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From left, Mj Rodriguez as Blanca, Billy Porter as Pray Tell and Angel Bismark Curiel as Lil Papi in Pose.

‘Girls5eva’ review: Where the pacing’s as tight as the harmonies, and ’30 Rock’ meets ‘Kimmy Schmidt’ with Sara Bareilles, Busy Philipps

May 19, 2021 at 12:33 p.m.

Sometimes you just want a lot of jokes in a hurry — inside jokes, outside jokes, sight gags involving huge bowls of airborne salad, sound gags involving musical interludes pulled...

‘Woman in the Window’ review: Amy Adams comes down with a bad case of ‘Rear Window’-itis

May 14, 2021 at 2:57 p.m.

Everything has a chance to go wrong with a movie long before the actors show up. The latest proof of this truth just plipped, like a wee pebble, into the...

What to watch: Catch up on ‘Pose’ and ‘This Is Us’ before the series come to an end

May 14, 2021 at 7:00 a.m.

Wondering what to watch this week? Check out our weekly film and TV recommendations. We want to know what you're streaming, too. Click here to share your picks with us....

‘The Underground Railroad’ review: Hypnotic, stunning reimagining of America’s roots

May 14, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

After so much settling these past 14 months, so much time spent with nervous diversion on our screens and so much grief and rage coursing through the nation's bloodstream, the...

Angelina Jolie and Finn Little risk a jump off a forest watch tower in "Those Who Wish Me Dead."

Review: Angelina Jolie fights fire with fire in ‘Those Who Wish Me Dead’

May 14, 2021 at 3:01 p.m.

The Angelina Jolie raging-inferno/raging-assassins mashup "Those Who Wish Me Dead" is stuck with a title (from Michael Koryta's 2014 novel) daring you to recall it correctly the next day, and...

A scene from "In the Heights" and a steak jibarito from Jibaritos y Mas ($7.85)

Watch this. Eat that: Watching ‘Mare of Easttown’? Get Chicago’s take on the hoagie

May 13, 2021 at 12:01 p.m.

Watch this: 'Mare of Easttown' Watching Kate Winslet, Jean Smart and company knock back the Yuengling lagers, brandish the spray cheese and generally adhere to the Philadelphia environs food pyramid...

Musician Sly Stone is featured in "Summer of Soul," featuring rare footage of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival and performances by Mavis Staples, Stevie Wonder, The 5th Dimension and more. The concert film opens Chicago's Doc10 film festival June 17.

Questlove’s ‘Summer of Soul’ leads lineup for Doc10, the first Chicago 2021 film festival to venture back indoors

May 12, 2021 at 7:44 a.m.

"I don't know about you, but I don't want to attend another virtual film festival," says senior programmer Anthony Kaufman of DOC10, the first of the 2021 Chicago film festivals...

What to watch: Catch up on ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ or start the new Star Wars series ‘The Bad Batch’

May 7, 2021 at 7:00 a.m.

Wondering what to watch this week? Check out our weekly film and TV recommendations. We want to know what you're streaming, too. Click here to share your picks with us....

Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron in a scene from the movie 'An American In Paris, 1951.

10 movies for Mother’s Day: My mom says you should spend it with Gene Kelly. My wife votes ‘One Day at a Time.’

May 7, 2021 at 4:42 p.m.

So many movies; so many mothers. We look to our screen mothers for every kind of human experience. The ones who win Oscars tend to embody the fiercest sort of...

CineYouth Festival: New Chicago filmmakers featured in worldwide showcase

May 12, 2021 at 7:44 a.m.

The Black teenager played by Dre Marquis wears a hoodie, and the director of the short film "71 Seconds," Jazmin Bryant, knows exactly what that hoodie has come to signify...

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