Film Review: Loving Vincent is a Van Gogh Masterpiece on Screen
You often hear the claim that a film is “unlike anything you’ve seen before,” but in the case of the animated work Loving Vincent, there’s no other way to describe […]
Film Review: The Meyerowitz Stories Is Noah Baumbach at His Best
Already streaming on Netflix and now getting a limited theatrical run (in Chicago, at the Landmark Century Center Cinema) The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) is the latest from writer-director […]
Film Review: The Florida Project is Vital American Filmmaking
What will undoubtedly be one of my favorite films of 2017, writer-director Sean Baker’s The Florida Project follows his previous two exercises in brash (meant in the best possible way) […]
Film Review: The Foreigner is Watchable, and That May Be Enough
In my decades of being a Jackie Chan enthusiast, I never thought I’d see him in an action-enhanced drama fighting against a terrorist group known as “The Authentic IRA.” But […]
Film Review: Professor Marston and the Wonder Women Draws You Into the Story Behind the Heroine
Feel free to put your claims of opportunism aside; there’s no way the makers of the intriguing biopic Professor Marston and the Wonder Women could have possibly known that Patty […]
Chicago Int’l Film Festival’s First Weekend: What to See
The 53rd Chicago International Film Festival is happening now (through October 26), and the Third Coast Review film team got a chance to screen many of the film selections in […]
Our Preview of the 53rd Chicago International Film Festival
The 53rd edition of the Chicago International Film Festival is upon us, beginning tonight (and continuing through October 26), with the Chicago premiere of the historical courtroom drama Marshall, from […]
Film Review: Marshall Beautifully Balances Ambition and Humanity
Editor’s Note: Marshall opens the 53rd Chicago International Film Festival; see our full coverage here. I’m actually a big fan of biopics that take the approach that a famous or […]
Film Review: Moscow Never Sleeps Imbues Modern Russia with a Touch of Humanity
You’d be forgiven if your only exposure to Russia these days is a headline here or an exposé there about election tampering, inappropriate political relationships, or fake ads and news […]
Interview: Chicago International Film Festival Artistic Director Mimi Plauché
North America’s longest-running competitive film festival, the 53rd Chicago International Film Festival begins on Thursday, Oct. 12 at the AMC River East 21 (where almost every CIFF screening will, once […]
Wilmette Theatre Brings a Global Film Festival to Chicago
If you’re one of those moviegoers who hate not having enough time to see all the movies playing at film festivals, the Wilmette Theatre has just the thing to make […]
Film Review: Cold Moon Is a Solid, if Flawed, Indie Horror Flick for October
The latest feature from actor-turned-writer/director Griff Furst (who most recently appeared in such films as The Magnificent Seven and The Founder) is a curious serial killer story for a couple […]