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Anthony Kaufman, Doc10 co-founder and programmer, at home in Evanston on April 18, 2025. The all-documentary film festival will feature 10 titles from around the world. (Audrey Richardson/baiduhai)

Column: Doc10’s Anthony Kaufman on the perils facing documentary film — and why it’ll survive

April 24, 2025 at 10:29 a.m.

From the Ukraine front lines to a Chinese "mistress dispeller," the films in this year's Doc10 fest in Chicago cast a wide net.

Jon Bernthal and Ben Affleck return for the eight-years-later sequel "The Accountant 2." (Warrick Page/MGM/Amazon Studios)

‘Accountant 2’ review: Ben Affleck’s back in a human trafficking sequel where guns beat spreadsheets

April 24, 2025 at 4:10 p.m.

To get along like they mean it, the estranged brothers played by Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal in “The Accountant 2” learn by doing. What they learn is that most...

A moment, captured sometime in the early 1970s in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts, from "Killer of Sheep." (Milestone Films)

Review: ‘Killer of Sheep,’ a poetic-realist masterwork, returns sharper than ever

April 18, 2025 at 11:45 a.m.

Charles Burnett's gently astonishing movie tells the stories of the people he knew in his Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts in the 1970s. It's at the Gene Siskel Film Center...

Colin Bliss and Greta Scheing in "Secret Mall Apartment," a documentary about displaced artists living in the bowels of a Rhode Island mall for four years. (Wheelhouse Creative)

‘Secret Mall Apartment’ review: When an extra-special shopping trip lasts 4 years

April 17, 2025 at 10:33 a.m.

Effortlessly weaving together urban renewal debates and the DIY artistic spirit, Jeremy Workman's "Secret Mall Apartment" scores.

Chicago bootleggers and identical twins Smoke and Stack, played by Michael B. Jordan, return home to Mississippi in Ryan Coogler's "Sinners." (Warner Bros. Pictures)

‘Sinners’ review: In Ryan Coogler’s juicy mashup, a pair of Michael B. Jordans dance with the devil

April 16, 2025 at 8:09 a.m.

With "Sinners," filmmaker Ryan Coogler creates a big, flawed, juicy blues folktale of Black enterprise vs. vampires, literal and figurative.

Meghann Fahy as Violet in the thriller "Drop." (Universal Pictures)

‘Drop’ review: We’ll start with the death threats, and two glasses of the Malbec

April 10, 2025 at 3:31 p.m.

Led by Meghann Fahy, the gleefully improbable "Drop" puts its first-date heroine through hell, right down to a comic-relief waiter.

Charles Melton (center) co-stars in "Warfare," based on co-writer and co-director Ray Mendoza's Iraq war experience as a U.S. Navy SEAL. (A24)

Column: Can a war film evoke the authentic chaos of combat? The makers of ‘Warfare’ made it their mission.

April 10, 2025 at 5:15 a.m.

"Warfare" co-writers and co-directors Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza talk about how they threw out the usual Hollywood touches and went only for veracity.

Rami Malek as CIA cryptologist Charlie Heller in "The Amateur." (John Wilson/20th Century Studios)

‘The Amateur’ review: An analog ’80s spy tale gets a wobbly update starring Rami Malek

April 10, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

Can a reclusive CIA cryptologist learn to kill and avenge his wife's murder? "The Amateur" starring Rami Malek shrugs and nods.

Will Poulter as a Navy SEAL caught up in a tense skirmish with Al Qaeda insurgents in "Warfare." (A24)

Review: ‘Warfare’ is the war movie we need, without the false assurances

April 9, 2025 at 1:15 p.m.

Based on collaborator Ray Mendoza's memories of a 2006 Iraq war skirmish, "Warfare" takes filmmaker Alex Garland into a new realm.

Paulina Bernini in "Memories of a Burning Body." (Bendita Film Sales)

Chicago Latino Film Festival opens this weekend, with indelible ‘Memories’ and a multitude of stories

April 3, 2025 at 3:31 p.m.

In "Memories of a Burning Body," featured in the 41st Chicago Latino Film Festival, several women's stories become one.

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