Jones does her best with what she has to work with, and the movie may still strike an emotional chord with viewers if they don’t look too closely.
Tag: To Kill a Mockingbird
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This bird has flown
Aaron Sorkin’s gonna Sorkin, even when he’s working off someone else’s material. In his new adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, now in a short touring stop with Broadway in Chicago, the creator of A Few Good Men, The American President, and The West Wing goes back to the courtyard drama/political grandstanding that […]
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Northbrook Public Library: The best Chicago revival house not actually in Chicago
Some of the choicest repertory cinema in the Chicagoland area screens in 35-millimeter at the NPL.
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In defense of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman
With her second book, Harper Lee may have finally put her foot down.
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Go Set a Watchman reads like a book no one should have ever been allowed to see
Go Set a Watchman isn’t a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, it’s an early draft—and it shows.
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Marja Mills’s The Mockingbird Next Door sings a sweet, empty song
The Mockingbird Next Door, Marja Mills’s book on Harper Lee, sings a sweet, empty song.
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On other roles in life that Joel Daly and Mary Mikva play
Did you know Joel Daly and Mary Mikva are also actors?
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Tripping your brains out on psychedelic cactus, so who needs the rest of this week’s screenings?
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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If it’s Broken, don’t fix it
Tim Roth stars in Broken, a British drama about three fragile families.
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Bless Me, Ultima; or, they do make them like they used to
Writer-director Carl Franklin takes a refreshingly old-fashioned approach in adapting Rudolfo Anaya’s acclaimed young adult novel
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To Kill a Mockingbird and the kindest cut
How a good Hollywood filmmaker uses a close-up of a child’s face