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- 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
- Movies, Movie Review Jul 30, 2018
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Northbrook Public Library: The best Chicago revival house not actually in Chicago
Some of the choicest repertory cinema in the Chicagoland area screens in 35-millimeter at the NPL.
- Movies, Movie Review Jul 25, 2018
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‘Welcome to Castle Rock’ proves there’s no formula for adapting a Stephen King novel
Music Box and Consequence of Sound present a weekend festival of King chillers.
- Movies, Movie Review Jul 25, 2018
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‘Afro-Futurism Short Films’ dips into the cultural wellspring that fed Black Panther
Floyd Web of Black World Cinema curated this program of African-themed sci-fi and fantasy
- Movies, Movie Review Jul 24, 2018
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Eighth Grade: Social media, but no social life
In Bo Burnham's indie comedy, online culture becomes a breeding ground for teenage anxiety.
- Movies, Movie Review Jul 19, 2018
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Blindspotting and Sorry to Bother You expose the class tensions often obscured by race
Two of the year’s best movies come rocketing out of Oakland, California.
- Movies, Movie Review Jul 19, 2018
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In the silent classic The Lighthouse Keepers, styles and emotions come crashing in like waves
Jean Gremilion directed this eclectic French tale of a lightouse keeper and his half-mad son.
- Movies, Movie Review Jul 12, 2018
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Hong Sang-soo and Kim Min-hee's real-life affair yields a trio of films about infidelity
The South Korean director and his actress lover are back with The Day After
- Movies, Movie Review Jul 11, 2018
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Leave No Trace approaches homelessness on the most intimate terms
Ben Foster stars as a traumatized war vet living off the grid with his 13-year-old daughter.
- Movies, Movie Review Jul 6, 2018
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Lesbian revolutionaries smash sexual taboos to undermine the patriarchy in Bruce LaBruce's The Misandrists
Luckily for the patriarchy, their plan for world domination involves making porn movies.
- Movies, Movie Review Jul 5, 2018
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Triplets ripped from family in a Nazi-like experiment, probed in Three Identical Strangers
This true story of brothers separated at birth in the name of science hits like a thunderbolt
- Movies, Movie Review Jun 29, 2018
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Incredibles 2 : Who’s afraid of the superpowered woman?
Elastigirl does all the stretching in this sequel to the Pixar mega-hit.
- Movies, Movie Review Jun 28, 2018
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Music is the connecting tissue in the indie drama Hearts Beat Loud, starring Nick Offerman
Offerman stars as a record store owner dreading his daughter’s departure for college in Brett Haley's new film.
- Movies, Movie Review Jun 27, 2018
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A government official's child rape is swept under the rug in Angels Wear White
Vivan Qu directed this tense Chinese thriller about the powerful and the powerless
- Movies, Movie Review Jun 21, 2018
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Superfly rolls back the clock on African-American movie heroes
Cocaine dealer Youngblood Priest returns to louse up the Black Panther era.
- Movies, Movie Review Jun 14, 2018
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Upgrade is so derivative, it’s original
Horror director Leigh Whannell rips off so many other movies that his new feature becomes a collage.
- Movies, Movie Review Jun 8, 2018
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History repeats itself over and over again at the African Diaspora Film Festival
The aftershocks of the slave trade echo from Benin to Hungary to Cuba to Cabrini Green.
- Movies, Movie Review Jun 7, 2018
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Chicago Underground Film Festival: Tribulation 99
San Francisco filmmaker Craig Baldwin screens his 1991 alien-conspiracy classic
- Movies, Movie Review Jun 6, 2018
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Chicago Underground Film Festival: The Story of a Satellite
In this Spanish drama, a young man whose father was killed by a falling satellite keeps an eye on the sky.
- Movies, Movie Review Jun 5, 2018
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Chicago Underground Film Festival: The Shorts
Reader critics assess eight short works screening in the 25th edition
- Movies, Movie Review Jun 5, 2018
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Chicago Underground Film Festival: Gold and copper miners tough it out in Good Luck
Ben Russell's epic portrait of the global labor force screens at the Chicago Underground Film Festival
- Movies, Movie Review Jun 4, 2018
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Chicago’s Wax Trax! Records portrayed as a romance etched in vinyl in new documentary
Industrial Accident chronicles the love relationship that sustained Chicago's legendary record store and label.
- Movies, Movie Review May 25, 2018
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L’Enfant Secret is so intimate it feels like a confession
French director Philippe Garrel moves past narrative to focus on intense emotion.