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Home » Laura Dern

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a scared-looking white redheaded woman chin-deep in a swamp, with massive dinosaur legs behind her
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Jurassic World: Dominion

by Adam Mullins-Khatib June 16, 2022June 16, 2022

While there’s never really a sense of true danger for our heroes, we get just enough of the range of CGI dinosaurs and their weird traits to keep the film entertaining.

Posted inFilm

Greta Gerwig celebrates feminism with Little Women

by Danielle Gensburg December 20, 2019August 18, 2021

The latest adaptation gives the March sisters more power than ever.

Posted inFilm

Marriage Story doesn’t pick sides

by Marissa De La Cerda November 20, 2019August 18, 2021

Noah Baumbach’s latest film about divorce shows both parents not as enemies but as humans

Posted inFilm

Ray Kroc is a fast-food evangelist in The Founder

by J.R. Jones January 25, 2017August 18, 2021

Michael Keaton stars in this biopic of the man who made McDonald’s.

Posted inFilm

With Certain Women, writer-director Kelly Reichardt heads for Montana—and loses her way

by J.R. Jones October 21, 2016August 18, 2021

With Certain Women, writer-director Kelly Reichardt heads for Montana—and loses her way.

Posted inFilm

Ten best bets for fall movies

by Chicago Reader September 7, 2016August 18, 2021

Oliver Stone tells the Snowden story, Nate Parker tells the Nat Turner story, and Ewan McGregor tries to tell Philip Roth’s story, plus other highlights.

Posted inFilm

Ramin Bahrani returns with 99 Homes, one of the best films of the year

by J.R. Jones October 1, 2015August 18, 2021

Michael Shannon and Andrew Garfield star in this brutal examination of the subprime mortgage meltdown.

Posted inFilm

Michael Shannon is a ruthless real estate broker in Ramin Bahrani’s 99 Homes

by J.R. Jones September 9, 2015August 18, 2021

Iranian-American filmmaker Ramin Bahrani has emerged as our answer to the Dardenne brothers, a proven storyteller with a deep loyalty to the underclass. Man Push Cart (2005) told of a Pakistani rock singer reduced to peddling coffee and bagels on the streets of Manhattan; Chop Shop (2007) focused on two Puerto Rican siblings scavenging metal […]

Posted inBlogs

In Wild, Laura Dern and Reese Witherspoon play characters with a unique mother-daughter bond

by Zara Yost February 4, 2015August 18, 2021

A mother and daughter, separated by a generation of feminist thought.

Posted inBlogs

Young love, old bones, and the rest of this week’s screenings

by J.R. Jones August 22, 2014August 18, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue

Posted inBlogs

What do you get when you take the dinosaurs out of Jurassic Park?

by Ben Sachs April 24, 2013August 19, 2021

Comparing the Steven Spielberg blockbuster, currently playing in a new 3-D version, to Uncle Vanya and the classic Polish drama The Structure of Crystals

Posted inBlogs

Ave atque vale

by Pat Graham July 31, 2007August 19, 2021

A view to a death … then suddenly another.

Posted inBlogs

Lost, lost, lost …

by Pat Graham February 12, 2007August 19, 2021

If you’re still puzzling over Laura Dern’s performance in Inland Empire, rest assured that she is too.

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