‘How to Have Sex’ review: A teen holiday frames an arresting portrait of trust and consent
Mia McKenna-Bruce stars in "How to Have Sex," debut filmmaker Molly Manning Walker's incisive answer to every losing-virginity teen comedy in existence.
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Column: Some actors just have that voice. Here’s why we listen.
Listen up! This year's Oscar nominees include Jeffrey Wright, Paul Giamatti, Annette Bening, Colman Domingo and a few others whose singular voices have that certain ... something
‘Anselm’ review: The most beautiful 3D film experience is showing this week at the Music Box Theatre
Wim Wenders' documentary at Chicago's Music Box Theatre makes for the finest 3D viewing experience I can recall.
‘Argylle’ review: I spy utter mediocrity from the maker of the ‘Kingsman’ trilogy
My opinion of the movie aside: If you enjoyed director Matthew Vaughn's "Kingsman" movies, you'll probably go for "Argylle," which is scarcely less violent and at least as glibly sadistic.
Column: What does ‘Godzilla Minus One’ have that Hollywood doesn’t?
Back for a very limited run in black-and-white, "Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color" is a triumph of efficiently budgeted imagination.
Bleak, bittersweet and tough: I miss 1970s movies, the ones for grown-ups before ‘Star Wars’
This column started with a quote-tweet, or whatever we're calling them now. Earlier this week, film critic Sean Burns posted a comment on X after seeing a screening of "Chinatown."...
In appreciation: From director Norman Jewison, 10 to watch from ‘In the Heat of the Night’ to ‘The Hurricane’
There is no quintessential Norman Jewison movie. There are only wide-ranging examples of the Canadian-born filmmaker's versatility: Doris Day comedies, Oscar-winning dramatic powerhouses, a half-dozen stage-to-screen adaptations — and my...
Column: The ‘Barbie’ Oscar snubs aren’t about genre bias — unless you’re misspelling the word ‘gender’
Last year was an unusually strong year for the movies, and the Academy Award nominations announced Tuesday reflect a lot of that strong, vital work. It happens now and then,...
Review: ‘Last Things,’ from a true Chicago poet of experimentalism, now at the Film Center
Fifty minutes: so many ways you can spend that amount of time. Reading. Running. Cooking. Talking with a therapist about your place in this world. Or this: Watching Chicago-based filmmaker...
‘The Teachers’ Lounge’ review: Nerve-wracking school drama is a cinch for next week’s Oscar nominations
You can read it online, or — better — you can sweat it out in its completed form when it opens in wide release this week. Either way, the screenplay...