Review: James Cameron Takes Digital Cinema to New Heights in a Visually Impressive Avatar: The Way of Water
Aside from the small contingent of moviegoers who believe 2009’s Avatar is the greatest affront to movie making in the…
Review: Disappointing Ammonite Keeps Leads Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan from Digging Very Deep
I spent most of my time watching writer/director Francis Lee’s (God’s Own Country) new film Ammonite in awe of its lead…
Preview: How to Experience the 56th Chicago Film Festival From Home (and the Drive-In)
Forced by mishandled pandemics to get creative about presenting an annual film festival, the team at Cinema/Chicago have pieced together…
Review: At a Family Gathering Full of Drama, Emotion in Blackbird Sometimes Falls Short
When we first meet Lily (Susan Sarandon), it’s during a long and seemingly painful exercise of getting up and out…
Dispatch: Early Hits, Misses and Mehs at Toronto Film Festival
In just its first few days, the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival has presented dozens of films to thousands of…
Film Review: You Can Maybe Skip the Middling Wonder Wheel
Four years ago, many critics were drawing comparisons between Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine and the works of Tennessee Williams, in…
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…
This Week in Art House Cinema: The Dressmaker, For the Love of Spock and more
The Dressmaker Those few times a year when a film escapes from Australia and makes its way stateside, you can…
