The President’s Wife” is most concerned with uplifting its lead lady in all her schemes, sarcasm, and competence, and this it ...

The rest of the movie trails after Riley as she works up the nerve to do what the audience (and, eventually, its surrogate) ...

Ang Lee’s ahead-of-its-time classic “ The Wedding Banquet ” was marked by the same qualities too, in navigating the tale of a ...

In “ The Ugly Stepsister ,” an impressively gruesome feature debut from Norwegian writer-director Emilie Blichfeldt (now in theaters), the titular character is Elvira (Lea Myren), the eldest child of ...

Like the Chicago International Film Festival, CLFF spans multiple movie venues, and, over its four decades, it has bounced around, now primarily calling the Landmark Century Centre Cinema in Chicago’s ...

A Minecraft Movie” is a perfectly calibrated light entertainment. At certain points, it reminded me of that mid’-80s run of ...

“#1 Happy Family USA” is a biting, insightful, and clever social animated satire, perfect for Youssef’s fanbase. In the age ...

We’ve seen a lot of Sherlock Holmes variations. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories debuted way back in 1887, and it seems like every few years now, we get a new take on the master logician. The CW is ...

From there, “The Rehearsal” travels down a rabbit-hole of social anthropology, trying to solve the problem that plagues ...

A report from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies event that took place in the shadow of protests in Chicago last weekend.

Without Arrows” is an ironic title for a film that pierces the heart. It’s a loving portrait of a damaged but unbowed way of ...

Apple TV’s new comedy-drama “Government Cheese” boasts a talented cast. The story is witty, filled with religious references ...