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I love it when a sophomore season betters the first since it’s very difficult to do. And as terrific as the first American dramedy series BEEF was, the Netflix series created by Lee Sung Jin has [...]

The cult hit READY OR NOT from 2019 was a horror comedy that not only had fun riffing on the tropes of the genre, but it managed to satirize Agatha Christie, love stories, and devil worship, all [...]

There’s a great movie within the just-opened PROJECT HAIL MARY. Unfortunately, it’s sharing screen time with a sophomoric buddy comedy between Ryan Gosling’s glib scientist and a space alien. The [...]

An art teacher once told me that you can only blend so many colors before getting mud. Writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal has blended a lot of colors in THE BRIDE!, her revisionist take on Mary [...]

It’s a privilege to be able to see the Oscar-nominated shorts and thanks to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences for making them available to the masses through theatrical release [...]

One of the unexpected delights about the Oscar Animated Shorts screening in theaters for a few weeks before the Academy Awards ceremony each year is how adult-centric the cartoons tend to be. [...]

When an idea has been done to death, say an umpteenth production of a play or a reboot of a film franchise, an artist will often try to find a fresher take on the material. Sometimes the new spin [...]

There’s a clever idea in the new sci-fi thriller MERCY. The story takes place in the not-too-distant future where A.I. takes over our justice system via a system entitled Mercy that culls [...]

One of the unfortunate truisms of cinema is that most any presentation of a Christian religion onscreen tends to be a less than flattering portrayal. I enjoyed the movie CONCLAVE last year and [...]

Hello, friends and followers! The Chicago Indie Critics have announced our choices for the best in film 2025 with our Windie Awards and the big winner was SINNERS. SINNERS took home 10 prizes [...]