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Blogs, Bleader May 9, 2018
Millennium Park free movie schedule announced: Here's what's playing

Read our reviews of every movie playing at the park on Tuesday nights this summer.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Film, Slumdog Millionaire, Get Out, Coco, Millennium Park, Crash, Millennium Park, WALL-E, Man on Wire, School of Rock, Groundhog Day, High Fidelity, Hairspray, Kinky Boots, The Iron Giant, Crash, Mad Max: Fury Road

Blogs, Bleader Oct 23, 2015
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The Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Yona Wallach, Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema, The Amazing Nina Simone, Experimenter, Peter Sarsgaard, Modern Metropolis: Mid-Century Chicago on Film, Chicago Film Archives, Rock the Kasbah, Bill Murray, Afghan Star, Room movie, Lenny Abrahamson, Frank movie, Charles Barton, Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, Chris Costello, Wim Wenders, The American Friend, Robert Bresson, L’Argent, Edmund Goulding, Dark Victory, Bette Davis, Don Siegel, Dirty Harry, George Cukor, My Fair Lady, F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu, Dennis Scott, Tobe Hooper, Poltergeist, La Promesse, Paul Verhoeven, Robocop, Eric Rohmer, The Green Ray, Charles Burnett, To Sleep With Anger, Chicago International Film Festival, Andrew Stanton, WALL-E, Abigail Derby Lewis, Ingmar Bergman, Wild Strawberries, Witchcraft Through the Ages, Chicago International Children's Film Festival, Chicago Rot, The Cockups, Mad Max: Fury Road, Cinema Slapdown, Music Box of Horrors, Video

Film, Movie Review Jun 17, 2015
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Inside Out, soon to be a major emotion picture

In the latest Pixar animation, the mind of an 11-year-old girl becomes the stage for a great adventure.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Inside Out, Peter Docter, Ronaldo Del Carmen, Disney Studios, Pixar, Josh Cooley, Meg LeFauve, Pete Docter, WALL-E, Brave, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 30, 2015
WALL-E, An Affair to Remember, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Film, old movies to watch now, An Affair to Remember, Black Narcissus, Donnie Darko, The Grey, The Master, The Proposal, WALL-E

Blogs, Bleader Nov 30, 2014
The five best Pixar films (yes, it includes at least one Toy Story)

The best films from Pixar Animation Studios
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Pixar, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, CSO at the Movies, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Metropolis, Finding Nemo, Toy Story, the Incredibles, WALL-E, Ratatouille

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
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Pawel Pawlikowski, Ida, Music Box, Ben Sachs, Godzilla, The Cold Lands, The Immigrant, James Gray, Pharaoh, Gene Siskel Film Center, Martin Scorsese, Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Blended, Eroica, Fed Up, Laurie David, An Inconvenient Truth, Katie Couric, God's Pocket, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Pete Dexter, Ilo Ilo, Camera d’Or, Cannes film festival, Jellyfish Eyes, Takashi Murakami, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Adam McKay, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Logan Theater Chicago, Giorgos Lanthimos, Dogtooth, University of Chicago Doc Films, Steven Spielberg, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Godzilla 1954, Music Box, Alfred Hitchcock Psycho, Ernst Lubitsch, The Shop Around the Corner, Andrew Stanton, WALL-E, Alain Resnais, You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet, Chicago Filmmakers, Tatsu Aoki, Logan Center for the Arts, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 14, 2012
Silent Running: Hollywood's greatest plant movie

A movie about plant life in deep space
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Botany Week, Film, Silent Running, Douglas Trumbull, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, The Tree of Life, The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, Bruce Dern, Harlan Ellison, Wall-E, Pixar, Botany Week, Variations on a Theme

Blogs, Bleader Jul 18, 2012
Does Brave have enough room for kids?

Thinking about the Pixar release in light of some advice from Todd Solondz
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Pixar Studios, Todd Solondz, Dark Horse, Filmmaker Magazine, Brave, Up, WALL-E, Ratatouille, Hayao Miyazaki, children's movies, animation, My Neighbor Totoro, City North 14

Blogs, Bleader May 25, 2012
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Film Center presents a digital restoration of The Gold Rush and other notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Gene Siskel Film Center, Charles Chaplin, The Gold Rush, Elia Kazan, Wild River, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Battleship movie, Ben Sachs, Hick movie, Chloe Grace Moretz, Hysteria movie, Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Man Who Will Come, Marzabotto, Men in Black 3, Polisse movie, Wallander: The Revenge, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve, Northbrook Public Library, Peter Jackson, Dead Alive, Music Box, Steven Spielberg, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, Lee Chang-dong, Poetry movie, Doc Films, Josef von Sternberg, The Scarlet Empress, Claire Denis, 35 Shots of Rum, Block Museum of Art, River East 21, Crown Village 18, Pixar, Ratatouille movie, Up movie, WALL-E, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 18, 2008
They're lovin' it

The Chicago Film Critics Association has spoken.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Film Critics Association, Richard Roeper, Dann Gire, Daily Herald, The Dark Knight, WALL-E, The Wrestler, Mickey Rourke, Rachel Getting Married, Anne Hathaway, Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire, Man on Wire, Let the Right One In, Heath Ledger, Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Simon Beaufoy, Kate Winslet, The Reader

Blogs, Bleader Dec 9, 2008
Best films of 2008, west coast installment

Los Angeles Film Critics Association names WALL-E the year's best movie.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Penelope Cruz, The Dark Knight, WALL-E, Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire, Milk, Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Sally Hawkins, Sean Penn, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Elegy, Heath Ledger

Blogs, Bleader Jul 21, 2008
Rabbit punch

Who needs WALL-E? Pixar's Presto is the real winner here.
- By Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Ratatouille, Presto, WALL-E, Doug Sweetland, Pixar Studios, Road Runner and Coyote, Termite Terrace

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Millennium Park free movie schedule announced: Here's what's playing

Read our reviews of every movie playing at the park on Tuesday nights this summer.

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The Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Video
Inside Out, soon to be a major emotion picture

In the latest Pixar animation, the mind of an 11-year-old girl becomes the stage for a great adventure.

WALL-E, An Affair to Remember, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.

The five best Pixar films (yes, it includes at least one Toy Story)

The best films from Pixar Animation Studios

Video
God, Godzilla, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Silent Running: Hollywood's greatest plant movie

A movie about plant life in deep space

Does Brave have enough room for kids?

Thinking about the Pixar release in light of some advice from Todd Solondz

Video
Film Center presents a digital restoration of The Gold Rush and other notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

They're lovin' it

The Chicago Film Critics Association has spoken.

Best films of 2008, west coast installment

Los Angeles Film Critics Association names WALL-E the year's best movie.

Rabbit punch

Who needs WALL-E? Pixar's Presto is the real winner here.

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Read our reviews of every movie playing at the park on Tuesday nights this summer.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

In the latest Pixar animation, the mind of an 11-year-old girl becomes the stage for a great adventure.

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.

The best films from Pixar Animation Studios

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

A movie about plant life in deep space

Thinking about the Pixar release in light of some advice from Todd Solondz

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

The Chicago Film Critics Association has spoken.

Los Angeles Film Critics Association names WALL-E the year's best movie.

Who needs WALL-E? Pixar's Presto is the real winner here.

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