Movie

I’ve struggled with how to start writing about Criterion’s release of “Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema.” How does one begin to wrap their arms around the career of a master? And, make no mistake, this is a career-defining...

“Beautiful Boy,” starring Timothée Chalamet as drug-addicted teenager Nic Sheff and Steve Carell as his journalist father David, is a harrowing movie, especially for parents. In contrast to a lot of stories about characters falling into...

7 NEW TO NETFLIX “Buybust””De Palma””Green Room””Into the Forest””Jiro Dreams of Sushi””Krisha””The Workshop” 7 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD “2001” (4K) For a very long time, it felt like if you had a DVD player, it was required...

For a movie that mines its most startling jolt out of the concept of time, there is a knowing and ironic sense of timelessness to Alice Rohrwacher’s exquisite pastoral fable “Happy As Lazzaro.” When it unassumingly...

Last year’s Sundance Film Festival launched movies like “Sorry to Bother You,” “Hereditary,” “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” “Leave No Trace,” “Wildlife,” “On Her Shoulders,” “Eighth Grade,” “Mandy,” “Shirkers” and so much more. So it’s with...

Coke vs. Pepsi. The Beatles vs. The Rolling Stones. The Cubs vs. The White Sox. Rivalries fuel so much of pop culture, often helping both halves of the debate by thrusting them so regularly into the...

This Friday marks the Chicago run of “The War at Home,” the 1979 documentary about the antiwar movement in Madison, WI during the Vietnam War. Directed by Glenn Silber and Barry Alexander Brown, the film has...

How do networks like FX and Syfy compete with streaming services like Netflix and Amazon? The inherent difference in the two models is obvious in that shows on Netflix can be binged over a weekend while...

There’s a moment, toward the end of “Widows,” right before the climactic heist, when we check in on the members of our titular crew before they don their black masks and holster their Glock .9mms. It’s...

Visual sumptuousness was a means and also an end in the cinema of Bernardo Bertolucci, who has died after a battle with lung cancer. He had lost the use of his legs around 2003, when his...