Affleck’s return to the director’s chair is an exceptional success, stimulated by its script and cast.
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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.
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Review: Spinning Gold
You might not know who Neil Bogart was, but you probably know the records he worked on.
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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.
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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.
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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 […]
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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.
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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?
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Review: John Wick 4
You would think that by John Wick 4 the franchise would be tired and out of tricks—and you would be dead wrong.
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Review: Country Gold
It’s a little late in the day for a Garth Brooks parody, but Mickey Reece’s Country Gold is fully aware of its own obsolescence.
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Review: Shazam! Fury of the Gods
The first iteration contained some intriguing comedic explorations into what it means to have near-limitless power with a limited maturity level, and it seems like the creative team used up all their thoughts on it in the first go-round.
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Celebrating a decade of critically acclaimed film
Chicago film lovers will get the chance to mark off a massive chunk of their movie lists at the tenth annual Chicago Critics Film Festival (CCFF).
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Review: 65
65 is an old-fashioned B movie creature feature with a modern sci-fi feature budget.
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Review: Inside
An art thief breaks into a New York City penthouse and is unable to get back out.