It’s easy to appreciate the picture’s pointed satirical declarations about the movie industry: that people of color are often cast to the wayside in a white dominated industry, that today's dependence on digital movie technology should be discarded in favor of traditional shot-on-film cameras,…
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The great Leslie Manville headlines a loving picture suggesting the impact that a simple person of good values and compassion can make in the world, in unexpected ways, unlikely places and with people from different realms who share the same values.…
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I caught up with Hannah Marks and Mia Isaac for a chat on the film’s multiple, ambitious agendas and their enthusiasm about their futures, which appear limitless, in the American movie industry.…
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It is difficult to believe that only two short years ago theatrical exhibition was writing its obituary during lockdowns as studios pulled or postponed their theatrical slates in favor of new distribution models, premiering first-run pictures simultaneously, or altogether, on streaming platforms and radically…
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The extent to which one enjoys Thor: Love and Thunder, will depend upon a tolerance for an overplayed hand of wink-wink, nudge-nudge so broad as to suggest that hundreds of millions of dollars were spent aspiring to little else than a trivial wank.…
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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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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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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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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, 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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