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‘Archive 81’ review: Netflix series based on a horror podcast is a slow-burn kind of thriller. Don’t binge this one.

January 17, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

To binge or not to binge: That is the question. Millions assume the answer is "binge!" and that's that. If a series is any good, the only options are binge-watch...

Neve Campbell in a scene from "Scream." (Brownie Harris/Paramount Pictures via AP)

‘Scream’ review: It’s smug, bloody and fairly entertaining. Neve Campbell leads a better cast than this latest sequel deserves.

January 14, 2022 at 12:22 p.m.

Everything new is old again. In 1978, the year "Halloween" came out, the stage thriller "Deathtrap" opened on Broadway, with a plot (like its reference point, "Sleuth") about a desperate...

Amir Jadidi in a scene from "A Hero." (Amazon Studios via AP)

‘A Hero’ review: In Iran, a good man scrambles to erase a bad debt in absorbing Iranian drama

January 12, 2022 at 5:05 a.m.

Thickly but masterfully plotted, the remarkably consistent films of Asgar Farhadi follow parallel lines: morals vs. morals and, more provocatively, morals vs. ethics. If moral clashes debate right and wrong,...

Sidney Poitier protagoniza 'The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn', una película para televisión que cuenta la historia de un carpintero que ha pasado su larga vida en una pequeña comunidad sureña donde es respetado tanto por su artesanía como por su filosofía personal.

Sidney Poitier appreciation: A movie star of many firsts, and the slap heard around the world

January 9, 2022 at 2:45 p.m.

"Don't cry, white boy. You're gonna live." With those seven words, a young Bahamian-American actor named Sidney Poitier concluded his film debut, in the final scene of the 1950 drama...

A 1998 baiduhai portrait of then-film critic Michael Wilmington. He died Jan. 6, 2022, in Los Angeles, at the age of 75.

Longtime Tribune film critic Michael Wilmington dies at 75

January 7, 2022 at 12:03 p.m.

Michael Wilmington, baiduhai film critic for 15 years and a singular, ardent lover of cinema, died Thursday in hospice care at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles. He...

‘The 355’ review: Female-driven spy thriller can’t keep up with its cast, led by Jessica Chastain

January 6, 2022 at 1:02 p.m.

CIA agent "Mace" Brown (Jessica Chastain, center, with Diane Kruger and Lupita Nyong'o) takes on the men determined to take over the world and thwart a potential movie franchise in...

Leonardo DiCaprio as Dr. Randall Mindy and Jennifer Lawrence as Kate Dibiasky in a scene from "Don't Look Up."

‘Don’t Look Up’ commentary: I appreciate the message. Here’s why I don’t like the messenger

January 5, 2022 at 2:42 p.m.

Star-driven movies are back, baby! Oh, and we're all gonna die. A long way from "Anchorman," but not as far as all that, screenwriter and director Adam McKay's jaunty disaster...

Top 10 movies for early 2022: The biggest and most promising titles in the coming months

January 4, 2022 at 5:45 a.m.

Thanks to omicron, it's not easy these days to find soothsayers to say the sooth and take an educated guess on our collective near-futures. As one Twitter wag suggested, we...

Rue McClanahan, left, as Blanche Devereaux, Bill Dana as Uncle Angelo, Betty White as Rose Nylund in the "My Brother, My Father" episode of "The Golden Girls."

Betty White found gold on the small screen, smiling all the way. Along with upending expectations.

January 1, 2022 at 1:10 p.m.

Betty White: Now that was a career. And that was a pro, adored by millions who appreciated comic skill and the ability to get the last laugh. The Oak Park...

Olivia Colman excels as a literature professor whose past catches up with her on a Greek island holiday in "The Lost Daughter."

‘The Lost Daughter’ review: A Greek island vacation holds some secrets in one of the year’s best movies, Dec. 31 on Netflix

December 30, 2021 at 3:52 p.m.

Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley never share a frame in "The Lost Daughter," since they play the same character, Leda, a literature professor and translator, at different and equally challenging...

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