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‘Memory’ review: Jessica Chastain, Peter Sarsgaard anchor a thorny drama with a tender heart
Pain and trauma permeate Michel Franco’s new drama about two lost souls who find surprising comfort in one another.
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‘Freud’s Last Session’ review: Anthony Hopkins shines in a sometimes uneven story of faith
Anthony Hopkins stars as Sigmund Freud, adding to a string of sterling late-chapter performances by the 86-year-old actor.
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Things to do around Chicago: Young Playwrights Fest and a Chicago artist at the MCA
Also this weekend, a jazz festival and an exhibition of Tiffany designs that runs just a few more days.
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‘Night Swim’ review: The backyard pool holds some secrets
The latest Blumhouse Productions release is moody, watery, half-good thriller, starring a terrific Kerry Condon.
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2024 winter movie preview: Our Top-10 includes the ‘Mean Girls’ musical, a new ‘Dune’ and a Bob Marley biopic
What are we looking for this winter? Our list includes some well-known titles, including the next "Ghostbusters," as well as some edgier and fringier films.
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2024 winter TV preview: 15 shows to watch with a new season of ‘True Detective’ and the Nicole Kidman drama ‘Expats’
With the Hollywood strikes resolved, the new year promises a return to normal — whatever “normal” looks like these days.
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‘All of Us Strangers’ review: A broken heart, looking to heal, in a beautiful London-set story
Director Andrew Haigh has taken familiar feelings and oft-explored ideas in his own spectral direction, with a superb cast.
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‘Occupied City’ review: Mapping the Holocaust, street by street
Early in Steve McQueen’s extraordinary documentary, the film cuts to the interior of the elegant main hall in Amsterdam’s grand Royal Concertgebouw.
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10 things to do around Chicago this weekend: Free New Year’s Eve fireworks and the return of Ramova Theatre
There's lots to do as 2023 comes to a close, from fireworks displays to theater shows.
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Column: With sports movies an endangered species, a movie critic and sports writer look back at memorable offerings of decades past
Film critic Nina Metz and sports writer Shakeia Taylor look back at “Slap Shot,” “A League of Their Own,” “White Men Can’t Jump” and “Bend it Like Beckham.”
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Review: ‘Ferrari’ stars Adam Driver as the Italian automaker — at times it feels stuck in second gear
Director Michael Mann's biopic reinvents no wheels. But it sure knows how to film ‘em.
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Review: ‘Migration’ is an animated family adventure, with a writer’s touch making the journey worthwhile
You can learn a lot about yourself — and those closest to you — on vacation. That’s the theme of the new family animated film “Migration.”
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‘American Fiction’ review: Jeffrey Wright shines in a comedy of a fake Black memoir’s rise to the top of the bestseller list
He plays a largely reactive character, surrounded by bigger, louder personalities, but Wright keeps writer-director Cord Jefferson’s debut feature sharp.
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Review: ‘The Iron Claw’ wrestling biopic has Zac Efron’s best performance yet
Zac Efron stars as Kevin Von Erich and conveys an inherent sweetness and innocence that serves his portrayal as the protective eldest brother.
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12 things to do around Chicago: Our list for the weekend before Christmas
There’s plenty to do, with the Daley Plaza Christkindlmarket just through this weekend — and not everything here is for the holiday-involved among us.
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‘The Color Purple’ review: First-class performers. So why does the musical version feel less authentic than the first film, even?
Like the 1985 film, the new film version of "The Color Purple" based on the Broadway musical works overtime to fabulize Alice Walker's gorgeous novel.
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‘Anyone But You’ review: Down in Australia, much ado about not enough with Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney
Shakespeare's Benedick and Beatrice equivalents meet cute at a coffee shop, then separate at dawn under tense, hurtful circumstances, only to uneasily reunite at a wedding.
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Column: Betty Boop, now Broadway bound, had many influences. One is a remarkable 1920s South Side Chicago story.
Betty Boop, star of a new Broadway-bound musical, "wasn't inspired by a particular person but by the culture," says Fleischer Studios head Mark Fleischer. "That culture was formed by many people, of all races and creeds, and largely by the Black community.”
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Chicagoan of the Year in Film: Screenwriter and director Minhal Baig has been finding new stories to tell
She likens screenwriting to grooming. “I just keep combing a script, like a cat. You know. Get all the tangles out.”
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Things to do around Chicago: ‘Merry Chicago,’ a musical Grinch and holiday blues
It’s all holidays, all the time around Chicago this weekend, including the opening of the annual holiday concert by the CSO.
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NINA METZ
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MICHAEL PHILLIPS
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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.