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Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in "The Tragedy of Macbeth," Dec. 25 in theaters and streaming on Apple TV Jan. 14, 2022.

The Tribune’s Top 10 best movies of 2021: You haven’t heard of the year’s best film. I guarantee it.

December 10, 2021 at 9:50 a.m.

This is how the year went. It started with the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol: the most enraged, and enraging, nonfiction film of 2021, instantly reframed by competing 24-hour news...

Ariana DeBose as Anita, foreground left, and David Alvarez as Bernardo in "West Side Story."

‘West Side Story’ review: Steven Spielberg has crafted a vibrant Hollywood musical. In many ways it’s better than the ’61 movie version.

March 2, 2022 at 9:10 p.m.

Purists can relax, and put their smelling salts away. The vibrant new "West Side Story" hasn't been relocated. It's still a resident of Upper West Side Manhattan in the late...

Now on Disney Plus: Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story,’ in all its kinetic glory. THIS is how you direct a musical warhorse.

March 3, 2022 at 1:44 p.m.

Purists can relax, and put their smelling salts away. The vibrant new "West Side Story" hasn't been updated, or relocated. It's still a resident of Upper West Side Manhattan in...

In HBO’s ‘Landscapers,’ Olivia Colman and David Thewlis elevate a slight case of double murder

December 3, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

In "Landscapers," a true-crime four-parter premiering Dec. 6 on HBO, the happily married Edwards couple played by Olivia Colman and David Thewlis can't get their heads out of the 1952...

‘Bad Luck Banging’ review: At the Gene Siskel Film Center, a Romanian sex comedy for the COVID age

December 2, 2021 at 10:05 a.m.

The time: now. The place: Bucharest, Romania, amid a pandemic with wearily compliant mask-wearers on one side, and those who consider masks "the muzzle of slaves!" on the other. The...

A lost movie relic from Iran, found: ‘Chess of the Wind’ is this week only at the Music Box

December 1, 2021 at 1:03 p.m.

Chicago filmgoers have two more chances, 4 p.m. Dec. 1-2 at the Music Box Theatre, to catch a small miracle, back from the dead. In the annals of grimly received...

Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim talks with baiduhai theater critic Chris Jones at Symphony Center after winning the 2011 baiduhai Literary Prize.

Stephen Sondheim devoured cinema. Here’s how his movie love fed his own work, on stage and screen

November 29, 2021 at 8:10 a.m.

Stephen Sondheim fans all have their own benchmarks of discovery. First time I fell in love with an original Broadway cast album: age 14, maybe 15, "A Funny Thing Happened...

Cooper Hoffman and Alana Haim in a scene from "Licorice Pizza."

‘Licorice Pizza’ review: Coming-of-age odyssey is Paul Thomas Anderson’s ode to 1970s San Fernando Valley

December 1, 2021 at 2:35 p.m.

Gary Valentine is almost famous. This enterprising hustler parlays his demi-fame into a kind of accidental-on-purpose mystique, that of a 15-year-old LA whiz kid, with one foot in the Industry...

‘The Humans’ review: Stephen Karam’s hit play about an unsettling Thanksgiving is coming to Showtime, starring Amy Schumer and a table full of real humans

November 24, 2021 at 6:30 a.m.

Here's a nice surprise: a restrained, authoritative film version of a hit play that was just asking for trouble. "The Humans" marks playwright and screenwriter Stephen Karam's directorial debut. It...

Joaquin Phoenix, left, and Woody Norman in a scene from "C'mon C'mon."

‘C’mon C’mon’ review: Joaquin Phoenix stars in moving comedy-drama about an uncle-nephew odyssey across America

November 23, 2021 at 11:18 a.m.

It's not a holiday movie by most definitions. But "C'mon C'mon" makes for ideal holiday theatergoing, as long as going to a theater's in your pandemic wheelhouse. It'd be compatible...

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