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‘The Killer’ review: Netflix’s latest feels like just killing time for a globetrotting assassin

David Fincher's "The Killer" brings up the matter of sleekly executed junk. With a higher level of filmmaker, junk becomes a different and more depressing question of "why this material?"

November 02, 2023

‘Nyad’ review: Swimming 110 miles in open water, never mind the sharks

Annette Bening stars as the real-life athlete and sports journalist Diana Nyad, who swam from Cuba to Florida nonstop at age 64.

November 01, 2023

‘The Holdovers’ review: Have a merry sweet-and-sour ‘70s Christmas with Paul Giamatti and company

I love how two movies opening this week, “The Holdovers” and “Priscilla,” begin with close-ups of products dear to their main characters. For Hunham, it's a 1970s tube of Preparation H.

November 01, 2023

‘Priscilla’ review: The starry road to Lonely Street — and the Presley movie we needed

Sofia Coppola's movie is a small but sure triumph about the largest of royal showbiz lives, led in the brightest, harshest of spotlights.

October 31, 2023

10 things to do around Chicago: Queen, ‘Company’ and all kinds of stuff for Halloween

All Hallows Eve and the Day of the Dead lead the way this weekend, with events ranging from this year’s Day of the Dead exhibition at the National Museum of Mexican Art to themed concerts by Deadmau5.

October 27, 2023

‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ review: Pizza and killer animatronics? On second thought, how about tacos somewhere?

As the security guard at a twisted pizza franchise, Josh Hutcherson (”The Hunger Games”) draws you into a character’s sullen state of mind.

October 26, 2023

‘Fellow Travelers’ review: A secret 30-year love affair begins amid the 1950s Lavender Scare

Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey star as high-level government workers who fall in lust and then love amid McCarthy's witch hunt.

October 26, 2023

What it takes for a movie to get a rare ‘F’ CinemaScore — and why it’s a badge of honor

Chicago's Music Box Theatre has a new series titled "Who Give an 'F,'" showing movies that received CinemaScore’s lowest grade from audience reactions.

October 26, 2023

Richard Roundtree appreciation: The long shadow of ‘Shaft,’ cast by a groundbreaking action star

“I am what I am,” he told a New York Times reporter not long after "Shaft" made him a star. "And I’m gonna be that way until the day when they put the number on my stone.”

October 25, 2023

‘The Gilded Age’ Season 2 review: The house of dearth

The HBO series from “Downton Abbey” creator Julian Fellowes doesn't even work as expensive-looking escapism.

October 25, 2023

‘The Royal Hotel’ review: In this triumph of tension, check in at your peril

There’s a really good film in theaters right now and streaming Oct. 24 on Prime: A gripping Australian noir starring Julia Garner.

October 23, 2023

Chicago International Film Fest winners are announced, and there’s an explanation for everything

Set in Budapest, with slightly more on its mind than coming-of-age high school comedies like "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Explanation for Everything" took top prize in this year's Chicago International Film Festival. The festival continues through Oct. 22.

October 20, 2023

‘The Pigeon Tunnel’ review: Tinker, tailor, filmmaker, spy

Errol Morris' latest documentary is a final conversation with David Cornwell, the British spy novelist better known as John le Carré.

October 20, 2023

Things to do around Chicago: The Arts in the Dark Halloween Parade, Pretty Lights and a horror-athon

This weekend, State Street will be filled with the signature downtown Chicago Halloween event. Plus Humanities Day in Hyde Park, David Sedaris at the Auditorium and the annual freakout fest Music Box of Horrors.

October 20, 2023

‘Annika’ Season 2 review: Nicola Walker is back as the wry head of Glasgow’s marine homicide unit

As police procedurals go “Annika” is one of the better offerings from Masterpiece Mystery on PBS. It all comes down to British actress Nicola Walker.

October 19, 2023

‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ review: Scorsese delivers an epic of oil, greed, racism and sorrow, set in 1920s Oklahoma

Over the course of "Killers of the Flower Moon," the facets of the Osage murders conspiracy in 1920s Oklahoma work like tributaries feeding a big, bloody river. It's a key film of 2023.

October 19, 2023

‘Bosch: Legacy’ Season 2 review: Half the show works like gangbusters. The other half is just a bust.

When it's the Harry and Honey show — private eye and exquisite attorney — "Bosch: Legacy" is top tier TV. Too often it veers away.

October 18, 2023

Meet Minhal Baig, the next great Chicago filmmaker

Writer-director Minhal Baig's third feature, "We Grown Now," pays close and eloquent attention to two boys growing up in Chicago's Cabrini-Green housing projects in the 1990s. Baig's goal: to ensure, visually, that "these lives should never feel too small to be on a big screen.”

October 18, 2023

‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’ review: Swifties will be plenty happy. And nothing else could possibly matter.

Is this one of the great or at least really good concert films in existence? No. But rarely has a point been quite so beside the point.

October 13, 2023

Things to do around Chicago: Phish, a street art tour and Open House Chicago

This weekend, concerts by Phish and Legends of Hip Hop, Sandra Cisneros at the Humanities Festival and your annual chance to see inside some Chicago landmarks.

October 13, 2023

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