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Ruth Negga, left, and Tessa Thompson in a scene from "Passing." The directorial debut by Rebecca Hall screens at the Music Box Theatre as part of the Chicago International Film Festival.

‘Passing’ and Chicago-set ‘Any Given Day’ among our top picks for Chicago Film Fest’s final week

October 19, 2021 at 1:02 p.m.

Quite a week! The Chicago Sky made basketball history, as the weather continues a winning streak of its own. Meantime, the Chicago International Film Festival concludes Sunday with in-person appearances...

Chicagoan Norman Malone during a sound check before his concert of Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand with the West Hartford Symphony Orchestra in 2016. Malone is the subject of the new documentary "For the Left Hand."

Our guide to Chicago International Film Fest: The 5 movies and events not to miss so far

October 14, 2021 at 5:18 p.m.

The 57th Chicago International Film Festival has left the building, at least in this respect: It's returning to a handful of outdoor screenings this year at Pilsen's ChiTown Movies drive-in....

Review: ‘Halloween Kills’ a gruesome waste of Jamie Lee Curtis’ time and yours

October 15, 2021 at 1:24 p.m.

O Haddonfield! My Haddonfield! Why, in the name of fictitious Illinois towns, have you resorted to hapless mob violence, like the pitchfork crowd in "Frankenstein" or the January Sixers that...

Timothee Chalamet and Lyna Khoudri in "The French Dispatch," opening this year's Chicago International Film Festival Oct. 13, 2021.

Chicago International Film Festival opens Wednesday on screens around town — call it a pandemic silver lining

October 12, 2021 at 7:00 a.m.

The 57th Chicago International Film Festival opens Wednesday. It'd be ridiculous to expect any annual cultural event to attempt a business-as-usual approach in the gums of a pandemic. For now,...

Coolest thing about James Bond? That theme music, first created for ‘Dr. No’ and a story of intrigue all its own

October 8, 2021 at 9:21 a.m.

Forget the license to kill. James Bond fanatics carry a license to argue about everything. Who's the best Bond? Well, Connery. Obviously. But Daniel Craig's a close second, many believe....

‘Lamb’ review: Woolly, low-keyed supernatural winner from Iceland is guided by ‘Dragon Tattoo’ star Noomi Rapace

October 5, 2021 at 1:02 p.m.

Blinding snow, heavy breathing from an unseen force: The first few seconds of "Lamb" suggests Liam Neeson has returned for another wintry exercise in human-on-human revenge. But no! There's nothing...

Daniel Craig takes Bond for a final spin in "No Time To Die."

‘No Time to Die’ review: Daniel Craig leads a fond Bond farewell, both nostalgic and grim

October 6, 2021 at 7:54 a.m.

As Robert Graves wrote when he was ridding himself of stultifying English conventions, a generation before Sir Ian Fleming created James Bond: Goodbye to all that. Watching the final Daniel...

Before its Broadway debut, ‘Diana: The Musical’ is on Netflix. It’s a royal pain.

October 1, 2021 at 3:53 p.m.

"Diana: The Musical" is a hunk of Wensleydale cheese now streaming on Netflix, and in this case the "r" in "streaming" is optional. Filmed onstage at New York's Longacre Theatre...

A long-lost silent movie turned up in a storage closet in Peoria and got its first screening this week in Chicago in almost a century. Next stop: Turner Classic Movies

October 1, 2021 at 8:31 a.m.

Wednesday night at the Gene Siskel Film Center, before a near-capacity crowd, director Edward Sedgwick's five-reel silent film "The First Degree" said hello again in first public appearance in 97...

Young Tony Soprano (Michael Gandolfini, left) finds an unreliable mentor in his "uncle" Dickie Moltisanti (Alessandro Nivola) in "The Many Saints of Newark."

‘Many Saints of Newark’ review: Tony Soprano meets Newark unrest in ’67, in a movie that’s both prequel and a story of its own

September 29, 2021 at 11:30 a.m.

"I try to be good," says Tony Soprano, Catholic high school slacker, numbers-racket enthusiast and future mob boss in "The Many Saints of Newark." Does he mean it? How hard...

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