In a new monthly series in the Screens section, we’ll highlight some of the film happenings around Chicago, from major theatrical openings to arthouse screenings and independent events. This month, […]

A film so authentic in its portrayal of the slow, painful dissolution of a marriage, France’s After Love takes a fly-on-the-wall approach at observing the emotionally destructive dance taking place […]

Veteran cinematographer-turned-first-time-director Michael Barrett (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) and in-demand screenwriter Simon Barrett (You’re Next, The Guest, Blair Witch) combine scary forces with Temple, a U.S.-Japanese co-production that pays homage […]

Some sequels are a natural extension of what has come before. Others are an exercise in assembling nearly all of the cast from the previous film and finding ways to […]

A little gem of a suspense thriller is being given a limited release this week from director/co-writer Dan Glaser. Although the story is much different than the currently in release […]

I’m still not entirely sure why writer-director-actor Lake Bell (who last helmed the appealing In A World…) chose the making of a documentary about marriage as the framework for her […]

When 18-year-old Colin Warner was arrested for murder in 1980, I’m guessing he believed the truth—and a lack of credible witnesses—would set him free. But the type of shoddy defense […]

Hellooo, loyal 3CR readers. Starting this month, I’ll be publishing “New on Netflix,” a regular column in which I highlight movies worth checking out from the large number of films […]

This is not so much a review as a reminder that James Cameron’s 1991 Terminator 2: Judgment Day is still one of the most perfectly paced and high-energy action films […]

This French production from co-directors Éric Summer and Éric Warin (the latter of whom was in the art department on The Triplets of Belleville) has been dubbed in English and […]

The ideas that feed into director Michael Almereyda’s screen adaptation of the much-celebrated, Jordan Harrison-written play Marjorie Prime are quite extraordinary, even if the execution of the movie is flawed […]

Outside of his work on the two Amazing Spider-Man movies, Marc Webb has made some very good movies over the years, as well as a fistful of great music videos. […]