Review: ‘No Other Land’ is a heartbreaking Israeli-Palestinian filmmaking story
This superb collaboration between Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers has no U.S. distributor, but it's here in Chicago and not to be missed.
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‘You’re Cordially Invited’ review: Two weddings and a few laughs
Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell star in Nicholas Stoller's uneven comedy, which is saved by two ringers.
Column: A movie’s story exposition is a tricky thing. Consider how we learn what’s what in ‘Presence.’
Steven Soderbergh's "Presence" requires some initial audience disorientation. Mistake? If so, why do we miss David Lynch so much?
Chicago’s Facets film presenter turns 50 this year. What’s on deck, beyond a new name for itself?
The hardy nonprofit Facets Multimedia has been re-branded as Facets Film Forum, and 2025 continues its movie programming evolution.
Column: Architecture is having a movie moment — but do ‘Brutalist’ and ‘Megalopolis’ make architects more than pure ego?
“There’s no place for originality in architecture! Nobody can improve on the buildings of the past!” Those are the second and third lines spoken in the 1949 film version of...
‘I’m Still Here’ review: Life and disappearances under a brutal regime inform this Oscar-nominated Brazilian drama
Fresh off Oscar nominations for best picture, best actress and international feature, "I'm Still Here" is the kind of drama we need now.
Column: Did the Oscars just issue an executive order in support of ‘Emilia Pérez’?
The Oscars have never felt less important, with Los Angeles wildfires and other distractions. But if you look a little closer ...
‘Presence’ review: In a tense ghost story with Lucy Liu, a house is haunted through an unseen spirit’s eyes
By confining the camera perspective to the viewpoint of its unseen ghost, director Steven Soderbergh scores with a crafty thriller.
Appreciation: In David Lynch’s dreams, cinema cracked open a little wider
The filmmaker, a spellbinder with some genuine masterworks to his credit, leaves behind more than mere flourishes. And as he once said about himself, you don't have to be dark...
‘September 5’ review: The 1972 Olympics hostage crisis goes live, again, in a tense docudrama
Well-acted and tight, maybe to a fault, the docudrama “September 5” revisits the 1972 Olympics massacre in Munich in which 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team died, along with...