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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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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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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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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