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‘Fantastic Beasts 2’ review: Eddie Redmayne and Johnny Depp commence the war of the cheekbones

November 5, 2019 at 6:47 a.m.

Without overpraising the charm of “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” or undervaluing the baseline proficiency of “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald,” I must report: It took J.K....

Gillian Flynn attends the "Widows" press conference at Toronto International Film Festival in September.

Viola Davis, Gillian Flynn and Steve McQueen enter Chicago underworld with ‘Widows’

December 11, 2018 at 9:10 p.m.

Opening next week, the heist thriller “Widows” takes place in Chicago, where it was filmed. But you know what? You never get a shot of the Bean, the Millennium Park...

The new documentary "Hal" celebrates the life and movies of filmmaker Hal Ashby, a key Hollywood iconoclast of the 1970s. Pictured here: Ashby on the "Harold and Maude" set with actress Ruth Gordon.

Hal Ashby’s decade of glory returns in style Friday at the Siskel Center

December 11, 2018 at 8:50 p.m.

Hal Ashby wouldn’t happen today. He and his films were indelible phenomena of the 1970s, no less than Watergate, WIN buttons, leisure suits and Farrah hair. Unlike the leisure suit...

‘A Private War’ review: Rosamund Pike excels in war correspondent drama

December 11, 2018 at 10:06 p.m.

A previous version of this review misspelled the name of Jamie Dornan’s character. There’s no movie blather like journalism movie blather. Even if you’re not an officially designated enemy of...

‘Girl in the Spider’s Web’ review: Claire Foy hacks as the girl with the dragon tattoo, while script just hacks around

August 24, 2019 at 11:46 p.m.

“The Girl in the Spider’s Web: A New Dragon Tattoo Story” has lots of what you want, if you want something grindingly familiar. It’s full of prettily photographed brutality, most...

‘Nobody’s Fool’ review: Tiffany Haddish and Tika Sumpter gamely put on a sister act

December 11, 2018 at 7:14 p.m.

The Tyler Perry Studios logo signifies many things: a successful business model for production and distribution; a tremendous amount of work, for a wide, deep, underserved African-American talent pool; and,...

‘The Other Side of the Wind’ review: Orson Welles’ last first film

December 11, 2018 at 6:59 p.m.

Each film by Orson Welles feels like a first film, wrestled into shape by an artist working by instinct as well as craft. The two-hour version now available of Welles’...

Carey Mulligan ‘Wildlife’ interview: Telling the truth, one role at a time

December 11, 2018 at 6:53 p.m.

In film after film, 33-year-old Carey Mulligan has made a virtue of watching, listening and locating the unspoken between the lines. She first came to worldwide attention as the bright...

His career as "the gay best friend" at a standstill, Rupert Everett started writing his Oscar Wilde movie more than a decade ago. "The Happy Prince" is now in theaters.

Rupert Everett: How Oscar Wilde pulled one actor out of a career rut

December 11, 2018 at 6:53 p.m.

For 10 years and change, the actor and author Rupert Everett — well-known in the U.S. and his native England for “Another Country,” the Chicago-filmed “My Best Friend’s Wedding” and...

‘Suspiria’ review: Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton dance with the demons

December 12, 2018 at 11:49 a.m.

“Suspiria” takes a good long while with everything: Its evocations of 1977 West Berlin, dominated by news and stray bombings of the militant Red Army Faction; its dance rehearsal and...

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