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Black Harvest at the Film Center: Some films to see at the fall perennial, this time without co-founder Sergio Mims

November 4, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

The 28th Black Harvest Film Festival, Nov. 4-20 in person at the Gene Siskel Film Center, will not be like the previous 27. Co-founder and chief programmer Sergio Mims died...

Anne Hathaway, left, and Jeremy Strong in a scene from "Armageddon Time."

‘Armageddon Time’ review: Coming of age in Reagan’s America

November 3, 2022 at 10:20 a.m.

Filmmakers, the better ones, don't make movies about their childhoods because they know how they feel about what happened. They do it because they're trying to figure it out in...

Park Hae-il, left, and Tang Wei in a scene from "Decision to Leave."

‘Decision to Leave’ review: From South Korea, a dazzlingly confounding detective mystery

October 28, 2022 at 2:49 p.m.

World-weary detective falls for sphinx-like widow in a murder case. Talk about the usual suspects! We have seen this setup once or twice. But "Decision to Leave," director and co-writer...

Wendell, voiced by Keegan-Michael Key, left and Wild, voiced by Jordan Peele in a scene from "Wendell & Wild."

‘Wendell & Wild’ review: Key and Peele voice an animated Netflix tale of demons, Earthlings and … the evils of the prison industrial complex?

October 27, 2022 at 1:35 p.m.

Somehow, the marriage of two singular film talents has produced the least special work either has ever done. Streaming on Netflix Friday, the stop-motion animated feature "Wendell & Wild" comes...

Brendan Gleeson, left, and Colin Farrell in "The Banshees of Inisherin."

‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ review: A grudge match of an Irish Civil War pits Colin Farrell against Brendan Gleeson

October 27, 2022 at 11:35 a.m.

Friendships dissolve for a litany of reasons. Exasperation. Envy. Fallen scales from gradually or suddenly clearer eyes. Sometimes it's a last straw; sometimes, an entire bale of hay, parked in...

Chicago programmer and filmmaker Amir George named Kartemquin Films’ new artistic leader

October 25, 2022 at 7:53 p.m.

Next week, on Nov. 1, Chicago-based festival programmer, curator and filmmaker Amir George will begin his tenure as the second-ever artistic director of the nonprofit documentary film organization Kartemquin Films....

Clifford Davis, left, Edward Jones, center, and Theodore Roe (all seated) were found not guilty in the policy racket on Feb. 5, 1952 by Judge Wilbert F. Crowly in Chicago.

French filmmaker Harriet Marin Jones never knew her racketeering Chicago grandfather. She made ‘King of Kings’ to get the real story.

October 21, 2022 at 2:52 p.m.

Harriet Marin Jones never knew her grandfather; he died in 1964, a few years before his granddaughter was born, in Mexico, just before the U.S. Congress passed the Civil Rights...

A pair of exes (Julia Roberts and George Clooney) reunite, uneasily, for their daughter's wedding in Bali in "Ticket to Paradise."

‘Ticket to Paradise’ review: George Clooney and Julia Roberts are stuck going through the motions in Bali

October 20, 2022 at 11:09 a.m.

I like George Clooney, and I like Julia Roberts, and I like George Clooney with Julia Roberts. In the language of a romantic comedy, that means "versus" for most of...

Cate Blanchett stars in director Todd Field's portrait of a formidable conductor, "Tár."

So how well does Cate Blanchett handle a baton? A couple of critics hash out the personalities and classical music in ‘Tár’

October 20, 2022 at 9:19 a.m.

The new Cate Blanchett film "Tár" is no issue movie. It has, however, brought a lot of rarified and/or unfashionable issues back into the spotlight: symphony orchestra politics; the cost...

Danielle Deadwyler, left, and Jalyn Hall in a scene from "Till."

Column: The women behind the new movie ‘Till’ knew they had to show a mother living through the unbearable

October 14, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Now in theaters, "Till" is the story of a mother, a mother's son and the horrific 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Chicagoan Emmett Till, who was visiting relatives in Mississippi at...

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