Review: In Glass Onion, Detective Benoit Blanc Returns for a Burn-the-Rich Murder Mystery
As much as I enjoyed writer/director Rian Johnson’s Knives Out, nothing quite prepared me for how much I laughed during…
Review: More Is Just More in Overlong, Predictable Motherless Brooklyn
I like film noir and I tend to like the chances that Edward Norton takes in many of the roles…
Preview: What To Watch (and Do) at the 55th Chicago International Film Festival
A 55th anniversary is no small thing; most marriages don’t make it to that milestone, let alone annual arts events.…
Interview: Chicago International Film Festival From the Inside, with Artistic Director Mimi Plauché
North America’s longest-running competitive film festival, the 55th Chicago International Film Festival kicks off on October 16 at the AMC…
Review: Stop Motion Animation Wows in Anderson’s Touch-and-Go Isle of Dogs
In a similar way that writer/director Wes Anderson’s previous feature, The Grand Budapest Hotel, seemed to spring forth from his…
Film Review: Collateral Beauty, Gross and Ill Conceived
Sometimes a movie is bad just because it’s bad, and sometimes it’s bad because it wants so passionately to be…
