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- Film, Movie Review Dec 14, 2018
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In Shoplifters, the sharpest insights are blurred by sentimentality
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s film about an impoverished makeshift family won the Palme d’Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.
- Film, Movie Feature Nov 2, 2018
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How Filip Rymsza finally finished Orson Welles’s The Other Side of the Wind
A tale of a novice producer and a legendary film that no one ever thought would ever play in theaters.
- Film, Movie Review Aug 8, 2018
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BlacKkKlansman retells the true story of a black cop who joined his local Klan chapter
Spike Lee’s latest is set in 1970, but it’s all about 2018.
- Film, Movie Review Jul 19, 2017
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Free will is a bitch in Claude Sautet’s Les Choses de la Vie
Michel Piccoli stars as an emotionally conflicted man rescued from choosing by an awful car crash.
- Film, Movie Review Jun 28, 2017
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Okja is a big-screen fantasy you won’t see on the big screen
Bong Joon-ho, creator of The Host and Snowpiercer, bypasses theatrical exhibition for Netflix.
- Film, Movie Review Nov 17, 2016
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American Honey is an exercise in radical subjectivity
British director Andrea Arnold challenges viewers to hit the road with a gang of runaway kids.
- Film, Movie Review Oct 6, 2016
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In Chronic, a private nurse gets a little too private
Tim Roth stars in this haunting drama from the director of Daniel & Ana.
- Film, Movie Review Jun 9, 2016
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Jacques Audiard’s movies are the kind Hollywood should make
The director’s Palme d’Or-winning Dheepan is yet another film that challenges the conventions of both art-house and mainstream cinema.
- Arts & Culture, Book Review May 19, 2016
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Experience Cannes vicariously by reading Roger Ebert’s journal
University of Chicago Press reprints the film critic’s account of the 1987 edition of the festival.
- Film, Movie Review Aug 12, 2015
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Mom's the word in Xavier Dolan's Tom at the Farm
The Quebecois filmmaker takes another look at maternity in this 2013 drama, finally receiving a limited U.S. release.
- Film, Movie Review Feb 12, 2015
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Manuscripts Don't Burn takes us inside the Iranian police state
Mohammad Rasoulof directed this uncompromising political drama—which may be his last.
- Film, Movie Review Jul 9, 2014
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Blood Ties and Gambit: Two genre films for the grown-ups
Both feature name actors—and both have been marginalized by distributors. Is there no place for serious American cinema?
- Blogs, Bleader May 23, 2014
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God, Godzilla, and the rest of this week's screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 13, 2014
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Weekly Top Five: Un Certain Regard winners
Highlights from the Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard section.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 15, 2013
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Wild Chicago, lost Chicago, and the rest of this week's screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 3, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: Palme d'Or winners
Weekly Top Five: Palme d'Or winners
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 18, 2013
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At CIFF: the immersive nightmare of Heli
First impressions of the troubling Mexican art film, which won the best director prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival
- Film, Movie Feature Oct 9, 2013
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CIFF Director Spotlight: James Gray presents The Immigrant
The man behind Two Lovers and We Own the Night visits Chicago.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 20, 2013
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My full interview with longtime Chicago film programmer Floyd Webb
The creator of Blacklight Cinema, a Chicago film festival that ran from 1982 to 1995, reminisces about the history of black underground filmmaking and his own "adventures in cinema."
- Film, Movie Review Mar 21, 2013
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Caesar Must Die takes Shakespeare to the slammer
Roman prisoners stage Shakespearean tragedy in Caesar Must Die.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 19, 2013
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A written correspondence with Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu
Questions for the director of Beyond the Hills about his work and about Romanian cinema in general
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 3, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: Science fiction, the art of extrapolation
Weekly Top Five: sci-films
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 20, 2012
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Video Drone: What Happened to Kerouac?
A wealth of newly released interview footage gives a kaleidoscopic sense of the Beat Generation's legacy
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 20, 2012
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More Nicholas Ray
Nicholas Ray's final feature, We Can't Go Home Again, and a documentary on its genesis, Don't Expect Too Much, screen tonight at Block Museum of Art
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 16, 2011
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Now playing: The White Reindeer
A preview of the 1952 Finnish feature The White Reindeer, which screens this Sunday.
