squandering her talents. | Continue reading
It’s like nothing else you could include in your annual Halloween horror marathon this year. | Continue reading
Both scrupulous and fittingly hazy, Gyllenhaal captures her character’s outsider-ly state-of-mind with astonishing depth, through the subtlest of details in the way she carries herself. | Continue reading
As long as the focus is on Mia and Elliot, the film is involving and moving. | Continue reading
A pronouncement of a major talent in Jim Cummings. | Continue reading
Links to our reviews of films playing the Chicago International Film Festival. | Continue reading
A review of Mike Flanagan's new horror series based on the Shirley Jackson novel, The Haunting of Hill House. | Continue reading
An interview with Felix Van Groeningen, director/co-writer of "Beautiful Boy." | Continue reading
If you want to get an almost first-person sense of what it felt like to ride a rocket into orbit and beyond, First Man is the film to see. | Continue reading