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Music Box Theatre Assistant Technical Director Rebecca Lyon displays frames of a reel from "Oppenheimer" on a light table as it is rewound during a showing on July 29, 2023, in Chicago. Lyon said the 70 mm version of the three-hour movie involves nine reels used on dual gauge projectors.

This movie critic went looking for the biggest, best way to see ‘Oppenheimer.’ Here’s what I found.

August 3, 2023 at 5:45 a.m.

We're about to begin week three of "Oppenheimer" bombarding audiences with writer-director Christopher Nolan's dramatization of how theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer led the Manhattan Project's nuclear bomb test at...

Sophie Wilde in a scene from "Talk to Me."

‘Talk to Me’ review: When a game of talk-to-the-hand turns into a nightmare

July 28, 2023 at 12:52 p.m.

In this movie summer of screaming pink ("Barbie") and flaming orange ("Oppenheimer"), is there psychic and aesthetic room for a dour, low-lit Australian horror film about demonic possession? "Talk to...

The box office future is extraordinarily bright for "Oppenheimer," starring Cillian Murphy as the theoretical nuclear physicist who led the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico.

Column: The lesson Hollywood should learn from ‘Barbenheimer’? Let originality come through.

July 26, 2023 at 2:25 p.m.

"Barbenheimer" saved the movie universe this week by handing eager audiences an eyeful of two very different planets. Neither "Barbie" nor "Oppenheimer" was "just another," meaning: not just another sequel...

Tony Bennett waves to the crowd as he takes the stage at Ravinia in Highland Park, Aug. 18, 2012.

Tony Bennett appreciation: Decade after decade, he left his heart in every fan’s memories

July 22, 2023 at 12:02 p.m.

A great singer passes, and we fall back into his work to honor the loss. Not long after hearing of Tony Bennett's death, I revisited the 1975 album Bennett recorded...

Patrons watch the opening credits of "Gone With the Wind" in Theater One at the historic Pickwick Theatre, Jan. 12, 2023.

Column: What’s next for the beloved Pickwick Theatre — and what they shouldn’t ignore (hint: it’s the movies)

July 23, 2023 at 12:11 p.m.

After months of announcements that an announcement would be forthcoming — yet did not, in fact, come forth — we now know. We know who's taking over the lease at...

Cillian Murphy as the "father of the atom bomb" J. Robert Oppenheimer in director Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer."

‘Oppenheimer’ review: Christopher Nolan and Cillian Murphy dissect the tortured conscience behind our atomic age

July 19, 2023 at 11:30 a.m.

Filmmaker Christopher Nolan has presented us with so many dark splendors and unsettling displays of destruction in his career — in science fiction, in Gotham City or in "Dunkirk," his...

Mattel's emblem of perfection (Margot Robbie) prepares for another day in director Greta Gerwig's "Barbie."

‘Barbie’ review: A doll’s life is richly, unexpectedly imagined by Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie

July 18, 2023 at 5:55 p.m.

"Barbie" is a lovely, eccentrically imaginative example of brand extension and raw, untrammeled commercialism. Well, maybe a little trammeled. Any $145 million studio movie based on a doll, accessories sold...

Amy Morton as Sgt. Trudy Platt in the long-running NBC series "Chicago P.D."

Column: Chicago mainstay Amy Morton on the actors’ strike: ‘We’re mad. And we’re fed up.’

July 18, 2023 at 12:10 p.m.

When mid-July rolls around, Chicago-based and raised actor Amy Morton typically starts work on a new, 22-episode season of the long-running NBC series "Chicago P.D.," on which she plays the...

Ben Platt and Molly Gordon play counselors at a crisis-laden summer mainstay for aspiring drama legends in "Theater Camp."

‘Theater Camp’ review: Hello muddah, hello faddah, camp is pretty entertaining

July 14, 2023 at 11:30 a.m.

One of the many bright lights in Season 2 of "The Bear," Molly Gordon is all over the amiable new comedy "Theater Camp" as co-director, co-writer and co-star. This one's...

Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance and (above) Michel Piccoli in Jean-Luc Godard's "Contempt."

Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Contempt’ — his provocative 1963 movie about a marriage — screens in a 4k restoration at Siskel Center

July 13, 2023 at 2:15 p.m.

"Contempt" remains as peculiar, sullen and gorgeous a film today as when Jean-Luc Godard had the profoundly conflicted experience of making it 60 years ago. The new 4k digital restoration,...

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