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Writer/director Martin McDonagh has always cultivated a very dark sense of humor in his plays and films, and in THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN, such sensibilities may have reached their zenith. The [...]

The Shorts series that the Chicago International Film Festival presents each year are a stirring collection of genres such as animation, documentaries, drama, and horror. The frighteners that [...]

The new Danish film THE GREAT SILENCE (Den Store Stilhed) honors its title with a main character who doesn’t say a great deal, even though her stifled angst speaks volumes. Alma (Kristine Kujath [...]

The new film MY POLICEMAN is the kind of movie they used to call a “three-hankie” weeper. It’s an occasionally moving story about a love triangle between three people in 1950s Britain and it’s [...]

Filmmaker Marie Kreutzer weaves deliciously sly symbolism throughout her new period drama CORSAGE, starting with the very first images. She introduces us to Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Vicky [...]

As I watched Cate Blanchett’s superb portrayal of Lydia Tár in the film TÁR, I tried to think back to when a film, fictional or otherwise, presented such a despicable lead female character. Maybe [...]

British horrormeister Clive Barker made a huge name for himself with his novella The Hellbound Heart in 1986 and its film adaptation HELLRAISER in 1987. The story concerned a mystical puzzle box, [...]

In AMSTERDAM, filmmaker David O. Russell has assembled the toniest cast in a movie all year, along with expensive production values, and a script with a timely message about fascism. If only the [...]