Lisa Trifone is Managing Editor and a Film Critic at Third Coast Review. A Rotten Tomatoes approved critic, she is a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association. Find more of Lisa's work at SomebodysMiracle.com
Billed as Chicago’s largest dinner party, Dîner en Blanc is an annual, one-night-only pop-up event held in major cities all over the world for no other reason than to celebrate […]
Watch enough documentaries over time and they’ll all start to feel the same. That’s especially true in a season of churn-and-burn docs dropped every week on streaming platforms, usually about […]
Filmmaker Greta Gerwig is three for three. Her first film as director, Lady Bird, was a funny-because-it’s-true romp through teenage-dom, the epitome of an indie darling when it was released […]
Filmmaker Christian Petzold has made a few of the most compelling European films of the last several years in Phoenix, the story of a Holocaust survivor searching for answers in […]
It’s possible that at some point in grade school or junior high, you graced the stage for a school theater production, some simplified version of an Agatha Christie mystery or, […]
Originally titled “L’Envol” (or, Flight), the more ravishingly named (for English audiences) Scarlet is a sweeping, romantic story of the passage of time, a young woman’s coming of age and […]
The 1989 animated feature film The Little Mermaid ushered in a new golden era of Disney’s storied animation legacy. A sanitized version of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fable about a […]
If Ben Affleck’s Air is the feel-good product origin story of the year (and it is), Matt Johnson’s BlackBerry is its dark counterpart, a cautionary tale about ambition, technology and toxic […]
The amount of warmth and good sentiment I have for the new film adaptation of Judy Blume’s iconic novel Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret cannot be overstated. Adapted […]
It’s best to start with a confession: I’m no Blume-ite. Never was, either. During those turbulent pre-teen years when every kid is looking for answers and intel about life’s most […]
There is nothing quite like heading into the creative mind of Quentin Dupieux, a filmmaker known for quirky, sharp indies like Rubber, about a homicidal car tire, and Deerskin, about […]
With so much content to consume on any given platform on any given day, releasing movies these days is more a labor of love than a business endeavor. Some of […]