2022 in Review: Best Narrative Films of the Year

It’s the last Friday of the year, so it’s time to reveal my Best of the Year list. As always,…
It’s the last Friday of the year, so it’s time to reveal my Best of the Year list. As always,…
As I am prone to do every year, I separate documentaries into their own Best of the Year list, not…
The Chicago Humanities Festival presented a screening of Charlie Chaplin’s hour-long masterpiece The Kid, at the Music Box Theater on…
The 58th Chicago International Film Festival ls history now with winners announced and Closing Night over. Last night’s closing feature…
The Second City finds itself home to the country’s second-longest running LGBTQ+ film festival in the form of Reeling Film…
In a time when the new Minions movie is dominating the box office with Top Gun-like astronomical numbers, Netflix gives…
There’s nostalgia mining, and then there’s Lightyear, the latest animated work from Pixar that technically isn’t a prequel or origin story…
Five years (and one pandemic) after its first go-round with an all-David-Lynch, all-the-time program, Chicago’s Music Box Theatre again presents…
The Gene Siskel Film Center celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2022, and the downtown cinema is celebrating with a year-long…
The five 2020 Live-Action Short Film Oscar Nominees hail from four different countries—Belgium, Tunisia, France and the USA—and average about…
Disney Plus finally launched today, and there’s lots of buzz about the selection of Marvel movies and shows, and the…
In a time when all the content anyone could ever desire is quite literally at our fingertips, a movie theater…
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