With the new year comes the coldest temperatures in Chicago since…well, since last winter, probably. In what’s traditionally a month for throw-away movie openings (too late to qualify for an […]

To celebrate the new year—and, perhaps, to compensate for the lack of good upcoming theatrical releases—Netflix has put together an exceptionally rich lineup for January. Many of the options (The […]

With families, there’s always something. But with those sharing a bloodline with 67-year-old Izak Szewelwicz, the journey to discovering all of the members of their extended family is not only […]

I’m the damn fool who waits until the year actually ends before rolling out my Best Of… lists, and that’s because I’m often able to squeeze in about a dozen […]

In many ways, it’s a shame that a certain percentage of the audience going to see All the Money in the World will do so out of some sort of […]

This sweeping, swirling look at the life of an Olympic skiing hopeful turned facilitator of one of the most exclusive poker games in the world also marks the directing debut […]

Have you ever watched a movie in which there’s a funeral scene near the end, and the only people in the front row of mourners are the cast members of […]

There are few filmmakers working today who have a more consistent track record at making interesting, thought-provoking treatises on the human condition than Alexander Payne (Election, Sideways, The Descendants, Nebraska). […]

This exquisite biopic from director Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl, The Finest Hours) asks you to consider—or perhaps “reconsider” is the better word—everything you think you know about […]

It’s been more than 20 years since a group of kids unleashed the characters and creatures from an adventure board game called Jumanji onto an unsuspecting world. With this loosely […]

I’ll admit: I’ve been conditioned to assume that if a studio doesn’t screen its film in time for certain groups’ awards consideration, there’s probably a reason for that. As a […]

I’ll see if I can get through this without laughing, but if I can’t, please understand that the giggles are the result of being completely entertained by this wackadoodle sci-fi […]