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May 2022

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Jane Austen On a Gay Vacay: Joel Kim Booster and Andrew Ahn on Winning Fire Island Comedy

by Lee Shoquist
May 30, 2022

I recently caught up with Joel Kim Booster and Andrew Ahn to chat about Fire Island's laugh-out-loud humor, romantic heart and social critique.…

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Larger Than Life Cruise Soars in Top Gun: Maverick, The Quintessential Summer Movie

by Lee Shoquist
May 27, 2022

Top Gun: Maverick is both nostalgia and new, foremost a movie star tribute but equally compelling in both its cross-generational dynamics and sensationally thrilling aerial training and combat sequences.…

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It’s All Relative: Chicago Filmmaker Michael Glover Smith Examines Family at Crossroads

by Lee Shoquist
May 24, 2022

Smith has crafted a funny and wistful observance on coming to terms with the passage of time and life between parents, adult children and siblings.…

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The Trouble With Men: Jessie Buckley Elevates Garland’s (Too) Allegorical Thriller

by Lee Shoquist
May 20, 2022

Alex Garland’s latest head trip Men, starring Jessie Buckley as a haunted Londoner who retreats to the countryside following a personal trauma, begins strong and becomes less compelling as it resolves. This is mostly because Garland ultimately proves less interested in his feminine enigma…

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Timely Happening a Frightening Story of Restricted Choice and Personal Struggle

by Lee Shoquist
May 14, 2022

Bold, uncompromising and cautionary about the stark reality of where we are headed.…

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New Firestarter Fails to Combust in Tepid Update of King’s Daddy-Daughter Scorcher

by Lee Shoquist
May 14, 2022

Probably the less said about the pointless new Firestarter the better, a movie that makes its 1984 predecessor (which wasn’t one of the better movie adaptations of a Stephen King novel) look positively artful in comparison.…

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Hatching is a Stark Nightmare of Social, Body and Beneath the Bed Horrors

by Lee Shoquist
May 6, 2022

Smart and scary, Hatching is an impressive mash-up of social critique, body horror and monster movie, each equally effective.…

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Lee Shoquist is a film critic and member of the Chicago Film Critics Association and leads over 20 monthly film discussion groups with more than three hundred, multi-generational attendees across the Chicago area and periodically in New York and Los Angeles. Learn more or contact Lee.

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