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Posted inFilm

The Duke

by Dmitry Samarov April 22, 2022April 22, 2022

If this all sounds like a fanciful shaggy dog story, it certainly plays like one, but it’s based on a factual story (in proof number infinity that truth is stranger than fiction).

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The new horror film Winchester is a missed opportunity

by Ben Sachs February 6, 2018August 18, 2021

The Spierig brothers’ latest is a major disappointment after Predestination

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Michael Powell’s last film, Age of Consent, features a young Helen Mirren

by Ben Sachs September 9, 2015August 18, 2021

Shot in luscious color around the Great Barrier Reef, the final feature (1969) by British director Michael Powell (who with Emeric Pressburger codirected such classics as The Red Shoes and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp) returns to Chicago in a 35-millimeter print. James Mason stars as a frustrated artist who moves to a […]

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Sentimental treatments of modern art and Judaism invade movie theaters

by Ben Sachs April 14, 2015August 18, 2021

Considering the thematic overlap of a couple recent “feel-good” releases

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The year’s best movie (so far), plus more new reviews and notable screenings

by J.R. Jones April 3, 2015August 18, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue

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Show us your Ibsen, and the rest of this week’s screenings

by J.R. Jones August 8, 2014August 18, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue

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Remembering Dennis Potter’s Blue Remembered Hills

by Ben Sachs October 3, 2013August 19, 2021

Revisiting the 1979 BBC teleplay in light of I Declare War, the recent Canadian feature playing at Facets Multimedia

The Butler
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The Butler: The anti-Gump

by Ben Sachs August 21, 2013August 19, 2021

In Lee Daniels’s The Butler, painful social realities collide with delirious fantasy.

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A decade under the influence of terrible movies

by J.R. Jones November 20, 2012August 19, 2021

The ten biggest turkeys I’ve reviewed

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Julie Taymor’s “Tempest”

by Ed M. Koziarski October 17, 2010August 19, 2021

Helen Mirren conjures Julie Taymor’s “Tempest” Monday at the Chicago International Film Festival.

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This Week’s Movie Action

by J.R. Jones October 14, 2010August 19, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue.

Emily Blunt in The Young Victoria
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When Princesses Grow Up

by J.R. Jones December 17, 2009August 19, 2021

The Young Victoria puts a reality check on the Disney fantasy.

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Helen Mirren’s Phedre at Steppenwolf

by Albert Williams June 5, 2009August 19, 2021

The National Theatre’s production of Racine’s tragedy comes to Chicago–on screen.

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Right performer, wrong film

by Pat Graham January 16, 2007August 19, 2021

Meryl Streep wins another Golden Globe–but not for the role she should have.

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