Christopher Nolan

Film, Movie Review Sep 10, 2020
Tenet is the most Nolan-esque film yet—and that’s not a good thing

The auteur doesn’t show much growth in his most recent self-indulgent work.
- By Kathleen Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Tenet, Christopher Nolan, Inception, Following, 70-millimeter, John David Washington, Clémence Poésy, Kenneth Branagh, Elizabeth Debicki, Michael Caine, Dimple Kapadia, Himesh Patel, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Robert Pattinson

Blogs, Bleader Jan 29, 2018
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The Post is a Happy Days for old journalists

Steven Spielberg's film is a reminder of how much fun journalism can be.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Film, Media, News, Politics, "The Post, " "All the President's Men, " "Spotlight, " Steven Spielberg, Kay Graham, Meryl Streep, Bob Odenkirk, "Breaking Bad, " Matthew Rhys, "The Americans, " Jesse Plemons, Tracy Letts, "Homeland" "Lady Bird." Carrie Coon, "Fargo, " Michael Stuhlbarg, "Boardwalk Empire, " ."Times, "Newsweek, " MSNBC, Pentagon Papers, Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews, Chris Hayes, Lawrence O’Donnell, Brian Williams, Christopher Nolan, Batman movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 23, 2018
Academy Awards 2018: The Oscar nominees

Reader reviews of the top films
- By Steve Heisler
- Tags: Arts, Film, Moviegoing, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell, Get Out, Jordan Peele, Daniel Kaluuya, Lady Bird, Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Greta Gerwig, The Shape of Water, Richard Jenkins, Guillermo del Toro, Sally Hawkins, Timothee Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan, The Post, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, I Tonya, Margot Robbie, Allison Janney, The Florida Project, Willem Dafoe, The Big Sick, Kumail Nanjiani, Darkest Hour, Gary Oldman, Mudbound, Mary J. Blige, Molly's Game, Coco, All the Money in the World, The Disaster Artist, James Franco, Roman J. Israel Esq., Denzel Washington, Stronger, Logan, First They Killed My Father, Beats Per Minute, A Fantastic Woman, Happy End, Foxtrot, The Square, In the Fade, movie reviews, film reviews, film criticism, Academy Awards, The Oscars

Film, Movie Review Dec 7, 2017
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Gary Oldman is the complete Winston Churchill, but Darkest Hour tells only half the story

Joe Wright’s biopic captures a great leader but not the people who empowered him.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Darkest Hour, Joe Wright, Gary Oldman, Winston Churchill, Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk, Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, German invasion of Poland 1939, German invasion of Poland 1939, German invasion of Denmark Norway 1940, German invasion of Holland Belgium France 1940, Neville Chamberlain, Churchill speech we shall fight, British House of Commons, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Lily James, Anthony McCarten, Viscount Halifax, Stephen Dillane, King George VI, Ben Mendelsohn, Tom Hardy, Fionn Whitehead, Mark Rylance, 2018 Oscar race, World War II movies, historical films, biographical films, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 26, 2017
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Dunkirk and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets are alive with the sound of money

The latest from Christopher Nolan and Luc Besson are both weighed down by their sense of spectacle.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Boom!, Film, Shots Fired, Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk, 70-millimeter film, IMAX, The Sound of Music, Luc Besson, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Nowhere to Hide, Zaradasht Ahmed, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 12, 2016
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A new film series focuses on the impact of Chicago architecture

ArcLight Cinemas is partnering with the Chicago Architecture Foundation on a monthly curated film series that will run from January to April 2017.
- By Leah Pickett
- Tags: Architecture, Film, ArcLight, Chicago Architecture Foundation, The Untouchables, The Dark Knight, Stranger than Fiction, Metropolis, Nakea Barksdale, Fritz Lang, Christopher Nolan, Brian De Palma, Chicago Film Office, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 4, 2016
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European Union Film Festival kicks off Friday, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, European Union Film Festival, Joost van Ginkel, The Paradise Suite, Bill Stamets, Fred Camper, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, London Has Fallen, The Wave, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Vincente Minnelli, The Band Wagon, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Fargo, Marx Brothers, A Night at the Opera, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, Martin Scorsese, Shutter Island, Music Box 70mm Film Festival, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Cleopatra, Christopher Nolan, Interstellar, David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia, Robert Wise, West Side Story, Chicago Irish Film Festival, Peace on Earth Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 19, 2016
Does 70-millimeter film improve the moviegoing experience?

The Music Box's festival, devoted to the celluloid format, begins tonight.
- By Ian Simmons
- Tags: Film, Moviegoing, Seriously?, The Music Box, 70-millimeter film festival, The Hateful Eight, Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan, Paul Thomas Anderson, 2001: A Space Odyssey, West Side Story, Vertigo film, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, The Wild Bunch, Ghostbusters, Lawrence of Arabia, Cleopatra, Krull, The Master, Inherent Vice, Interstellar, Mad Max: Fury Road, Inside Out

Blogs, Bleader Oct 30, 2015
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Psychologists gone wild, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable sceenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Michael Almereyda, Experimenter, Stanley Milgram, Kyle Patrick Alvarez, The Stanford Prison Experiment, Taxi Jafar Panahi, The Assassin, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Burnt movie, Bradley Cooper, Jem and the Holograms, The Last Witch Hunter, Vin Diesel, Nasty Baby, Sebastian Silva, The Maid, Kristen Wiig, Our Brand Is Crisis, Suffragette, Carey Mulligan, Tokyo-Ga, Wim Wenders, Truth movie, Dan Rather, Francis Ford Coppola, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight, Sam Raimi, Drag Me to Hell, William Friedkin, The Exorcist, Jean Epstein, The Fall of the House of Usher, Chris Marker, Le Joli Mai, Ingmar Bergman, The Magician, F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu, Trinity United Methodist Church, Fred Zinnemann, Oklahoma!, Michael Curtiz, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, Victor Halperin, White Zombie, Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire, Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema, Chicago International Children's Film Festival, A Day's Work, Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, First Nations Film & Video Festival, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 10, 2014
Is Interstellar better when you're stoned?

