What role does a show about a depressing, tech-addicted future play in a depressing, tech-addicted 2025? It’s been fascinating to…
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CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL Announces Full Program Lineup, Special Guests and Recipients of 2025 Emerging Critics Grant 12th Annual Festival…
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Alex Garland’s worlds, even those in the more fantastical realms of “Ex Machina,” “Dredd,” and “Annihilation,” find as many ways…
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Val Kilmer died last week of pneumonia after a long struggle against the cancer that took his voice. He left…
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I find it challenging to review “found footage” documentaries where the primary focus is on the footage itself. You watch…
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Anyone who has played the games on which HBO’s “The Last of Us” is based knows that things are about…
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In Stephen Cognetti’s “Hell House” films, a character carrying the camera, and us within it, walks for what feels like…
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Michael Shannon’s feature directorial debut, “Eric LaRue,” is of a piece with the anguished psychological dramas for which he’s acclaimed…
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When Microsoft acquired developer Compulsion Games in 2018, all eyes were on the studio to see what it could deliver…
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