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June 2025

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All Revved Up, Nowhere to Go: Brad Pitt’s F1 Races Fast Cars Against Flat Script

by Lee Shoquist
June 26, 2025

F1, the thunderous (read: loud) new Brad Pitt racing movie, is really two vehicles—one built for its star, the other for the track. It performs better in the first lane. Director Joseph Kosinski, who launched Top Gun: Maverick to a $1.5 billion global box office and…

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Celine Song’s MATERIALISTS: A Matchmaker’s Dilemma Makes for Rumination on Love, Risk and What We’re Worth

by Lee Shoquist
June 13, 2025

After the glowing reception for her Oscar-nominated 2023 debut Past Lives, Celine Song could have easily followed up with a crowd-pleasing hit that “checks all the boxes”—a phrase her new film, Materialists, uses not-so-ironically to describe the modern partner checklist. Funny? Check. Smart? Check.…

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From Swan Lake to Scorched Earth: Ana de Armas Brings Ballerina B-Movie Fun

by Lee Shoquist
June 7, 2025

Ballerina, in which Ana de Armas spends two hours enthusiastically handing out and receiving beatdowns, is hitting theaters with a jumbo official title: From the World of John Wick: Ballerina. Given its reportedly chaotic production of delays, reshoots and budget overruns, you can hardly…

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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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