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‘Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris’ review: A 1950s Cinderella story returns for a little wish-fulfillment

July 14, 2022 at 1:56 p.m.

Neither hambone nor underplayer, Lesley Manville gives tremendous value for the money. Her classical chops, coupled with a shrewd improviser's wiles honed in the films of Mike Leigh, have elevated...

‘The Anarchists’ on HBO review: When freedom’s just another word for everything to lose

July 11, 2022 at 6:41 a.m.

There's no time like the present, and time heals all wounds (a stretch, but we'll go with it), but time waits for no one — not even the bro-heavy, bitcoin-crazed,...

Column: ‘Field of Dreams’ sounds good right now. A Ray Liotta movie tribute opens Friday at Siskel Center

July 8, 2022 at 11:56 a.m.

Update: Due to technical problems announced by the Siskel Film Center Friday, "Something Wild" is no longer part of the "Remembering Ray" programming. This story has been changed, including the...

James Caan, right, and Al Pacino in "The Godfather."

James Caan: A tough guy with range, from ‘Brian’s Song’ to Sonny Corleone and dozens more

July 7, 2022 at 5:50 p.m.

I remember the talk in the hallways at school the morning after ABC-TV reran "Brian's Song" sometime in the mid-'70s. Every kid who watched it, or caught it the first...

Actor Michael Shannon at the Peninsula Hotel in Chicago on Oct. 24, 2019.

Michael Shannon will direct ‘Eric LaRue,’ a film from Brett Neveu’s Chicago drama of what happens after a school shooting

July 6, 2022 at 1:22 p.m.

A 20-year-old Chicago drama about the aftermath of a school shooting, and its impact on the mother of the killer, goes before the cameras next month, marking the feature directorial...

Natalie Portman, left, and Chris Hemsworth in Marvel Studios' "Thor: Love and Thunder."

‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ review: Gods, goats, Hemsworth and Portman, as Marvel tests the limits of camp

July 5, 2022 at 12:39 p.m.

Twenty-nine films into the Marvel Cinematic Universe — a playful and flexible narrative arena in theory, too often a realm of granite solemnity in practice — if you can't mess...

Andrew Garfield as Jim Bakker, center, and Jessica Chastain as Tammy Faye Bakker in a scene from "The Eyes of Tammy Faye."

Column: When prosthetics get in the way of performance, what do you get? Tom Hanks in ‘Elvis’

July 1, 2022 at 5:30 a.m.

This column is not about trashing Tom Hanks in "Elvis." How Tom Hanks sounds in "Elvis" was very likely not up to Tom Hanks. Neither was the physical presentation of...

An inch-tall mollusk with a wise outlook on life takes the stage in "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On," voiced by co-writer and co-creator Jenny Slate.

‘Marcel the Shell With Shoes On’ review: I’m in love with a mollusk, the tiny hero in a most unexpected and welcome movie

June 30, 2022 at 11:46 a.m.

Marcel Proust had his memory-infused madeleines. Marcel Marceau had his invisible dog and a lifetime of pantomime. But it's unlikely we'll ever see a more beguiling Marcel than the inch-tall...

Patrick Swayze, as Johnny Castle, and Jennifer Grey, as Baby Houseman, in a scene from the 1987 film "Dirty Dancing" (Lionsgate Home Entertainment).

Column: With Roe v. Wade overturned, America returns to an era of criminalized abortions far worse than ‘Dirty Dancing’

June 27, 2022 at 9:02 a.m.

With the U.S. Supreme Court's 6-3 overruling of Roe v. Wade, eliminating a woman's constitutionally ensured right to a legal abortion, America has been presented with the trailer for the...

A forgotten 1983 travelogue ‘Here’s Chicago! The City of Dreams’ makes a comeback at the Music Box

June 23, 2022 at 12:50 p.m.

When I was nine my mom and I drove to Milwaukee (from Racine) to catch the "ultimate trip," "2001: A Space Odyssey." On our way home, seat-beltless in the back...

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