Robert Pattinson shuts all his haters up with a vulnerable and terrifying performance in Matt Reeves’s The Batman.
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After Yang
Director Kogonada’s sophomore film explores a subtly futuristic world where artificial intelligence is commonplace.
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A quarter century of EU films
If a viewer can’t find something to catch their eye in this lineup, they’re not looking very hard.
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Rewriting the rules of journalism (with fire)
“They have found their way to work within a system that’s designed to exclude them.”
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Best shows to binge-watch in weed in 2021
The year 2021 was another great one for binge-watching weed content. We’ve seen some new series premiere as well as new seasons drop from old ones. Whether you’re into comedy, drama, or reality shows, you can find something that appeals to you in this rapidly expanding viewing category. Here are my recommendations: Chopped 420 A […]
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Best new curated streaming channel showcasing Black cinema
Subscribers to blacknuss.tv (available for $3.99 per month or $39.99 per year, with a seven-day free trial) have access to a wide array of content, including documentary, narrative, and experimental works, both short and feature length.
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Best unconventional horror drive-in screening
“Video Brain Blender” gave me an experience I couldn’t have replicated at home, and that’s exactly what I missed about going to the movies throughout the pandemic.
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Best Chicago representation in a groundbreaking music documentary
When the world, or the country, wants you dead and forgotten, making unforgettable living music is a kind of defiance. Every performer in Summer of Soul knows that. But no one puts it over with more force than Chicago’s Mahalia.
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Best footwork video displayed on Merchandise Mart
I generally avoided the Chicago Riverwalk even before the pandemic, but Footnotes gave me a genuinely great reason to spend a night gazing up at Merch Mart.
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Best fat daddy dom bitch on TV
Minxxx shows brightly with the kinky creativity, intention, and DIY spirit so unique to the Windy City’s gay underground.
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Best of Chicago 2021
We couldn’t have made this without you: the proud, opinionated, ballot-stuffing people of Chicago. Thank you for nominating and voting for your favorites. We get to celebrate what we love about living here. Of course there are also folks who are left out of the voting process, a gap that Reader staff and freelancers fill with impassioned essays.
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A celebration of Black filmmakers at Block Cinema
[The program] engages what it means to be a Black body . . . in ways both nimbly tactile and equivocally abstruse as only art can be, specifically vis-à-vis experimental film and video.
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Big Gold Brick
The effect is full disorientation, which feels refreshingly campy now and then, but bewilderingly out of touch the rest of the time.