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Sunday at Facets: An open-house tribute to the late Milos Stehlik, featuring Marlene Dietrich, the Czech New Wave, Errol Morris — and Chicago on screen

December 5, 2019 at 12:04 p.m.

On Sunday, Facets Cinematheque, the unassuming-looking home for world and independent cinema on West Fullerton, opens its two theaters for a free "micro-festival" of 10 film programs celebrating the life...

‘Girl on the Third Floor’ review: Bordello ghosts complicate a Chicago-area home renovation. Moral: Think twice about the suburbs

December 3, 2019 at 2:15 p.m.

A shrewd, slow-build first half, minimally violent but dripping with oozy fluids plaguing one man's suburban Chicago home renovation, is enough to recommend the locally made thriller "Girl on the...

‘Little Women’ review: 4 stars for Greta Gerwig’s terrific version of the classic

December 4, 2019 at 11:30 a.m.

Fresh off "Lady Bird" (2017), a wonderful movie about a young writer leaving home, the writer-director Greta Gerwig has made another wonderful movie about a young writer leaving home, although...

An intrepid Klondike prospector — Charlie Chaplin — does his best to enjoy his Thanksgiving meal in "The Gold Rush."

Giving thanks for Gluggavedur, the impeachment hearings — and the Chicago film scene

November 26, 2019 at 1:42 p.m.

This week, I give thanks for many things. The Icelandic word "Gluggavedur," for one. It means "weather that looks appealing from inside, but would be unpleasant to be outside in."...

‘Queen & Slim’ review: A first date, a police shooting and a road movie for today

November 27, 2019 at 12:29 p.m.

In a Cleveland, Ohio, diner called the Fortyniner, two people who've just met on Tinder share a table. While there is no romantic equivalent of a gold rush in progress,...

’21 Bridges’: Chadwick Boseman takes Manhattan and on the whole, I’d rather be in Wakanda

November 27, 2019 at 1:00 p.m.

Chadwick Boseman should get 'em in the door, and in the elevator after the "21 Bridges" promo screening, a female consensus of two agreed that the movie "wasn't bad," and...

‘Knives Out’ review: A sleuth plays a ripping game of Clue, and a family of vipers wonders whodunit

November 27, 2019 at 11:25 a.m.

Writer-director Rian Johnson's fizzy Agatha Christie riff "Knives Out" succeeds as a throwback with more than mere nostalgia on its mind. Against our current wash of grim Scandinavian serial-killer binge-watches,...

"Knives Out" writer-director Rian Johnson, right, with one of the whodunit's prime suspects, Michael Shannon, left, at the Peninsula Hotel in Chicago.

With ‘Knives Out,’ writer-director Rian Johnson recasts Agatha Christie for the MAGA age

November 22, 2019 at 1:45 p.m.

Rian Johnson is 45 and, according to Michael Shannon, one of many well-known actors in Johnson's droll new whodunit "Knives Out," a "lovely guy. I'd work with him again in...

‘Waves’ review: Sterling K. Brown co-stars in a gripping family odyssey of tragedy and redemption

November 26, 2019 at 8:40 a.m.

"No second chances! No second acts!" bellows the high school wrestling coach played by Bill Wise, a regular supporting player in the work of filmmaker Trey Edward Shults, in the...

‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ review: Tom Hanks is great, but…

November 18, 2019 at 1:45 p.m.

"A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" is not primarily about Fred Rogers, or "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," and it isn't a traditional biopic, not even a traditional two-headed biopic. You should...

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