“Ammonite” writer-director Francis Lee drops hints like little anvils about the carnality on this 19th Century love story's horizon

Chicago backstories of "Mank" and the real stories behind them, coming to the movies and Netflix.

A great screenwriter writes "Citizen Kane," and Netflix scores another prestige success

"Even now my authority is not safely to be disputed.” Who said this: A. Napoleon; B. Mussolini; or C. Trump? Hint: There's more than one right answer

Gratifyingly, Diane Lane has learned to do less and less on camera — less acting, that is, and more being.

The 2020 Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival runs Nov. 5-22 with a Robert De Niro comedy and a news-making documentary about Pope Francis. There will be a boat-in James Bond double feature, drive-in sing-along “Grease,” screenings in local restaurants, films on a massive IMAX screen and on the phone in your hand.

“I’d like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso," Sean Connery once said. Happily for all of us, he accomplished far more than that

"The Queen's Gambit" isn't important, or "improving." It's just irresistible, that's all.

A boy on the autism spectrum meets a potential new friend online in Jacob Chase's derivative but stylish expansion of his own short film

A great screenwriter writes "Citizen Kane," and Netflix scores another prestige success

"Even now my authority is not safely to be disputed.” Who said this: A. Napoleon; B. Mussolini; or C. Trump? Hint: There's more than one right answer

Gratifyingly, Diane Lane has learned to do less and less on camera — less acting, that is, and more being.

The 2020 Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival runs Nov. 5-22 with a Robert De Niro comedy and a news-making documentary about Pope Francis. There will be a boat-in James Bond double feature, drive-in sing-along “Grease,” screenings in local restaurants, films on a massive IMAX screen and on the phone in your hand.

“I’d like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso," Sean Connery once said. Happily for all of us, he accomplished far more than that

There's a weird through-line to "Clerks" and "Dogma" filmmaker Kevin Smith's life, and it goes by two words: McHenry, Illinois

Seek out “City So Real” either to confirm your suspicions about how this city functions, or to affirm your idea of Chicago as the brash epitome of American character, from politics on down.

This week, the drive-in calendar is overrun with hard-R-rated horror ("The Exorcist"), fright comedies for a broader audience ("Beetlejuice") and "Monsters, Inc." for some warm and fuzzies

"McDonald Trump," Mike Pence and a dubiously compromised but verifiably handsy Rudy Giuliani take it in the shorts in "Borat" sequel. But the thrill of Bush-era satire is hard to replicate in post-humor 2020 America

In the shadow of the U.S. presidential election, four wildly different streaming options ask: What sort of America do we want to make for ourselves?

Tonight only (10/20), the Music Box of Horrors drive-in festival of terror features a stunningly bad, never-released sequel to "Grizzly," featuring boy bands, "Jaws' riffs -- and, in their brief feature film debuts, George Clooney and his mullet

"This kind of public engagement -- it's the opportunity of a lifetime," says newly appointed LA Academy Museum programming head Jacqueline Stewart

The Chicago International Film Festival responds to COVID with a snazzy, delightful trailer

"Rebecca" remake, starring Lily James and Armie Hammer, falls flat.

Middling entry in the Liam Neeson action vehicle genre, but the actors (including Kate Walsh and Jeffrey Donovan) give it their best shot.