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<i>The Trial of the Chicago 7</i> asks: What is worth standing up for?

The Trial of the Chicago 7 asks: What is worth standing up for? 11

Aaron Sorkin’s new drama shows what happens when it’s time to fight and “the whole world is watching.”

By Arionne Nettles

Top Stories

Movie Review

Books of Blood doesn’t pass the horror test

The new Hulu movie looks scary enough, but it doesn’t offer much else.

By Catey Sullivan
Small Screen

Video
We (don’t always) love TV: Emily in Paris

Two television addicts scream about how much they hated the Netflix comedy.

By Rima Parikh and Brianna Wellen
Movie Feature

Highlights of the Chicago International Film Fest 3

What to stream as part of the 56th annual CIFF

By Kathleen Sachs

Reviews

Movie Review

Black women have mid-life crises, too

The 40-Year-Old Version deftly offers a fresh and exciting perspective on a tired film trope.

By Sheri Flanders | 10.09.20
Movie Review

The Devil All the Time needs more Robert Pattinson

Stellar performances get lost in the film’s prolonged rigmarole.

By Cody Corrall | 09.22.20
Movie Review

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 | 09.10.20
Movie Review

The Burnt Orange Heresy critiques the art critic

Giuseppe Capotondi’s latest looks at the dark inauthenticity of the art world.

By Noah Berlatsky | 09.04.20

More Reviews »

From the Archive

Movie Review

Spaceship Earth

A smart ecoparable from the guys who breathed new life into the zombie genre.

By J.R. Jones | 07.19.07
Movie Review

Designer Rage

A Time to Kill, Directed by Joel Schumacher, With Matthew McConaughey, Samuel L. Jackson, Sandra Bullock, Kiefer Sutherland, and Ashley Judd

By Anthony Puccinelli | 08.15.96

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Laughing and screaming with Chris Redd in Scare Me

By Sheri Flanders | 10.05.20
Is Breaking Bad as good as we remember?

By Taryn Allen | 10.01.20
A Chicago International Film Festival unlike any other

By Kathleen Sachs | 09.24.20
13
We love TV: PEN15

By Rima Parikh and Brianna Wellen | 09.24.20
1
At home with the Reeling International Film Festival

By Cody Corrall | 09.23.20
Broaden your horizons with the Chicago Latino Film Festival

By Kathleen Sachs | 09.21.20
The Folded Map Project shows a segregated city

By S. Nicole Lane | 09.15.20
2
‘Pioneering is dangerous’

By Arionne Nettles | 09.14.20
1
Asian Pop-Up Cinema, at home and at the drive-in

By Nina Li Coomes | 09.11.20
The Queens takes you behind the scenes of a Chicago drag pageant

By Cody Corrall | 09.04.20
Residents in southeast Chicago aren’t giving up

By S. Nicole Lane | 09.02.20
2
Leftist struggle and solidarity on screen

By Kathleen Sachs | 09.01.20
The Chi finds itself—in complexity, strong women, and the work toward redemption

By Arionne Nettles | 08.28.20
We love TV: I May Destroy You

By Rima Parikh and Brianna Wellen | 08.24.20

Popular Stories

Movie Review

The Trial of the Chicago 7 asks: What is worth standing up for? 11

Aaron Sorkin’s new drama shows what happens when it’s time to fight and “the whole world is watching.”

By Arionne Nettles | 10.19.20
Movie Review

Acid Western

By Jonathan Rosenbaum | 06.27.96
Movie Feature

The Reader's comprehensive-ish film review index 11

An index of the Chicago Reader's long reviews from 1971 to now.

02.16.12
Movie Review

The Beach House, Palm Springs, and more to watch this weekend

Movies of note now playing.

By Reader staff and contributors | 07.10.20
Movie Review

Books of Blood doesn’t pass the horror test

The new Hulu movie looks scary enough, but it doesn’t offer much else.

By Catey Sullivan | 10.19.20

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