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- Film, Movie Review Jul 18, 2019
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Leaving Home, Coming Home, a blurry portrait of photographer Robert Frank, finally hits theaters
One of the last surviving Beat artists looks back on a long life.
- Film, Movie Review Jul 3, 2019
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Midsommar is nothing more than a dressed-up piece of Scandinavian schlock
In his second feature, director Ari Aster shows he has a limited number of tricks up his sleeve.
- Film, Movie Review Jun 27, 2019
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In Wild Rose, a Glaswegian with her heart in Nashville aspires to become the queen of country music
Jessie Buckley shines as a singer whose life is already one long country song.
- Film, Movie Review Jun 27, 2019
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The Fate of Lee Khan is the most fun you’ll have at the movies this summer
Now in a new digital restoration, King Hu’s wuxia classic mixes comedy, action, intrigue—and resistance.
- Film, Movie Review Jun 13, 2019
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16 Shots focuses too much on the Laquan McDonald shooting at the expense of McDonald himself
The west side teen was a human being, not just another statistic, and he deserves a better tribute than this.
- Film, Movie Review Jun 6, 2019
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In Asako I & II Ryûsuke Hamaguchi wonders if human longing is innate or instilled by something beyond us
Who hasn’t experienced heightened emotional states at moments of crisis or epiphany?
- Film, Movie Review May 30, 2019
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Transit follows a group of refugees in Marseille hoping for a better life
The book’s set in 1944. The movie’s in 2019. The story’s still a profound meditation on statelessness.
- Film, Movie Review May 24, 2019
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Non-Fiction and The Souvenir question how well their characters really know one another—and themselves
In two new films, Olivier Assayas and Joanna Hogg withhold information to poke and provoke viewers.
- Film, Movie Review May 17, 2019
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All Is True is like a titillating celebrity exposé that just happens to be set in Jacobean England
Kenneth Branagh returns to Shakespeare for his latest feature.
- Film, Movie Review May 10, 2019
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In Days and Nights in the Forest Satyajit Ray conjures truth and insight through the most ordinary of interactions.
Behold the master at work.
- Film, Movie Review May 1, 2019
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Can the two crazy kids in Long Shot work out their differences and find happiness?
In the world of the perfectly adequate (though exceptionally well-lit) rom-com, everything is possible.
- Film, Movie Review Apr 25, 2019
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It's the end of the world as we know it, and Avengers: Endgame feels fine
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the superheroes of our lives.
- Film, Movie Review Apr 18, 2019
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In 3 Faces, Iranian director Jafar Panahi turns the camera inward
How much can artists control the world around them?
- Film, Movie Review Apr 18, 2019
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The Chicago Palestine Film Festival provides a framework for understanding recent events in the Middle East
These eight features and ten shorts comprise an exhaustive look at Palestinian life.
- Film, Movie Review Apr 12, 2019
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Three short films demonstrate the power of puppets
Figures made of cloth and sticks bring the atrocities of the Belgian Congo, a nudist colony, and lonely workers on the night shift to life.
- Film, Movie Review Apr 5, 2019
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Ash Is Purest White is another triumph for Jia Zhang-ke
No other director can evoke feelings of displacement so palpably.
- Film, Movie Review Mar 26, 2019
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We have met the enemy and they are Us
Jordan Peele’s follow-up to Get Out is less funny and more unsettling.
- Film, Movie Review Mar 23, 2019
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Chicago is the real star of the surprisingly powerful Captive State
For those of us who love the city, more than just the plot is familiar in this sly takedown of gentrification and authoritarianism.
- Film, Movie Review Mar 22, 2019
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The Beach Bum perfectly conforms to the conventions of nonconformity
If you're a white, rich, male asshole, you can get away with anything.
- Film, Movie Review Mar 8, 2019
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Captain Marvel shows that all female-led superhero movies needed was good writing, acting, and direction
Carol Danvers isn’t “Just a Girl”: she’s a tough, multifaceted woman.
- Film, Movie Review Mar 1, 2019
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Starring a cast of nonactors, Capernaum examines the lives of refugees in a Beirut slum
Nadine Labaki’s drama is almost too much realism to bear.
- Film, Movie Review Feb 22, 2019
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The Wild Pear Tree shows a young Turk coming of age and getting his comeuppance
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest feature is a deep psychological portrait set against an expansive landscape.
- Film, Movie Review Feb 15, 2019
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Based on the life of painter Gerhard Richter, Never Look Away is a little too pretty
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s latest could use a little more ugly truth.
- Film, Movie Review Feb 15, 2019
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With Everybody Knows, Iranian director Asghar Farhadi attempts to make a Spanish movie
In reaching for the universal, he ends up with the generic.
- Film, Movie Review Feb 8, 2019
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The Oscar-nominated animated and live-action shorts are full of disconnections
Can the characters bridge the divides, or will they let the connections die?
