Movies

You’ve probably heard the term “superhero fatigue” everywhere, with people getting sick of media showing supernatural beings saving the day. Sure, the Marvel Cinematic Universe hasn’t quite reached the same highs as it did during the “Endgame” days, but...

Earlier this year, I had the chance to sit in Chicago’s venerable Music Box Theatre and watch a 25th anniversary screening of “In the Mood for Love,” the masterful and visually ravishing exploration of romantic yearning from Hong Kong...

My favorite episode of the beautifully written and deeply humanistic Season 2 of the Netflix mystery-comedy-drama series “A Man on the Inside” is a “bottle episode,” i.e., an interlude limited to just a couple of primary sets, with the...

It’s not uncommon for actors to have multiple projects come out in a given year; it’s rarer for three of them to be released within weeks of each other. That’s the world that British actor Josh O’Connor is living in....

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of “Siskel & Ebert,” we asked our writers to share their memories and appreciation for the greatest movie review show of all time. Here are their thoughts.ROBERT DANIELSThroughout much of my childhood, my family...

Hikari is a hugger. She’s also a laugher, a believer, and a kinetic source of excitement. When she arrived for our talk, she swooped in sporting a fern green shag coat. She immediately gives the publicist a tender, friendly...

Lyrical and elegiac even while being rooted in hope and tenderness, director Clint Bentley’s “Train Dreams” moves with the grace of a liturgy. The film centers on a logger, Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), whose work building railroads tames America’s vast...

My eighth-grade teacher’s name was Mrs. Hughes. She always told us not to be a bump on a log if she saw that we weren’t using our energy to its full potential. I thought she’d coined the phrase until...

Before I was a friend and colleague, I was a fan.In my early and mid-teens in the 1970s, I was a loner jock/pop culture nerd who was obsessed with these pursuits:Playing and watching baseball and football and to a...