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An out-of-nowhere triumph, “Mass” is the sort of American drama that you rarely see anymore: an intimate four-character piece about the aftermath of a school shooting that unfolds mostly in one room, letting a powerhouse cast and...

The 2021 Chicago Humanities Festival (CHF), which kicked off on September 25th and runs through Thursday, December 9th, has plenty of unmissable events scheduled throughout the fall (click here for the full list of events). Unfortunately,...

The Press Inclusion Initiative (PII) and the application for the 2022 Sundance Film Festival opened in September and closes tomorrow, October 8th. This initiative is designed to support critics and writers who are women, LGBTQ+, non-binary and/or transgender,...

“Mass” takes a while to let us know what is, bringing its four main characters together for a conversation in a church meeting room. The first film written and directed by actor Fran Kranz builds its...

The New York Film Festival is usually a livelier occasion for me. I go to the Walter Reade theatre and sort of nervously wait for the first screenings to open up so I can see old...

Ubisoft’s “Far Cry 6,” out today for consoles and PC, is a lot of game. Too much really. It’s a game that often feels more cluttered than refined, even if the clutter allows for a lot...

“I think images are worth repeating,” sings Lou Reed halfway through “Songs for Drella.” The film, directed by legendary photographer and regular at the New York Film Festival Ed Lachman, was an account of the concert Reed...

“This isn’t who I am! This isn’t… me … ?” are words to die by, as callous footballer Jackson (Markian Tarasiuk) learns at the start of the glossy teen slasher “There’s Someone Inside Your House.” Jackson’s...

Pandemic conditions have impacted productions around the world in a negative manner, but they have also actually helped some horror films return to their roots. There’s a B-movie, guerilla filmmaking tenor to the relaunch of the...

“Everything that’s important is unexplainable, did you ever notice that?” says one of the miners at the volcano site, where people from all over the country gather to mine for diamonds. It’s hard not to notice...