
Review: Dry Cleaning Creates Chill, Laid-Back Vibes on Friday the 13th at Thalia Hall
Listening to Dry Cleaning feels like having the perfect background-noise playlist on; the music and lyrics mimic conversations that weโฆ
Listening to Dry Cleaning feels like having the perfect background-noise playlist on; the music and lyrics mimic conversations that weโฆ
Princess Ivona inspires Trap Door Theatre to show us what it does best: Take a clever script and turn itโฆ
Inย Saint Omer,ย filmmaker Alice Diop applies her documentary skills to her first narrative film, based on an actual event that grippedโฆ
From the opening titles of The Seven Faces of Jane: โIn the summer of 2021, eight filmmakers were invited toโฆ
Thereโs a fine line between ridiculous and stupid, and many of Gerard Butlerโs movies dance along that line, often trippingโฆ
The 5th Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, the largest of its kind in North America, begins next Wednesday, January 18,โฆ
Matt Muse, the Chicago/LA-based rapper and poet is keeping his game on point. Heโs been releasing singles consistently over thatโฆ
Itโs a brand new year! Letโs kick off the second full weekend of 2023 with some fun events! While theโฆ
The themes and subject matter covered in Hirokazu Kore-edaโs latest drama, a moving, gentle story of chosen family, desperate connectionโฆ
Admittedly, Iโm a sucker for a Western, even if itโs a half-assed attempt at one using all the tropes thatโฆ
On paper, this film actually makes sense, even if it might not work out in the end. Actor Tom Hanksโฆ
The only big gripe I have about the new evil-robot thriller M3GAN is that there isnโt a single second ofโฆ
I suspect that for Cambodians and Cambodian Americans, the racist and genocidal history of the Khmer Rouge is a stainโฆ
What was 2022 like in the world of Chicago, Illinois, and Midwest letters? Iโve asked the Lit section writers toโฆ
Itโs a brand new year! Letโs kick off the first full weekend of 2023 with some fun events! While theโฆ
Shot by cinematographer Luc Montpellier in muted tones that almost make the film look like it was shot in black-and-whiteโฆ
Trying to discern Netflixโs release strategy on any given film is about as productive an exercise as shoveling your sidewalkโฆ
This isnโt a โbest theater of the yearโ list. As weโve noted about past lists, we donโt see everything. Mostโฆ
Itโs the last Friday of the year, so itโs time to reveal my Best of the Year list. As always,โฆ
As I am prone to do every year, I separate documentaries into their own Best of the Year list, notโฆ
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