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It’s safe to say that audiences around the country were shocked this weekend by “A Quiet Place”—not just from that nail on the staircase, the uncharacteristic stillness of fellow audience members, or that final shot. Included...

A recent viewing of all my old 1970s disaster movie DVDs has led me to conclude that Mark Robson’s “Earthquake” (1974) is a film worth discussing, even if it is clearly far from the best of its...

A true master of psychologically charged dramas, Scottish auteur Lynne Ramsay is back after a long pause following 2011’s astonishing thriller “We Need to Talk About Kevin.” Her finest and most structurally adventurous effort to date,...

Whenever I am channel-hopping and happen upon “Singin’ in the Rain,” the classic MGM musical about the chaos that befell the film industry with the introduction of sound, two things inevitably happen. The first is that...

Joe (Joaquin Phoenix) is a lumbering, slow-moving giant. His flesh is so heavy and thick his emotions can’t reach the surface. He’s a closed system of trauma, nervous system flooded by flashbacks from combat experience and...

John Krasinski’s “A Quiet Place” is a nerve-shredder. It’s a movie designed to make you an active participant in a game of tension, not just a passive observer in an unfolding horror. Most of the great...

Isao Takahata has died at the age of 82. And while that name alone may not mean much to the average moviegoer, the news will come as a devastating blow to animation fans. As a producer, he...

10 NEW TO NETFLIX “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail””Bad Boys””Cube””Deep Blue Sea””Friday Night Lights””Heat””The Iron Giant””L.A. Confidential””Seven””Una” 4 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD “Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon” There’s a certain irony in the fact...

At last week’s industry soirée in anticipation of the 34th Chicago Latino Film Festival, festival Founder Pepe Vargas reminded us all that his goal with the festival was to always help “elevate” the city’s Latino community...

In honor of today’s inaugural Day4Empathy, we are sharing the following video featuring Roger Ebert’s speech on empathy, delivered in July of 2005 at the dedication of his plaque outside the Chicago Theatre. Also included in...