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Category: Film

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Waterman

by Maxwell Rabb April 15, 2022April 15, 2022

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

by Tiffany Babb April 15, 2022April 15, 2022

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

by Kathleen Sachs April 15, 2022April 15, 2022

Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s latest is more elusive and even more enveloping than his other beguiling films.

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Father Stu

by Adam Mullins-Khatib April 12, 2022April 12, 2022

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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Ambulance

by Adam Mullins-Khatib April 8, 2022April 8, 2022

Ambulance is a Michael Bay film to its core, an engine revved nearly beyond its limits.

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Cow

by Kathleen Sachs April 8, 2022April 8, 2022

The documentary from British writer-director Andrea Arnold conveys something similar to the splendor that radiates from the best of silent cinema.

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Morbius

by Catey Sullivan April 8, 2022April 12, 2022

If it were just a ride in a theme park, Morbius would be fun enough. But it is not.

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You Won’t Be Alone

by Becca James April 8, 2022April 8, 2022

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

by Janaya Greene April 6, 2022April 11, 2022

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

by S. Nicole Lane April 5, 2022April 7, 2022

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

by Catey Sullivan April 4, 2022April 5, 2022

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

by Brooks Eisenbise April 4, 2022April 4, 2022

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

by Catey Sullivan April 1, 2022March 31, 2022

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

by Adam Mullins-Khatib April 1, 2022March 31, 2022

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

by Brooks Eisenbise April 1, 2022March 31, 2022

Refreshingly, Phil Connell’s Jump, Darling breaks from many of the tropes we’ve come to expect from queer storylines.

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