Waterman is a vigorously beautiful and deeply rich exploration of one of America’s most overlooked heroes.
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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
While perhaps the best Fantastic Beasts film, The Secrets of Dumbledore remains a dour movie with lots to say but not enough imagination or understanding to say it well.
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Sound is the star of Memoria
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s latest is more elusive and even more enveloping than his other beguiling films.
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Father Stu
If we need a movie starring Mark Wahlberg and Mel Gibson about problematic men finding a redemption arc, this is certainly that movie.
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You Won’t Be Alone
The scary story uses succinct dialogue, a serene setting, and a striking score to create a poetic take on life, death, and the in-between
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The business of indie filmmaking with Coquie Hughes
She hasn’t let the hurdles of the industry stop her from creating.
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The 17th annual porn film festival is back in person
The long-running porn festival HUMP! Fest (organized by Chicago Reader sex columnist Dan Savage) made its way to the Music Box last weekend after being canceled last year.
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At the Siskel Center, Rogers Park is Tuesday’s star
Like the rest of us in 2020, film director Michael Glover Smith found his carefully laid plans laid to waste by a microscopic agent of chaos and destruction.
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Five electric films at PrideArts
This is the final of four curated weeks in the festival, and PrideArts finishes things off by showcasing touching connections, tragic losses, and lighthearted shenanigans in five short films.
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The Automat
In Lisa Hurwitz’s charming, informative film, the era of the Automat gleams anew, as everyone from Colin Powell to Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Brooks recall their appeal.
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The Contractor
In a crowded field of lone-man operators-against-the-world action films, The Contractor doesn’t do anything well enough to finish the job.
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Jump, Darling
Refreshingly, Phil Connell’s Jump, Darling breaks from many of the tropes we’ve come to expect from queer storylines.