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‘The Crown’ Season 6 review: The final episodes shift focus to William and Kate
The series also wraps with a look at Queen Elizabeth contemplating — and rejecting — minor attempts to modernize the monarchy.
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‘Reacher’ Season 2 review: The big guy is back, guns blazing
Alan Ritchson plays the mountain of a man, with a taste for wandering and a moral center, who reunites with his old Army unit.
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‘Wonka’ review: A clever candy-man origin story starring Timothée Chalamet
“Wonka” overloads its action climaxes, but the throwaway verbal jokes en route keep the musical contraption humming.
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8 things to do around Chicago: ‘Stomp,’ Dave Koz and Christmas movies at the Music Box
Events in the holiday spirit continue this weekend, though with “Krampus,” you have to give that spirit a wide latitude.
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‘Mr. Monk’s Last Case’ review: Can germaphobe Adrian Monk function in a COVID world?
Tony Shalhoub returns as the obsessive-compulsive crime solver he played on the USA series “Monk” for a one-off TV movie.
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Column: The complicated legacy of Norman Lear and ‘Good Times’
Both the cast of "Good Times" and the show's co-creator Eric Monte pushed back on the show's depiction of Black people.
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Best TV of 2023: In a tumultuous year for Hollywood, standouts include Chicago-set ‘The Bear’ and Netflix’s ‘The Diplomat’
Critic Nina Metz's picks also include the murder mystery "Poker Face" on Peacock and the sports drama "Swagger" on Apple TV+.
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The top 10 best (and worst!) movies of 2023
Tribune critic Michael Phillips unwraps his Top 10 of 2023, with stuff you probably haven't heard about, and a Barbenheimer you probably have. Plus 10 you can ignore because there's a lot you shouldn't.
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‘Fallen Leaves’ review: Is this heaven? No, it’s Helsinki, and it’s charming
This picture is one of Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki's drollest and leanest accomplishments — an 80-minute romantic fable beguiling in its simplicity.
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Review: A filmmaker confronts her pedophile grandfather in the HBO documentary ‘Great Photo, Lovely Life’
The film is subtitled "Facing a Family's Secrets" and that's precisely what director Amanda Mustard is after.
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‘Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé' review: A bonafide superstar captures a very big tour, for concert movie posterity
“Communicating as a Black woman, everything is a fight,” Beyonce says, coolly, at one point in "Renaissance." The touring extravaganza we see on screen is proof that the fight was, and is, worth it.
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Things to do around Chicago: Mariah Carey, a Holiday Sing-Along and the ‘Hanukkah Goblins’
Coming up around Chicago: the Queen of Christmas, hip hop dance and music to raise the gothic revival roof at Fourth Presbyterian.
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Review: A pair of Scottish police dramas premiere with new episodes on BritBox
"Shetland" gets a new detective in Season 8, and "Crime" from "Trainspotting" writer Irvine Welsh returns for Season 2.
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‘Candy Cane Lane’ review: My Christmas wish is for Eddie Murphy to find a better Christmas movie
He plays a dad determined to win the neighborhood’s decorations contest, but only occasionally can he and costar Tracee Ellis Ross shake this movie out of its holiday routine.
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Review: ‘Godzilla Minus One’ returns the creature to its Japanese roots
Written and directed by Takashi Yamazaki, the story begins in the immediate postwar period in 1945.
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‘Maestro’ review: Bradley Cooper wields the baton as Leonard Bernstein. But Carey Mulligan conducts the movie.
This movie is considerably more nuanced and engaging than the usual biopic. And it's full of Bernstein's glorious music.
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‘Slow Horses’ review: Violence overwhelms Season 3 of the sardonic spy series
There's less cerebral gamesmanship this time around, but Gary Oldman's Jackson Lamb remains as effectively grotesque as ever.
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When Don and Barbara Rickles met Bob and Ginnie Newhart, they became friends for life — as told in Judd Apatow’s latest film
Judd Apatow's latest film, "Bob and Don: A Love Story," is one of the best movies of this or any year.
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What Bradley Cooper’s ‘Maestro’ reveals about Leonard Bernstein — and Cooper’s own artistic ego
Two Chicago Tribune critics, Michael Phillips and Hannah Edgar, debate the strengths and flaws of Bradley Cooper's Leonard Bernstein film "Maestro."
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5 things to do around Chicago: Embrace the holidays with ‘Elf,’ the Vienna Boys Choir and an Immersive Nutcracker
There is plenty to do this weekend as holiday events get into full swing.