Historical dramas can be tricky; it’s hard to bring accuracy and authenticity while trying to captivate an audience. And where Chevalier succeeds with a decently entertaining story, it does falter slightly with the facts.
Category: Film
Review: Hilma
Watch the excellent 2019 documentary Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint, or better yet, just look at the paintings.
Review: Renfield
Get ready, because there’s yet another new take on Dracula. But no need to brace yourself, because Renfield feels surprisingly fresh.
Review: The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Don’t try to make these guys more real, because that was never the point.
Review: Tommy Guns
Carlos Conceição has created a smart, strange film that is disjointed because colonialism is a thing of disjointed desires, histories, and deaths.
Review: Air
Affleck’s return to the director’s chair is an exceptional success, stimulated by its script and cast.
Review: One True Loves
At its core, One True Loves isn’t really a zany screwball film. It’s a dramatic weeper with surprising heart.
Review: Spinning Gold
You might not know who Neil Bogart was, but you probably know the records he worked on.
Review: Tori and Lokita
Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne specialize in social realism, unwaveringly committed to their characters and craft, and Tori and Lokita is no exception.
Review: The Worst Ones
The line between fact and fiction always blurs when a camera is pointed at people, but in Lisa Akoka and Romane Gueret’s arresting new feature, it’s more like a game of three-card monte.
The Chicago Film Society fulfills tomorrow’s promises
“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.” —Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra Just three minutes into Edward Owens’s Autre Fois J’ai Aimé Une Femme (1966), the screen goes dark. It stays that way for […]
Review: El Jardín
It effectively highlights Chicago’s labor union history, and the struggles of a neighborhood and Chicagoans in general feel authentic and full of heart, especially to this part of the city.
The Harper Theater is putting up a fight
It’s an impressive venue, but can it survive the COVID-19 fallout and seismic shifts in movie-viewing preferences?