Christopher Nolan's sci-fi epic has a few things in common with 2001: A Space Odyssey, you say? Let's put it to the test.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Science, The Reefer, Moviegoing, Film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Andrew Sarris, cannabis, Christopher Nolan, Interstellar, Jonathan Rosenbaum, marijuana, Moviegoing, Olaf Stapledon, Ray Bradbury, science fiction, Stanley Kubrick, the Internet

Film, Movie Review Nov 5, 2014
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Matthew McConaughey goes nowhere fast in Interstellar

The new sci-fi epic from Christopher Nolan is long on ideas but short on story.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Interstellar, Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan, Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Steven Spielberg, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Jessica Chastain, Wes Bentley, David Gyasi, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 24, 2013
Weekly Top Five: The best of Korean New Wave

Weekly Top Five: Korean New Wave
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Korean New Wave, Oldboy, Music Box, Spike Lee, Kim Jee-woon, Kim Ki-duk, The Host, Bong Joon-ho, Peppermint Candy, Lee Chang-dong, Memento, Christopher Nolan, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter . . . and Spring, Cinema Scope, Woman Is the Future of Man, Hong Sang-soo, Memories of a Murder

Film, Movie Review Jun 13, 2013
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Superman returns (again) in Man of Steel

The screenwriters of the "Dark Knight" trilogy take a crack at the original superhero.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Bryan Singer, Superman Returns, Warner Bros., Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer, Dark Knight trilogy, Man of Steel, Henry Cavill, Henry Cavill, Michael Shannon, Russell Crowe, Marlon Brando, Kansas, Diane Lane, Kevin Costner, Gary Cooper, Detective Comics, Dave Fleischer, DC Comics, Video

Film, Movie Review Jun 6, 2013
Ricky Jay has something up his sleeve

In Deceptive Practice the master illusionist remembers the stage magicians who shaped him.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Deceptive Practice, Molly Bernstein, Ricky Jay, Tony Slydini, Francis Carlyle, Al Flosso, Dai Vernon, Charlie Miller, Francis Carlyle, Los Angeles, David Mamet, Paul Thomas Anderson, Christopher Nolan

Blogs, Bleader Jul 18, 2012
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Opening soon: The Dark Knight Rises

Christopher Nolan delivers the last installment of his blockbuster Batman trilogy
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan, Batman Begins, Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Anne Hathaway, Julie Newmar, Jonathan Nolan, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, comic books, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 19, 2012
Punch-Drunk Love and a film's usefulness

How Punch-Drunk Love is the most useful film I've ever seen
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Best Week, Film, Adam Sandler, Paul Thomas Anderson, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, Fight Club, Donnie Darko, Tim Burton, Christopher Nolan, Variations on a Theme

Blogs, Bleader Aug 6, 2008
Knight moves

When it comes to "authentic" Chicago, Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight is more like a Gray Line tour.
- By Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Michael Atkinson, The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan, Timur Bekmambetov, Wanted, Walter Hill, Streets of Fire, Joe Versus the Volcano, Tom Hanks

Film, Movie Review Jul 17, 2008
A Batman for the 21st Century

It's not just about good and evil anymore—it's about order and chaos.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan, Christian Bale

Film, Movie Review Jun 16, 2005
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad City?

Americans, that's who—and that fear has kept Batman alive for nearly 70 years.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Batman Begins, Christopher Nolan, Christian Bale

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The auteur doesn’t show much growth in his most recent self-indulgent work.

Steven Spielberg's film is a reminder of how much fun journalism can be.

Reader reviews of the top films

Joe Wright’s biopic captures a great leader but not the people who empowered him.

The latest from Christopher Nolan and Luc Besson are both weighed down by their sense of spectacle.

ArcLight Cinemas is partnering with the Chicago Architecture Foundation on a monthly curated film series that will run from January to April 2017.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

The Music Box's festival, devoted to the celluloid format, begins tonight.

New reviews and notable sceenings in this week's issue

Christopher Nolan's sci-fi epic has a few things in common with 2001: A Space Odyssey, you say? Let's put it to the test.

The new sci-fi epic from Christopher Nolan is long on ideas but short on story.

Weekly Top Five: Korean New Wave

The screenwriters of the "Dark Knight" trilogy take a crack at the original superhero.

In Deceptive Practice the master illusionist remembers the stage magicians who shaped him.

Christopher Nolan delivers the last installment of his blockbuster Batman trilogy

How Punch-Drunk Love is the most useful film I've ever seen

When it comes to "authentic" Chicago, Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight is more like a Gray Line tour.

It's not just about good and evil anymore—it's about order and chaos.

Americans, that's who—and that fear has kept Batman alive for nearly 70 years.

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