Josh Kahn film ‘Devonte’ shows pressure Chicago athletes face on and off the field in Slamdance Film Festival entry By Darcel Rockett January 27, 2022 at 1:36 p.m. It's not easy to get the highs and lows of being a professional athlete encapsulated...
Review: Adrien Brody’s revenge thriller ‘Clean’ could use some tidying By Katie Walsh January 26, 2022 at 1:40 p.m. The gritty indie revenge thriller "Clean" is clearly a labor of love for Adrien Brody....
Review: ‘A Taste of Hunger’ is a foodie movie with plenty of heat By Katie Walsh January 25, 2022 at 12:10 p.m. In Danish filmmaker Christoffer Boe's foodie drama "A Taste of Hunger," the world of fine...
‘France’ review: Léa Seydoux plays a lost soul of French TV journalism By Michael Phillips January 21, 2022 at 5:15 a.m. Continuing its gently rug-pulling ways through Jan. 27 at the Gene Siskel Film Center, writer-director...
‘The Velvet Queen’ review: In the Tibetan mountains, a French wildlife photographer tracks a special kind of cat By Michael Phillips January 20, 2022 at 5:00 a.m. Beautiful if surprisingly gabby, the nature documentary "The Velvet Queen" (opening Friday at the Music...
Column: If you don’t know the silent films of Buster Keaton, you’re missing out. A movie critic remembers an early favorite. By Michael Phillips January 21, 2022 at 12:47 p.m. At some point in my childhood, there it was: My first Buster Keaton. Was he...
Remembering Buster Keaton By Contributed Content January 18, 2022 at 7:39 p.m. Remembering the silent film star Buster Keaton, the subject of two new books.
Movie review: No cinematic shine in ‘Redeeming Love,’ set in Gold Rush-era California By Katie Walsh January 18, 2022 at 12:47 p.m. D.J. Caruso's historical drama/romance/morality play "Redeeming Love" opens with the Shakespeare quote "all that glitters...
‘Archive 81’ review: Netflix series based on a horror podcast is a slow-burn kind of thriller. Don’t binge this one. By Michael Phillips January 17, 2022 at 5:00 a.m. To binge or not to binge: That is the question. Millions assume the answer is...
‘Scream’ review: It’s smug, bloody and fairly entertaining. Neve Campbell leads a better cast than this latest sequel deserves. By Michael Phillips January 14, 2022 at 12:22 p.m. Everything new is old again. In 1978, the year "Halloween" came out, the stage thriller...