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Noomi Rapace plays a villager who runs afoul of a witch in "You Won't Be Alone."

Review: ‘You Won’t Be Alone’ is a ruminative tale of witchcraft and the joys of being alive — it won’t be for everyone

March 30, 2022 at 12:48 p.m.

"What a piece of work is man!" Neither of the ravenous witches in "You Won't Be Alone" actually quote Shakespeare, but that astonished sentiment informs every beat of first-time feature...

Screenwriter Graham Moore at The Peninsula Chicago on March 10, 2022, in Chicago.

How Chicago-bred filmmaker Graham Moore turned his grandfather’s brush with the mob into ‘The Outfit’

March 30, 2022 at 5:15 a.m.

Graham Moore is 40, a relatively new husband (married in 2019), an even newer father (son born in 2021), an Academy Award winner (for his screenplay "The Imitation Game") and...

Co-host Amy Schumer, Jesse Plemons, and Kirsten Dunst are seen during the 94th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on March 27, 2022 in Hollywood, California.

Column: Will Smith leaves this year’s Oscars audience shaken, rattled and as divided as ever. So much for escapism.

March 28, 2022 at 5:10 p.m.

"The Academy does not condone violence in any form." This is the response we heard from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, immediately following Sunday's inciting incident: Will...

Walker Scobell, left, and Ryan Reynolds in a scene from "The Adam Project."

‘The Adam Project’ review: A time traveler’s 12-year-old self saves the world, with help from Ryan Reynolds

March 10, 2022 at 5:30 a.m.

I like Ryan Reynolds. He's fun. He has uniquely quick-witted comic timing, an extremely useful secret weapon for a movie star built for action heroism with a side order of...

Column: ‘Let the Little Light Shine,’ the Chicago documentary about race, education, politics and dissent, electrifies True/False Film Fest

March 9, 2022 at 12:39 p.m.

This past weekend, the world premiere of a sensationally effective Chicago documentary tore the roof clean off three different theaters at the 2022 True/False Film Fest. "Let the Little Light...

A 13-year-old Toronto girl (voiced by Rosalie Chiang) takes center stage, along with her inner giant panda, in Pixar's "Turning Red."

‘Turning Red’ review: Raging hormones turn a girl into a panda in Pixar’s imaginative latest

March 9, 2022 at 10:34 a.m.

"Turning Red" asserts the value of a metaphor signifying more than one thing. With any story centered on a 13-year-old's multidirectional hormones in the sweaty grip of puberty, anything less...

Column: Facets tribute has films with Sidney Poitier at the top of his career, including ‘In the Heat of the Night’

March 4, 2022 at 5:20 a.m.

Sidney Poitier has been gone for two months now. But the actor, director, activist and superstar will continue to astonish and illuminate, thanks to the work he left behind and...

‘The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey’ review: Samuel L. Jackson stars in a tale of secrets and buried treasure

March 3, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

For a conspicuously busy superstar such as Samuel L. Jackson, the six-part Apple TV+ adaptation of Walter Mosley's "The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey" demanded his largest, deepest commitment to...

Colin Farrell, from left, Jodie Turner-Smith, Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja and Justin H. Min in a scene from "After Yang."

‘After Yang’ review: Showtime’s exquisite bit of futurism with Colin Farrell asks what androids really dream of

March 6, 2022 at 1:05 p.m.

They're known as "techno-sapiens." In order to raise their adopted Chinese daughter, a struggling Anglo tea shop owner and a Black businesswoman — married but growing ever-more-faintly distant from each...

Zoe Kravitz, left, and Robert Pattinson in a scene from "The Batman."

‘The Batman’ review: Dark, reckless and well paired with Catwoman, this is the best since ‘Dark Knight’

March 1, 2022 at 8:56 a.m.

Just when you've had it with Gotham City, caped crusaders and the whole murked-up franchise, along comes a good Batman movie — easily the best since "The Dark Knight" 14...

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