I’ve always been of a firm belief that horror movies should have a point, even if that point is dumb. Many of the slasher movies of the 1980s had a […]

If all you want to know is whether I liked this movie or not, the answer is: No, I did not. And perhaps what made me like it even less […]

The primary reason this new documentary from director Yale Strom (The Last Klezmer, On the Q.T.) exists is to show that there was once a viable candidate for president running […]

I’ll fully admit, I’ve never heard of the 2009 online series “Old Jews Telling Jokes,” but apparently it featured Jewish men and women over the age of 60 telling their […]

Filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev has become something of a master at conveying what many of the dark corners of Vladimir Putin’s Russia look like without saying or showing it outright. It’s […]

Going out on a limb here, I’m guessing this reboot of Death Wish will not play well in Chicago, where it is actually set and appears to have been mostly […]

Netflix’s list of March releases contains a solid variety of cinematic and TV-related treats. In honor of Women’s History Month, moreover, there’ll be lots of original content celebrating the work […]

Considering that Jennifer Lawrence’s history in the action genre has centered on two long-running, highly successful franchises (X-Men and The Hunger Games) built around characters whose personalities and inner workings […]

Pieced together like a patchwork quilt of characters and situations, Nostalgia, the latest from director Mark Pellington (The Last Word, Arlington Road), is about connections—both loose and tight—that people have […]

It opens with Kristin Scott Thomas pointing a gun at you, so you know the latest from Sally Potter (Orlando, The Tango Lesson, Yes), The Party, is going to be […]

Thanks to a smarter-than-expected script (from Mark Perez) and a cast of both funny people and terrific actors (not always mutually exclusive, as it turns out), the new adult comedy […]

Editors Note: this is a repost of an article from Third Coast Review’s Chicago International Film Festival coverage The second feature from Italian-born director/co-writer Andrea Pallaoro (Medeas) is the French-language […]