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- Movies, Movie Review Dec 14, 2018
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In Shoplifters, the sharpest insights are blurred by sentimentality
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s film about an impoverished makeshift family won the Palme d’Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.
- Movies, Movie Review Dec 13, 2018
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This year’s Animation Show of Shows amuses more than astonishes
The 15 international selections use a variety of forms, from pencil to clay animation.
- Movies, Movie Review Nov 30, 2018
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Lee Chang-dong’s Burning demonstrates the perils of trying to adapt Haruki Murakami to the screen
The new Korean film feels like a stalemate between two master storytellers.
- Movies, Movie Review Nov 30, 2018
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The Favourite suggests the path to power in the early 18th century British royal household went right through the bedchamber
Is the monarch a queen or a pawn?
- Movies, Movie Review Nov 20, 2018
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Dovlatov and Outlaw King take pains to present the past as their audiences would prefer to see it
Two new Netflix releases show remarkable lapses in their directors’ good sense.
- Movies, Movie Review Nov 16, 2018
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The heist film Museo gives Alonso Ruizpalacios a showcase for his best camera tricks
Even after the story runs out, it’s still a joy to watch.
- Movies, Movie Review Nov 15, 2018
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald takes place in the Harry Potter universe, but it lacks the magic
Just because you can append more films to a bankable franchise doesn’t mean you should.
- Movies, Movie Review Nov 9, 2018
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Girl in the Spider’s Web uses past trauma as an excuse for further violence
The movie version of the first post-Stieg Larsson Lisbeth Salander novel forgets that its heroine is more than a victim.
- Movies, Movie Review Nov 1, 2018
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In his latest documentary, Monrovia, Indiana, Frederick Wiseman is curiously uninterested in the human inhabitants of a small town
The director has always been fascinated by processes, but this time the people behind them scarcely register.
- Movies, Movie Review Oct 25, 2018
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Director Tamara Jenkins returns with Private Life, a sharp and funny examination of infertility and art
A middle-aged couple wonders, If you don’t leave behind a child or a lasting piece of work, were you ever here at all?
- Movies, Movie Review Oct 25, 2018
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Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant make likably unlikable scoundrels in Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Marielle Heller’s new biopic tells the story of 1980s celebrity letters forger Lee Israel.
- Movies, Movie Review Oct 18, 2018
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Ike Barinholtz’s political satire The Oath is, above all, a provocation
A family is divided when the American president demands every citizen pledge their loyalty to him.
- Movies, Movie Review Oct 4, 2018
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Robert Greene’s documentary Bisbee ’17 explores the soul of a town haunted by its history
An Arizona community reenacts a century-old episode of monumental cruelty.
- Movies, Movie Review Sep 28, 2018
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The Irish American Movie Hooley shows off a wide range of storytelling from the Emerald Isle and beyond
From Belfast crooks to grieving New York widowers to Dublin peace activists
- Movies, Movie Review Sep 27, 2018
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In Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company, Jean-Luc Godard contemplates the transition from celluloid to video
Originally broadcast on French TV in 1986, it's having a rare Chicago screening at the Siskel Center.
- Movies, Movie Review Sep 27, 2018
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I Am Not a Witch signals the auspicious arrival of a fierce new talent, director Rungano Nyoni
A Zambian girl, falsely accused and imprisoned, refuses to be objectified or underestimated.
- Movies, Movie Review Sep 20, 2018
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This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman’s new film Life Itself works familiar territory—and tear ducts
But how does a complicated multigenerational tale with dramatic plot twists translate to the two-hour movie format?
- Movies, Movie Review Sep 13, 2018
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The Brazilian fantasy Good Manners confounds all expectations
Its wild plot twists speak to the inherent potential of the movies.
- Movies, Movie Review Sep 11, 2018
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Sociologist and filmmaker David Schalliol explains how he came to make his first documentary, The Area
"I want to meet people, understand a place, make connections, and produce work that has meaning and effect."
- Movies, Movie Review Sep 6, 2018
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The visually splendid School of Life follows an orphan’s immersion into the 1920s French countryside
Nicolas Vanier's latest film celebrates the flora and fauna of Sologne, the rural region of north-central France where he grew up.
- Movies, Movie Review Aug 29, 2018
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Art gets in the way of Madeline’s Madeline
The story of a 16-year-old and her experimental theater troupe is marred by the creative process of director Josephine Decker.
- Movies, Movie Review Aug 21, 2018
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The Wife’s a better conversation starter than a movie
Rethinking the idea of the male literary genius
- Movies, Movie Review Aug 16, 2018
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Araby follows the life and jobs of an itinerant Brazilian laborer
João Dumans and Affonso Uchoa’s film conjures up the vision of a working-class literary culture improbably thriving in the rootlessness of the 21st century.
- Movies, Movie Review Aug 8, 2018
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BlacKkKlansman retells the true story of a black cop who joined his local Klan chapter
Spike Lee’s latest is set in 1970, but it’s all about 2018.
- Movies, Movie Review Aug 2, 2018
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Black Harvest Film Festival fights to redefine Chicago's south and west sides
A trio of locally shot documentaries showcase resolute, civic-minded personalities