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Joaquin Phoenix in a scene from "Joker."

‘Joker’ review: Joaquin Phoenix creates an interior world of pain. His movie is a pain, period.

October 3, 2019 at 9:13 a.m.

"Joker" starts in with the pain straight off, in its opening seconds. As Arthur Fleck, a perpetually humiliated, bullied and marginalized Gotham City clown for hire dreaming of a career...

This image released by Netflix shows Meryl Streep in a scene from "The Laundromat," in theaters now and on Netflix starting Oct. 18. (Claudette Barius/Netflix via AP)

‘The Laundromat’ review: Meryl Streep gets hoodwinked out of insurance money by Antonio Banderas, Gary Oldman

October 2, 2019 at 1:24 p.m.

Is "the secret life of money" a compelling enough subject for a film? That phrase pops up early in director Steven Soderbergh's "The Laundromat," opening nationally this week to be...

Review: ‘Fleabag’ stage version shows off ‘fabulous’ Phoebe Waller-Bridge

October 1, 2019 at 12:45 p.m.

A small thing that turns into a huge thing, the way Phoebe Waller-Bridge's solo stage version of "Fleabag" did recently on television, typically hits a wall of passive/dismissive resistance once...

For University of Chicago’s Jacqueline Stewart, Turner Classic Movies is a teaching moment

September 26, 2019 at 8:34 p.m.

On Sept. 15, Turner Classic Movies rolled out its weekly edition of "Silent Sunday Nights" with a 1927 comedy, "Two Arabian Knights." The film was considered lost for decades until...

Marchant Davis in "The Day Shall Come." (Film4 Productions) ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG, TCN - OUTS **

‘The Day Shall Come’ review: Anna Kendrick tries a little tenderness along with her FBI entrapment

September 27, 2019 at 6:00 a.m.

"The Day Shall Come" believes in disconcerting satire for discombobulated times. It's messy, and hindered by some scattered storytelling in the crucial first 15 minutes, when it would've benefited from...

‘Holy Trinity’ review: The Chicago dominatrix can hear dead people. And it’s a marketable skill!

September 26, 2019 at 9:15 p.m.

Bracingly sex-positive in all directions, if oddly flat as a performance vehicle, "Holy Trinity" marks the feature filmmaking debut of Molly Hewitt, who produced, wrote, directed and stars in this...

‘Judy’ review: Renee Zellweger is fascinating, fully committed as Judy Garland and worth seeing

September 25, 2019 at 11:11 a.m.

For an actress, the role of Judy Garland courts comparison to climbing Mount Everest. Close, but it's more like scaling Everest while Everest crumbles beneath your feet. And you have...

TOPSHOT - British actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge poses with the Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series and Outstanding Comedy Series for "Fleabag" during the 71st Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles on September 22, 2019. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP)ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG, CM - OUTS * NM, PH, VA if sourced by CT, LA or MoD **

Emmy winner Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s stage version of ‘Fleabag,’ taped in London, coming to the Gene Siskel Film Center

October 5, 2019 at 1:50 p.m.

Taped a few weeks ago during a performance at London's Wyndham's Theatre, as part of its "last ever run," the Phoebe Waller-Bridge theatrical and TV phenomenon "Fleabag" is coming to...

Judyism: Your Tribune primer on the Garland who’ll never get away

September 21, 2019 at 5:46 p.m.

Underneath a half-century or more of impersonators, train-wreck anecdotes and "Wizard of Oz" Dorothy Gale costumes for any occasion, underneath the mountain of pills and heartbreak, the cyclical, cyclonic comebacks...

Actor and director Gael Garcia Bernal, photographed at the Venice International Film Festival Sept. 1. Bernal, subject of a Chicago International Film Festival tribute, is scheduled to visit the Chicago festival Oct. 26.

Chicago Film Fest lineup: Gael Garcia Bernal, Hitler satire ‘Jojo Rabbit’ and a ‘Star Wars’ director

September 18, 2019 at 12:06 p.m.

Opening Oct. 16 with screenwriter-director-star Edward Norton's detective story "Motherless Brooklyn," followed by a late-night screening of the "Zombieland" sequel, the 55th edition of the Chicago International Film Festival includes...

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