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A few months ago at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, I sat in silence, fully dazed, as the credits rolled on a film that seemingly kicked me in the throat and also gave me a warm hug....

The City & State sidebar in the Chicago International Film Festival lineup is a section of movies dedicated to works produced by locally based filmmakers, dealing with stories set in and around the area. This year’s...

It’s always a thorough disappointment when you’ve sat through a lovely movie in a mostly empty theatre and then you watch it fill up with people for the big-ticket item that follows. That happened at this...

Although “Stars at Noon” is set in Nicaragua during the very recent past, it’s another film by legendary director Claire Denis (“Beau Travail,” “High Life”) that seems to have been time-warped in from the 1970s or ’80s, when tough, smart, languorous, handsomely produced,...

I wrote in my review of the 2018 reboot of “Halloween” that the team behind the film didn’t “really understand what made the first film a masterpiece.” Not to be that guy, but if the cluttered...

Anyone who’s read the stunning true story of “The Watcher” remembers it. Published in New York Magazine in November 2018, it’s the tale of 657 Boulevard, a Westfield, New Jersey address that was stalked by a...

The official launch of the Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies in the College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will take place with an Inaugural Lecture on Friday, October 28th. The lecture, titled, “Re-Enchanting...

For years, Canadian twin sister pop duo Tegan and Sara Quin have raised the spirits of many LGBTQ indie-pop/rock fans with their upbeat angsty music. During the early 2000s, no viewer could escape the Quin sisters’...

“Till” isn’t an easy story to tell. Recalling the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, who left Chicago to visit his cousins in Money, Mississippi before being ripped from his bed by racist white Southerners —“Till”...

The Chicago International Film Festival, the longest-running competitive film festival in North America, is once again returning to give local moviegoers their first look at what’s happening right now in the world of global cinema. Running...