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Fall Movie Preview 2023: Let’s spend the season with Napoleon, Poirot and a snowbound Meg Ryan

Anne Hathaway, Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Blunt, Michael Fassbender and Jamie Foxx are among the stars of the most promising movies in the weeks till Thanksgiving.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 5, 2023

‘Scouts Honor,’ a Netflix doc on troop leaders’ abuse of boys, inspires and infuriates

Film focuses on the Boy Scouts’ extensive files of abuse allegations that often were withheld from law enforcement.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 4, 2023

‘Secrets of Penthouse’ revisits a man who prospered by making erotica more explicit

As A&E doc reports, the cartoonishly lascivious Bob Guccione found fame and fortune as a publisher but lost every penny and alienated his children.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 1, 2023

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In ‘The Equalizer 3,’ Denzel Washington stomps Italian bad guys like so many grapes

Villains spoil McCall’s retirement in entertaining franchise entry that works as modern-day ‘Death Wish.’

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 1, 2023

‘The Good Mother’: Hilary Swank broods her way through a muddled mystery

Oscar winner delivers as usual, but she’s stuck in a plot that goes right off the tracks.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 30, 2023

Hilarious ‘Bottoms’ subverts the high school comedy conventions

Story of awkward gay girls trying to score has an edgy, cheerfully warped sense of humor

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 30, 2023

‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah’: Sandler and family star in a comedy blessed with cultural weight

Young Sunny Sandler plays a frazzled teen in Netflix film that leans wonderfully into the culture of the Jewish coming-of-age celebration.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 24, 2023

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‘Gran Turismo’: Product placement gums up the engine of formulaic racing movie

True story of a videogame champ Jann Mardenborough moving to the real track sometimes seems more like a corporate promo.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 24, 2023

‘Retribution’ traps Liam Neeson in his car for a stilted high-speed thriller

Race against the clock slowed by ludicrous dialogue, obvious plot turns.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 23, 2023

Unnerving ‘Perpetrator’ better than your average teen horror film

Bloody thriller, filmed in Chicago, makes some points about women in culture between the laughs and the shocks.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 22, 2023

Great HBO doc ‘BS High’ tells real story of a bogus football team

Heartbroken former players and their con-man coach reveal how Bishop Sycamore, a team attached to no actual school, lined up games against prep powerhouses.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 22, 2023

‘Strays’: Raunchy talking-dog movie stalls when the humor stops and the violence starts

Will Ferrell, Jamie Foxx have us howling as the chatty canines, but the joke wears thin and the tone turns dark.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 17, 2023

‘Blue Beetle’ skitters from sweet family moments to tedious superhero battles

While it’s great to see a Latino get center stage, this is a mostly by-the-numbers origin story with underwhelming VFX and a disappointingly cartoonish villain.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 16, 2023

‘The Adults’: Odd siblings fall back on old habits in a quietly compelling indie gem

Michael Cera delivers subtle greatness as an eccentric man visiting his sisters after years away.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 16, 2023

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Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 15, 2023

Superficial ‘Depp v Heard’ doc gives too much voice to influencers exploiting the trial

Slapdash Netflix show offers very little in the way of analysis about the defamation case, provides platform for commenters spewing vitriol.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 15, 2023

‘Landscape with Invisible Hand’: Aliens snoop on teens’ romance in uneven sci-fi comedy

Repetitive story doesn’t live up to the film’s intriguingly bleak vision of occupied Earth.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 11, 2023

Two telemarketing veterans set out to expose the business’ scams in eye-opening HBO doc

Footage shows the rowdy offices where misfits would work the phones, soliciting donations for bogus charities.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 11, 2023

Netflix’s ‘Heart of Stone’ puts Gal Gadot back in action as a spy with many skills

Formulaic but well-filmed thriller sets up the ‘Wonder Woman’ star for a new high-impact franchise.

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Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 10, 2023

‘Red, White & Royal Blue’: Boy meets prince in predictable rom-com

British ‘Spare Heir’ and U.S. president’s son feud, then fall in love.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 10, 2023

Fast-paced ‘Painkiller’ depicts the making, selling and often devastating effects of OxyContin

Netflix limited series recounts Purdue Pharma’s work on the addictive drug from the perspective of its leader, some sellers, an investigator and a victim.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 9, 2023

‘Billions’ offers a wealth of entertaining moments in final season

Axelrod’s back and Prince eyes the White House as Showtime’s swiftly paced series nears a big finish

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 8, 2023

‘Only Murders in the Building’: Meryl Streep, Paul Rudd add to the comic muscle in Season 3

Expanded ensemble on the Hulu mystery series keeps the inspired humor and nifty plot twists coming.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 4, 2023

‘Winning Time’ gives 110% in Season 2 of Lakers antics

Entertaining HBO series gets even better at dramatizing the ’80s adventures of Magic, Kareem, Jerry Buss, Pat Riley and even Larry Bird.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 3, 2023

‘A Compassionate Spy’: Why a U.S. scientist thought leaks to the Soviets would save the world

Doc profiles Ted Hall, a Manhattan Project physicist (and sometime Chicagoan) who shared atomic bomb secrets, then spent a lifetime dodging the feds.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 3, 2023

‘Dreamin’ Wild’ warmly tells true story of a man’s teenage dreams coming true decades later

Casey Affleck does strong work as Donnie Emerson, who has trouble enjoying the unexpected success of his old music.

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