The first full day of features at the Paramount (after Opening night premieres of “Road House” and Netflix’s “3 Body…
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True/False is a rare gem. As a critic based in Chicago—whether it’s Cannes, Karlovy Vary, Sundance, SXSW, NYFF, or TIFF—I’m…
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Usually, I make it a rule to not rewatch films at festivals; When my time on the ground is so…
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Like many festivals and observers, True/False, the preeminent nonfiction film festival in Columbia, Missouri, has had displacement on its mind…
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“Road House” likes to explicitly reference that it thinks it’s a Western. It’s more like a cartoon. While that may…
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Opening night at the 2024 South by Southwest Film Festival may have been dominated by Doug Liman’s remake of “Road…
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If you’ve been missing the mind f*ck properties of HBO’s “Westworld,” Netflix has a show for you. You know that…
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It’s Time to Give a FECK: Elevating Humanity through Forgiveness, Empathy, Compassion, and Kindness, launching on May 7, 2024, is a book…
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When selecting movies to screen at the 50th Telluride Film Festival this past August, “The Bikeriders” by director/writer Jeff Nichols…
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When director Maureen Bharoocha sent Rita Moreno the script for the horror-comedy film “The Prank” the EGOT winner had a…
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