Jessica Reaves

Pick of the day "Babel" (star)(star)(star)1/2 (Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, U.S.; 2:22) The title suggests a world separated by language and misunderstanding, which is exactly Inarritu's subject here. After "Amores Perros"...

Chicago International Film Festival screenings are held at AMC River East 21 (AMC), 322 Illinois St.; Landmark's Century Centre Cinema (LM), 2828 N. Clark St.; and Thorne Auditorium, on Northwestern...

Pick of the day "Day Night Day Night" (star)(star)(star) (U.S., Julia Loktev; 1:34) Like Santosh Sivan's 1999 Indian film, "The Terrorist," this is a tense study of a young woman...

PICK OF THE DAY "Summercamp!" (star)(star)(star) (Bradley Beesley and Sarah Price, U.S.; 1:25) Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, sometimes sweet and always engaging, this documentary about a summer at the Swift...

Pick of the day "King and the Clown" (star)(star)(star) (Jun-ik Lee, South Korea; 1:59) This lusty Korean period epic, in the Im Kwon-taek tradition, became South Korea's all-time box-office champ...

Pick of the day `A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints' (star)(star)(star)1/2 (Dito Montiel, United States; 1:38) No one can accuse Dito Montiel of sugarcoating his past. The memoirist turned screenwriter...

Mark and Jay Duplass have been making movies since the mid-'80s, when premieres took place in their parents' living room. In the last five years or so, the brothers' films...

New Yorkers love to boast about their city's brawny hip-hop industry. Nashvilleans don't waste any time reminding you that they're at the wheel of the country music machine. And Austin,...

Who's in it: Ana Cristina de Oliveira (right), Nuno Gil, Joao Carreria What it's about: Rui's (Gil) mourning of his longtime lover Pedro is interrupted by Odete (de Oliveira), a...

Who's in it: Norma Aleandro, Guillermo Toledo, Maria Botto, Marian Aguilera What it's about: A Palestinian (Toledo) tries to make a good impression on his Jewish girlfriend's (Aguilera) family, led...