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At the Siskel Film Center: ‘Panorama Latinx Short Film Showcase,’ courtesy of Chicago-based filmmakers

January 31, 2020 at 10:24 p.m.

A helping hand, at various points offering a telephone receiver, a flower and a hair dryer, enters the frame as an inexplicable assist for a high school senior getting ready...

March at the Music Box: The 70MM Film Festival opens wide and says, ‘Aaaaaaaahhh!’

January 29, 2020 at 6:25 p.m.

There is no such thing as a typical Chicago winter. But we can agree on this: a certain narrowness develops in our psyches as the skies become grayer, as February...

‘The Rhythm Section’ review: Blake Lively, changing wigs and exacting vengeance, in a movie not so lively

January 31, 2020 at 10:24 p.m.

In the new thriller "The Rhythm Section," Blake Lively and Sterling K. Brown share a scene in which Lively, as bullet-for-hire and perpetual wig-changer Stephanie Patrick, discusses possible employment opportunities...

‘City So Real’ review: At Sundance, Chicago politics, Lightfoot election and Chicago tribalism comes under Steve James’ microscope

June 6, 2020 at 2:10 p.m.

Chicago: "never a lovely so real," as Nelson Algren wrote, and "never a city so real," as author Alex Kotlowicz revised Algren's sentiment about the beautiful woman with a broken...

‘Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible’ review: A nude descends a staircase, while an artist gets an unduly cautious cinematic portrait

January 23, 2020 at 11:40 a.m.

Topsy-turvy went the urinal, and the modestly scaled, infinitely scandalous art landmark "Fountain" was born. Up went the snow shovel, dangling from a ceiling, and suddenly the world had another...

‘Picard’ review: Patrick Stewart steers a confident course for the NEXT next generation of ‘Star Trek’

January 23, 2020 at 8:21 a.m.

It takes three full episodes for 79-year-old Patrick Stewart's Jean-Luc Picard — the wise, principled man of action too good for Earth as we know it — to board an...

Christian Bale as Ken Miles, driver and master at finding speed, in "Ford v. Ferrari."

Here’s where to stream the 2020 Oscar-nominated movies

January 17, 2020 at 4:10 p.m.

Patience is a virtue, as some pious so-and-so with too much time on his hands once said. Five of this year's nine Academy Award best picture nominees, announced Monday to...

Commentary: Why an Oscar win for ‘1917’ wouldn’t be any better than last year’s ‘Green Book’ triumph

January 16, 2020 at 12:52 p.m.

Please disregard this column, if anything besides the World War I drama "1917" wins the Producers Guild of America award Saturday. If "1917" does win, there's a strong statistical likelihood...

Rendering of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, scheduled to open in LA's Exposition Park in 2022.

LA’s George Lucas museum acquires ‘Separate Cinema’ archive

January 16, 2020 at 9:04 a.m.

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, the billion-dollar brainchild of "Star Wars" creator George Lucas and Ariel Investments co-CEO and president Mellody Hobson, has acquired a vast collection known as...

‘Jezebel’ at Facets: A Vegas story unlike any other

January 15, 2020 at 12:02 p.m.

Last August, Chicago movie audiences got an early look at a beautiful feature debut. "Jezebel," set in 1998 Las Vegas, a long way from the casinos and the Strip, played...

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