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Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone star in the true-crime drama "Killers of the Flower Moon."

‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ review: Scorsese delivers an epic of oil, greed, racism and sorrow, set in 1920s Oklahoma

March 12, 2024 at 11:53 a.m.

The word comes out of Lily Gladstone's mouth quietly, and straightforwardly enough, with a hint of disdain: "incompetent." This is how Gladstone's character, Mollie Burkhart of the Osage Nation of...

Writer-director Minhal Baig outside her home in Chicago's Hyde Park, Oct. 16, 2023.

Meet Minhal Baig, the next great Chicago filmmaker

October 18, 2023 at 5:15 a.m.

No one's story is a simple one, and writer-director Minhal Baig's third feature "We Grown Now" takes care to depict her main characters — two boys growing up and then...

Taylor Swift performs at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, on Aug. 7, 2023. The concert film "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour" is now in theaters.

‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’ review: Swifties will be plenty happy. And nothing else could possibly matter.

October 13, 2023 at 10:30 a.m.

As fan service, and as a bypass of the conventional Hollywood movie distribution model, "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour" has done the job. Is this one of the great concert...

Chicago Int’l. Film Festival is now open: Here’s a list of 10 to get you going

October 11, 2023 at 4:22 p.m.

This week the 59th Chicago International Film Festival, the oldest juried festival of its kind in North America, spreads out like a blanket across the city and says: Here's new...

Movie critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert are the subjects of a new book, Matt Singer's "Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever."

The Siskel & Ebert rivalry, and its legacy, comes alive in the new book ‘Opposable Thumbs’

October 11, 2023 at 6:39 a.m.

Like any great rivalry, the competition and, later, the lucrative partnership between baiduhai film critic Gene Siskel and Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert has been dissected and debated...

Rupert Friend and Asa Jennings in "The Swan," directed by Wes Anderson.

On Netflix: Four short Roald Dahl tales adapted by Wes Anderson add up, splendidly

October 6, 2023 at 5:45 a.m.

The new Wes Anderson adaptations of Roald Dahl stories, now streaming on Netflix, outpace and out-satisfy so many of Anderson's feature-length projects, the question simply is this: Why? What is...

Erika Alexander, left, and Jeffrey Wright in a scene from "American Fiction."

2023 Chicago Int’l Film Fest: From Ukraine documentary to Michael Shannon debut, movies you’ll remember

October 6, 2023 at 5:15 a.m.

Talk to three different festival programmers, even if they're working on the same festival, and you'll get three different ideas of what's on the minds of filmmakers whose work fills...

Lidya Jewett, left, and Olivia Marcum in a scene from "The Exorcist: Believer."

‘The Exorcist: Believer’ review: Not today, Satan

October 6, 2023 at 8:39 a.m.

Director David Gordon Green's weirdly cautious reboot of the "Exorcist" franchise, the first of a planned trilogy, comes with the name "The Exorcist: Believer." And we do, insofar as believing...

Alden Ehrenreich, left, and Phoebe Dynevor in a scene from "Fair Play."

‘Fair Play’ review: From Netflix, a compelling, sexy corporate thriller for today

September 29, 2023 at 5:15 a.m.

Young, lusty and getting richer by the second, Emily and Luke work for a New York hedge fund called One Crest Capital. Their relationship — they live together — violates...

Jeremy Allen White as Carmen "Carmy" Berzatto in Season 2 of the Hulu show "The Bear," set in Chicago.

‘The Bear’ unit production manager has 3 words for Chicago-made projects: Locations, locations, locations

September 29, 2023 at 9:12 a.m.

"Not necessarily realistic. But authentic." That's one credo Carrie Holt de Lama, a veteran of the Chicago film industry, has learned through countless hours of driving around, with a location...

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