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Janelle Monáe, left, and Kathryn Hahn trade accusations and evasions in "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery."

‘Glass Onion’ review: Daniel Craig is sleuthin’ it up in an enjoyably twisty ‘Knives Out’ sequel from Rian Johnson

November 24, 2022 at 5:15 a.m.

"Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery" premieres next month on Netflix. Meantime, it's playing for just a few days in a few hundred theaters nationwide, despite the theatrical success of...

Mateo Zoryon Francis-DeFord in a scene from "The Fabelmans."

‘The Fabelmans’ review: A boy with a movie camera, in Steven Spielberg’s childhood highlights reel

November 28, 2022 at 3:29 p.m.

Steven Spielberg is our maestro of commercial cinematic trauma. Ever since the staggeringly simple highway nightmare and TV movie phenomenon "Duel" (1971), he has made anxiety — his own and...

Forest Whitaker as Jeronicus Jangle in "Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey."

Movie Top 10 for the holidays: From a new ‘Scrooge’ to an old Christmas romance you’ve never seen

November 22, 2022 at 1:18 p.m.

Our stockings runneth over with streaming holiday options whose titles, on Netflix and Hallmark and elsewhere, tend to blur into a single, extended holiday viewing option we'll call "Countdown to...

Chef Charlie Trotter, the subject of Rebecca Halpern's documentary "Love, Charlie," prepares a plate in 2012. He died a year later at the age of 54.

‘Love, Charlie’ is a documentary about the fearsome, legendary Chicago chef Charlie Trotter. A movie and food critic debate the cost of his kind of fame.

November 20, 2022 at 6:05 a.m.

Opening its doors in 1987, Charlie Trotter's put a new kind of fine, French-inspired, bracingly unpredictable gastronomic experience on the Chicago map. The people with money came. From everywhere. Trotter...

A fearsomely exacting chef (Ralph Fiennes) confronts a guest (Anya Taylor-Joy) at his secluded island establishment in "The Menu."

‘The Menu’ review: From ‘yes, chef!’ to a horrified ‘oh no!,’ with Ralph Fiennes in the kitchen

November 18, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

I'm reviewing the food-snobbery-will-kill-you comedy "The Menu," never having eaten at, well — name the Michelin-starred restaurant and I haven't eaten there. Some day. When that cost-of-living raise finally arrives....

Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan star in "She Said," about New York Times investigative reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor and their influential stories on the sexual predation of film producer Harvey Weinstein.

‘She Said’ review: Setting journalistic fire to Harvey Weinstein’s casting couch, in one of the year’s best films

November 17, 2022 at 5:37 p.m.

In October 2017, after years of conspicuous prime-time wisecracks about that smarmy, skeezy Harvey Weinstein, the New York Times published the first of many accounts suggesting the full extent of...

Set to the music of Isaac Hayes, "Shaft" helped usher in a new generation of Black talent long denied access to the film industry.

Review: On Netflix, a revolution of 1968-1978 filmmaking ignites ‘Is That Black Enough for You?!?’

November 15, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Now on Netflix, the invigorating documentary "Is That Black Enough for You?!?" borrows its title from a line in the 1970 caper "Cotton Comes to Harlem." That movie was no...

Jessica Lange will talk with Adam Gopnik as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival Nov. 12.

Jessica Lange at Chicago Humanities Festival: She got away from the cameras by exploring New York with one of her own

November 11, 2022 at 10:39 a.m.

The French word "dérive" translates in English, variously, as "drift," "drifting" or "unplanned journey," and in the early months of the pandemic, and subsequent lockdown, actor Jessica Lange embarked on...

Frankie Corio and Paul Mescal in the movie "Aftersun."

‘Aftersun’ review: A daughter is drawn back to a vacation she once took with her father in this lovely debut film

November 10, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Time and memories flow like water in "Aftersun," the Scottish writer-director Charlotte Wells' singular feature debut. It is not a generalized sort of tear-jerker about parents and children. It is...

Letitia Wright in a scene from "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever."

‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ review: After T’Challa, a new protector, in an ungainly but engaging sequel

November 8, 2022 at 11:50 a.m.

A big, rangy Marvel follow-up — made without the grand presence of Chadwick Boseman, who died two years after "Black Panther" came out in 2018 — "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever"...

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