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‘Rustin’ review: Colman Domingo takes care of business in civil rights activist biopic on Netflix
In Netflix's "Rustin," as civil rights strategist Bayard Rustin, Colman Domingo scales everything beautifully, intimately.
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Column: 1986′s Chicago-shot ‘Running Scared’ is a time capsule of the Thompson Center
Google plans a gut rehab of the Thompson Center, but the distinctive interiors are preserved on film thanks to the 1986 movie "Running Scared."
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‘Fargo’ Season 5 review: Juno Temple has the skills of MacGyver vs. Jon Hamm’s dangerous Marlboro Man
An anthology series about the violence that exists beneath Minnesota nice, FX's "Fargo" from Noah Hawley returns for Season 5.
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‘Napoleon’ review: Joaquin Phoenix meets his Waterloo
Ridley Scott’s plan for the Apple TV+ airing of “Napoleon” will restore 90 minutes and likely a battle or three. Will it make for a better experience? Probably.
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8 things to do around Chicago: Let the holiday season begin! Plus Liz Phair, Disney100 and ‘Boop! The Musical’
Holiday events begin in earnest this weekend, with ice skating in Millennium Park (weather permitting) and Christkindlmarket in Daley Plaza joining the events we have included here.
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Review: In ‘May December,’ a fictionalized tabloid scandal is acted to a tee by Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman
Directed by Todd Haynes, acted beautifully by Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman, the tabloid-inspired “May December” exists in an uncomfortable realm. Haynes isn’t afraid of that, and American movies are better for it.
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‘The Crown’ review: The death of Princess Diana opens the Netflix series’ final season
Also this season: The early relationship of Prince William and Kate Middleton, and the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla.
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Review: ‘Thanksgiving’ is Eli Roth’s grotesque holiday slasher film with a surprisingly good premise
The entrails-strewn slasher outing "Thanksgiving" is predictably gory but, at its best, unpredictably nimble. I didn't know filmmaker Eli Roth had it in him.
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‘Ghosts’ review: She sees dead people — the UK original that inspired the CBS remake comes to network TV
After a head injury, a young woman can see and hear ghosts from across the centuries who occupy her crumbling estate.
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Review: ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’ is a prequel for pre-sold fans only
The "Hunger Games" prequel takes its dystopian hellhole duties SUPERseriously, with more solemnity than imaginative excitement.
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‘Fugitive’ director Andy Davis returns to Chicago to screen his first movie ‘Stony Island’
“Stony Island” tells the story, based largely on younger brother Richie’s life, of a group of young musicians trying to start a band.
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‘All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt’ review: Pieces of memory form an exquisite puzzle of a life
Raven Jackson's exquisite riddle "All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt," doesn't try to straighten out the swerves or neatly order the events of one woman's lifetime. Memories have a way of swimming in our heads, unpredictably. That's how this film works.
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8 things to do around Chicago: Cupcakke, a ‘Sweeney Todd’ reunion and festival of film shorts
Cupcakke, Depeche Mode, a “Downton Abbey” exhibit and the Chicago Reel Shorts Film Fest. Don’t let the November darkness keep you home this weekend.
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Column: The actors strike is over — what now?
The path has been cleared for everyone to return to work, including crew, who also saw their jobs paused during the two strikes.
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Column: Looking at the human cost of the Israel-Hamas war, through filmmakers’ lenses
Watched in tandem, the short films “The Boy” and “The Present” predate the current Israeli-Hamas carnage. Yet they’re full of portents.
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‘For All Mankind’ Season 4 review: Life on Mars can’t escape Earthly problems
The alternate version of history about space travel picks up in 2003 with a large-scale colony on Mars.
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‘The Marvels’ review: Saving the galaxy with the bling ring: Brie Larson, Tayonah Parris and Iman Vellani
This is an agreeable weirdo of a Marvel movie, and the shortest one yet. It's also the 33rd film in the officially sanctioned MCU, which at this point stands for More Chapters Unnecessary.
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‘The Buccaneers’ review: What if you took Edith Wharton’s novel, but made it ‘Gossip Girl’?
The Apple TV+ series is based on Edith Wharton's final novel about American heiresses in London on the hunt for aristocratic suitors.
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Column: Should movie theaters provide intermissions, even if filmmakers don’t?
“Killers of the Flower Moon” is not short, nor should it be. Would the movie get bigger cinema audiences if it offered a bathroom break in the middle?
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‘Sly’ review: Just a man and his will to survive. Sylvester Stallone gets the Netflix doc treatment
Less a documentary than a Sylvester Stallone career retrospective, the Netflix film "Sly" is an exercise in celebrity image management.