‘MaXXXine’ review: A porn star goes Hollywood as Ti West’s horror trilogy ends with a thud
After escaping a Texas porn star massacre, Mia Goth's plucky rising star Maxine can't save this letdown followup to "X" and "Pearl."
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Column: With the ICON closed, Chicago’s South Loop runs its last picture show, for now
With the closing of the multiplex on Roosevelt Road, the Kerasotes family's 115-year run in the movie business fades to black.
Review: ‘Green Border’ is a riveting account of a refugee crisis and human conscience
In times of war, and times of refugees risking their lives for lives to call their own, the distance between life and death can be measured in the length of...
‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ review: Lupita Nyong’o can’t save the world, but she saves the movie
This third "Quiet Place" is a prequel set in New York City, with the same blend of peril and exhaustion and superhuman resourcefulness.
‘Kinds of Kindness’ review: Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons plunge into an empty satirical pool
Set up as a trio of satirical fables, this is director Yorgos Lanthimos' victory lap after "Poor Things." But it feels like a letdown.
‘Janet Planet’ review: Story of a mother and daughter is drawn achingly close to life
The problem with most screenplays, line-to-line and character-to-character, is a problem of differentiation. Everybody sounds like the same type of person, human or human-adjacent qualities optional. Separate from this problem...
‘Horizon: Chapter 1’ review: Saddle up for a long, loping ride
"Horizon: An American Saga" is Kevin Costner's decades-in-the-making passion project. So why does the first film in the series lack passion?
Sundance Institute x Chicago opens soon, a front-row seat on the current moviemaking moment
"It's a chance for Chicago artists to take what they can from what we’ve learned," said Sundance's Ilyse McKimmie.
In appreciation: Donald Sutherland’s enigma variations, in 5 roles
Name a comparable actor, or someone whose qualities remind you of Donald Sutherland. Anyone? Difficult, no? I doubt there is one, certainly not with the same lucky combination of physical...
‘Thelma’ review: Grandma caper movie is June Squibb and Richard Roundtree’s big score
In the best possible way, June Squibb, native of Vandalia, Illinois, Oscar nominee for "Nebraska" and one of the replacement-cast strippers in the 1959 Broadway production of "Gypsy," has transformed...