Oscar nominations are out for 2022. Read baiduhai reviews of some of the films By Staff Reports February 8, 2022 at 1:41 p.m. Nominations for the 94th Academy Awards have been announced. Here's everything you need to know...
Column: 2022 Oscar nominations are in — what the Academy got right, and what it got wrong By Michael Phillips February 8, 2022 at 1:48 p.m. If Netflix is the big dog in Hollywood now, then "The Power of the Dog"...
‘Moonfall’ review: The moon is about to kill us. Halle Berry can’t rescue this Roland Emmerich trip. By Michael Phillips February 4, 2022 at 10:41 a.m. Jazz great Slim Gaillard's interpretation of "How High the Moon" includes this existential pearl: "Everybody's...
‘Night’s End’ is a Chicago-made horror film from Jennifer Reeder and Brett Neveu — it streams in March on Shudder By Michael Phillips February 3, 2022 at 3:18 p.m. "Night's End," screenwriter and longtime Chicago playwright Brett Neveu's tale of a dicey exorcism performed...
Review: ‘Jackass Forever’ shows that the sublimely stupid is eternal By Katie Walsh February 2, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. The opening sequence of "Jackass Forever" is one you'll never forget. It's a piece of...
Movie review: ‘Worst Person in the World’ a love story that defies convention By Katie Walsh February 1, 2022 at 3:53 p.m. Throughout Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier's humanist, candid and melancholy Oslo-set romantic drama, "The Worst Person...
‘Compartment No. 6’ review: A train trip to the Arctic circle, and a lively clash of personalities, makes for an early 2022 movie highlight By Michael Phillips February 3, 2022 at 7:40 a.m. If a movie puts two strangers together in a new city, or en route to...
Coming soon: ‘Gaslight,’ ‘Fatal Attraction’ and more in Film Center’s ‘Bad Romance’ series. Plus: Facets celebrates Galentine’s Day! By Michael Phillips January 31, 2022 at 1:09 p.m. On the phone recently, Rebecca Fons was discussing the 1987 one-night-stand-like-hell-it-is thriller "Fatal Attraction," and...
For the first time in two years, the invaluable Chicago Film Society unveils a full season. What’s in store? By Michael Phillips January 28, 2022 at 5:00 a.m. This weekend, the cinephiles running the nonprofit Chicago Film Society embark on their first full...
Revisiting ‘The Conversation’: Why Coppola’s 1974 mystery gave Gene Hackman his most brilliant — and difficult — hours on screen By Michael Phillips January 27, 2022 at 6:10 p.m. Harry Caul and "The Conversation" are back, listening in on a new generation of rampant,...