While it is always a joy and privilege to travel for film festivals, there’s nothing quite like enjoying one from the comfort of one’s home city. That’s what makes the Chicago International Film Festival so special; for almost two weeks, the city’s artists, creatives, and cinephiles gather to watch a diverse array of films from

“The Fall,” now finally available on Mubi and getting a theatrical release from the company, feels impossible. It’s one of those films that’s richly steeped in the history of cinema while also expressing itself through a unique, special voice. Of course, no one got it. The story goes that, fifteen minutes into its TIFF launch,

Presented in the New York Film Festival’s Currents section, a complement to the main-slate selection that traces “a more complete picture of contemporary cinema with an emphasis on new and innovative forms and voices,” as per the programmers, all three films covered in this dispatch sit curiously between narrative and documentary traditions, challenging our ability

A beloved high school quarterback is fooling around with his secret girlfriend at her home. A sudden knock on the bedroom door startles them both. Petrified, the girl hustles her boyfriend into her closet, yelling, “Just a minute!” to her mother. The door opens, and a man in a scary mask attacks the girl, who

While some of the flaws of the first year of Apple’s hit “Shrinking”—nominated for a pair of Emmys, including Best Actor—remain at the start of the sophomore outing, this is the year in which the Jason Segel dramedy really finds its voice, confidently balancing its comedic and emotional currents in a way that’s entertaining and

The Chicago International Film Festival returns this week for what is arguably its most ambitious program to date, an appropriate feat given the fest is also celebrating its 60th anniversary. The variety and scope of this year’s program is arguably unmatched, continuing the momentum garnered last year when the fest hosted the Chicago premieres of

Lara Croft has had many death-defying adventures across the decades of the “Tomb Raider” video game franchise. The biggest puzzle for this iconic character has been her inability to find a worthy adaptation in other formats. The silly, Angelina Jolie-led duology was kitschy, and the reboot with Alicia Vikander, meant to resemble the Crystal Dynamics-developed

London isn’t what you think. Or at least, it’s not what I thought it was. I moved here from the States back in 2016 and was shocked to find that it doesn’t perpetually rain. Not really, anyway. It drizzles. It’s gray. It’s a mild climate year-round, but it also gets weirdly hot and bone-chattering chilly.

What you need to know about Hulu’s, Spanish-language “La Máquina” is that Diego Luna is downright hilarious in it. The six-part show follows old friends (and “Y Tu Mamá También” co-stars many years ago) Gael García Bernal and Luna as boxer Esteban “La Máquina” and his agent Andy. Is García Bernal totally convincing as an

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