‘Blonde’ review: Showbiz is a girl’s worst friend in Netflix’s oppressive Marilyn Monroe nightmare
Andrew Dominik's "Blonde," streaming on Netflix on Sept. 28, is meant to be a tough...
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‘The Woman King’ review: Viola Davis, of course. But she’s not alone in this stirring action epic.
Everything good, a little less good and very good about "The Woman King" hits the...
Kathryn ‘WandaVision’ Hahn, ‘Empire of Light’ and others at Chicago International Film Festival
Starting with a Southport Avenue block party (food trucks!) for the Oct. 12 opening night,...
Jean-Luc Godard appreciation: ‘I want to know the future. Don’t you?’
"At the cinema, we do not think, we are thought," wrote the 19-year-old critic and...
Jean-Luc Godard, French New Wave director, dead at 91
Jean-Luc Godard, the ingenious "enfant terrible" of the French New Wave who revolutionized popular cinema...
Steve James’ ‘A Compassionate Spy,’ about a UChicago physicist who leaked nuclear secrets to the Soviets, premieres at Venice and Telluride
"This is kind of like: whoa." And that's Chicago documentary filmmaker Steve James' deadpan monosyllable...
Report from 2022 Venice Film Festival: Cate Blanchett excels in “Tár,” while ‘White Noise’ and ‘Bardo’ struggle as much as their characters
When we meet the imperious, exacting maestro played with thrilling command by Cate Blanchett in...
Review: WWII action flick ‘Burial’ is also packed with weighty philosophical questions
As the horrors of World War II continue to resonate throughout our collective memory, writer/director...
‘Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul’: Talking church, Randall and naked torsos with Regina Hall and Sterling K. Brown
There's dancing, posing, styling and profiling, as well as the search for redemption in this...
Top movies for fall 2022: Our 15 picks, including the much awaited ‘Wakanda Forever’
Right now there's enough debt, toil and trouble afoot to upend the film and streaming...