The Parts We Lose

Review: Aaron Paul Stars in The Parts You Lose, a Low-Key Thriller About Outsiders

On the way home from school one afternoon, a 10-year-old North Dakota boy named Wesley (newcomer Danny Murphy) stumbles upon a man (Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul, playing a character who […]

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Review: Warsaw is Dour, Crushingly Difficult, and Often Just Soul-Crushing

During World War II, when the Soviets were finally pushing the German forces back, an uprising in Poland was getting ready to kick off. The exiled Polish government gave the […]

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Review: The Delicate Tears of the Waning Moon Tells a Poetic and Horrific Story About the Fate of Women Journalists

The Delicate Tears of the Waning Moon has a poetic title, both in English and in Spanish (Las Delicadas Lagrimas de ls Luna Menguante). Playwright and actor Rebeca Aleman has […]

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First Love

Review: Part Crime Drama, Comedy and Romance, First Love Finds Room For It All

Next month, the world will get a new Martin Scorsese movie, one that’s already being hailed as a return to his best gangster-movie ways (and even featuring a reliable cast […]

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Review: Orion Ensemble Offered an Uneven Performance on Wednesday

The Orion Ensemble opened its 27th season with their usual sort of concert that featured little-heard composers and a rarely heard work by a major composer. The second run-through of […]

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fleabag

Review: A Whirlwind of Emotion, Tragic and Comic, in Fleabag One Woman Show

Although not technically a movie, this filmed version of writer/performer Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s recent revival of her one-woman show Fleabag (which then inspired the massively successful two-season BBC series) is available […]

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Miles Davis Birth of the Cool

Review: A Man, His Music and a Movement in Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

I always look forward to documentaries made by Stanley Nelson, a filmmaker who seems to have taken it upon himself to tell some of the most fascinating and necessary stories […]

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Lucy in the Sky

Review: Lucy in the Sky‘s Glimpse of a Unique Psychology Over-Fictionalizes Real Life Events

Inspired by the 2007 events when astronaut Lisa Nowak drove nearly 1,000 miles to attack a rival for another astronaut’s affection, Lucy in the Sky attempts to dive into the […]

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The Laundromat

Review: The Laundromat Marks a Rare Miss from an Otherwise Reliable Filmmaker

Steven Soderbergh (Ocean’s Eleven, Traffic, Magic Mike) is one of those filmmakers who can make even the driest material seem remarkably entertaining. For proof of this, take a look at […]

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Playtime Radio: On the Road in Two Rivers, Wisconsin–“I’m a Cheesehead, Baby”

We collaborate with Playtime with Bill Turck and Kerri Kendall and appear on their Sunday afternoon arts radio show occasionally. Next week—October 6—Julian Ramirez, our Music editor, will join Playtime to […]

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One Child Nation

Screens Monthly: Spooky Stories and Chicago’s Biggest Film Festival

There’s something about flipping the calendar over to October that feels different from earlier months. It’s as if the space between September 30 and October 1 is a mini time […]

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Joker

Review: Monsters are Made, Not Born, in Gritty, Sinister Joker Origin Story

At this point, it feels like any actor who wants to play the Joker—arguably the most famous comic book villain in history—can take a crack at him. At some point […]

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