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June 2022

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Delightful Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is a Poignant Summer Surprise for all Ages

by Lee Shoquist
June 28, 2022

Jenny Slate triumphs in a winning performance as a diminutive and unlikely hero contemplating life, community and finding a place in the world.…

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Cinema Chicago Summer Screening: ChicagoFilm to host PEACE BY CHOCOLATE Q&A at Chicago History Museum on 6/28

by Lee Shoquist
June 27, 2022

Refugees, the immigrant's dream, parents and adult children, exceptional small town values and...chocolate. Please join ChicagoFilm and Cinema Chicago for a special in-person screening and post-film Q&A with director Jonathan Keijser.…

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Entertaining Elvis a Showcase for Sensational Austin Butler, Triumphing Over Spastically Directed Opus

by Lee Shoquist
June 24, 2022

In a movie cage fight between director and actor, Baz Luhrmann tries very hard—and nearly succeeds—at minimizing star Austin Butler’s dazzling turn as The King of rock-n-roll in Elvis, a wildly overdetermined and largely superficial collection of gee-whiz film techniques masquerading as a biopic…

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Frank, Insightful Leo Grande: Adult Sexuality and Awakening Courtesy of a Richly Rewarding Emma Thompson

by Lee Shoquist
June 21, 2022

An incisive, bold adult drama about aging and sexuality, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande finds Emma Thompson in top form as widowed former educator soliciting the services of a young sex worker in a bid toward enlightenment—initially a physical pursuit but ultimately yielding…

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Jurassic World: Dominion is Big, Loud, Overstuffed…and (Slightly) Better Than You’ve Heard

by Lee Shoquist
June 9, 2022

Jurassic World: Dominion, the sixth film in a bloated series that lost its magic about five films ago yet continues barreling ahead, believing there is still wonder in seeing photorealistic dinosaurs onscreen (which hasn’t truly been the case since Steven Spielberg’s 1993 original), certainly…

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Crimes of the Future—Dystopian Nightmare a Minor Entry in Cronenberg’s Genius Canon

by Lee Shoquist
June 7, 2022

David Cronenberg's latest provocation, about a dystopian world where humans feel no pain, somatic mutations reign and surgical procedures are aphrodisiacal performance art, finds the Canadian auteur comfortably in his wheelhouse of envelope-pushing body horror, visionary sci-fi and icy social critique.…

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Paranoia, Murder and Gaslighting in a Diabolical Watcher, the Year’s Best Thriller

by Lee Shoquist
June 3, 2022

Voyeurism, stalking and murder in style—suspenseful Watcher ratchets up taut tension as elegant exercise in paranoia that pays homage to classic suspense with a modern twist.…

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About Me

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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