Glenn Close is subtly devastating, indicating a lifetime of repression and resentment in just the slightest wry smile or withering glance. | Continue reading
The story’s predictable arc doesn’t leave enough to the imagination, and like Annie, we might start hoping for change just to shake things up in this sleepy plot. | Continue reading
All the basics of a high school rom-com line up as though their names are being called out in home room attendance-taking. | Continue reading
One of the best films I’ve seen about the ways in which grief can pull a person in both directions simultaneously. | Continue reading
A film in which all the wit and ingenuity on hand appears to have been squandered on coming up with the title. | Continue reading
The latest on Blu-ray, DVD, and streaming services, including The Rider, Zama, and The Avengers: Infinity War. | Continue reading
A tribute to the Queen of Soul. | Continue reading
The 10th anniversary of the Chicago edition of the traveling Noir City festival runs from August 17 to 23 at the Music Box Theatre. | Continue reading
There’s a more than satisfactory amount of boom boom in the movie’s trim running time. | Continue reading
A deep dive into the acting career of Glenn Close, celebrating a performer who gets more out of stillness than almost any other actor. | Continue reading
Austin Pendleton and Ann Whitney on "Calumet"; Keeping up with Hugh Grant; Score-only version of "The Last Jedi"; David and Lauren Hogg's new book; Problem with seeking the best for your kids. | Continue reading
Very few films have ever captured the pains of being first-generation American quite like Crazy Rich Asians. | Continue reading
A review of Netflix's new animated series from Matt Groening. | Continue reading
A collection of all of Roger Ebert's reviews of Spike Lee's films. | Continue reading
An essay about Alien 3, as excerpted from the latest edition of the online magazine Bright Wall/Dark Room. | Continue reading
An interview with director Carl Franklin, on the occasion of his film "One False Move" receiving a special presentation at Chicago's upcoming Noir City festival. | Continue reading
An interview with two stars and the director of the new film, "The Wife." | Continue reading
Crystal Moselle's "Skate Kitchen," about a group of young female skateboarders in New York City, is a solid hangout movie as well as a band-of-buddies film—genres that tend to revolve around young men. It's also a movie that deliberately blurs the line between documentary and fic … | Continue reading
A Prayer Before Dawn will put you through the wringer and eventually make you glad you went. | Continue reading
Though the subject matter could’ve been developed into a more challenging and provocative yarn, this film’s chief aim is escapism. | Continue reading
Madeline’s Madeline lacks the self-reflection needed to answer its own questions about authorship—its story doesn't quite belong to its protagonist. | Continue reading
A modest little suspense puzzle that simulates rather than builds on vastly better “my neighbor may be a murderer” stories from “Rear Window” to “Stranger Things.” | Continue reading
Hjorleifsdottir’s film is evocative and intimate, and it’s exciting to see her shirk the formula we’ve grown accustomed to in all those summer-that-changed-everything movies. | Continue reading
I guess it's only a matter of time before even the most unabashed action film buff starts to feel worn down by programmatic beat-em-ups. BuyBust may be that point for me. | Continue reading
A pseudo-experiment as stupid as it is genuine, and damn if this movie isn’t totally committed to its premise. | Continue reading
Nothing is scarier than bad filmmaking. | Continue reading
A report from the various PBS panels at this past month's Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour. | Continue reading
A piece about the addition of Best Popular Film to the Oscars. | Continue reading
As a vehicle for painlessly killing a few brain cells during the waning days of summer, it gets the job done. | Continue reading
A review of the new series Insatiable, which premiere Friday on Netflix. | Continue reading
An article about the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Annual Grants Banquet scheduled for August 9th. | Continue reading
Anyone who’s ever felt altered by an animal companion will easily find something to love in this shamelessly happy, defiantly nice film that celebrates amity among families, neighbors, generations and even different species. | Continue reading
An interview with John David Washington, star of "BlacKkKlansman." | Continue reading
Juggling the somber and the hilarious, the sacred and the profane, and tragedy and triumph, Spike Lee is firing on all cylinders here. | Continue reading
An article about tomorrow's nationwide free screenings of "Eighth Grade," which all ages are welcome to attend. | Continue reading
A review of Amazon's Ordeal by Innocence, based on the book by Agatha Christie. | Continue reading
An interview with the director of "IVRY," and a presentation of the short film. | Continue reading
With "Mission: Impossible - Fallout," Christopher McQuarrie has now made the best and worst "M:I" movies to date. | Continue reading
A review of AMC's new dramedy, Lodge 49. | Continue reading
A review of the fourth season of Better Call Saul. | Continue reading
Four reviews from the Fantasia International Film Festival, including two world premieres. | Continue reading
"Night Comes On" is built around the numbed, distant stare of its heroine, Angel (Dominque Fishback), a teenage girl who wants to kill her father for murdering her mother. The story begins in relative tranquility, with Angel remembering what it was like when her parents were both … | Continue reading
MIFF's annual Female Filmmakers Night will feature a Grand Jury Prize, presented by Chaz Ebert. | Continue reading
A report from Netflix's day at the Television Critics Association press tour, including the latest on their biggest shows. | Continue reading
An interview with co-writer/director Desiree Akhavan, about her new film, The Miseducation of Cameron Post. | Continue reading