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“Itzhak” is a joyous film about a joyous man. Directed  by Alison Chernick, it’s a compact and immensely likable look at virtuoso violinist Itzhak Perlman. It’s less concerned with covering the totality of his life and...

If you experience flashbacks upon hearing the mere ping of a Tinder message, “Wobble Palace” is for you. It’s essentially a modern romantic-comedy, in that it’s about the open relationship of two hipsters who don’t really like...

Most American independent film festivals are defined by what could sarcastically be called “stories about people coming to terms with things.” Two such films premiered at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin on its opening day,...

“A Wrinkle In Time,” about three children and three magical beings trying to locate a missing physicist and stop evil from overwhelming the universe, is as dislocated from the current moviegoing moment as its human heroes...

The lawns and gardens are manicured to perfection. The grounds surrounding the estate sprawl majestically to the water. And the megamansion that sits at their center is an imposing structure of red brick and ivy—more a...

Even though it’s only my second year attending the True/False film festival, I felt a sense of homecoming when I landed in Columbia, Missouri. The Midwestern college town invites this feeling for me, anyway—I cherish traversable...

Back in 1998, as a way to highlight the new films that were emerging from the member nations of the European Union—ranging from the latest works from some of the world’s most acclaimed filmmakers to the...

Anyone who has made a living (or tried to make a living) as an actor or voiceover artist has, at some point, had to deal with an indecisive director, or one who directs just to hear...

Jackie Chan’s “Police Story” is one of the great 1980s action films. It’s also one of the most 1980s action films. It’s a bundle of cop-on-the-edge clichés that climaxes with Chan’s Hong Kong policeman hero at war with...

Matt writes: After producing a half-century of vital and game-changing documentaries, the Chicago-based company Kartemquin Films scored its first nomination for Best Documentary this year at the Academy Awards. Steve James, the acclaimed director of “Hoop...