Reviews Last Night in Soho is nice to look at but not much else By: Matt Cipolla Edgar Wright's Giallo homage wants to say something about feminism but is too frothy and oversimplified.
Reviews Selena + Chef remains TV’s most chill cooking show in season 3 By: Ashley Lara Selena Gomez continues to charm as her confidence grows in the kitchen, with a little help from celebrity chefs.
Reviews Swagger digs deeper than basketball’s superficial pleasures By: Beau North Swagger, the new AppleTV+ series, shows the risk, support, and effort required to survive as a Black athlete, nevermind realize greater glory.
Reviews Eternals has a bigger canvas, but can’t quite escape the Marvel formula By: Clint Worthington Chloé Zhao's admirable effort to tell an intriguing morality play about the burden of godhood is hampered by all the CG business required of its cinematic universe.
Anniversaries On the Line at 20: still dreadful, but fascinating through a queer lens On the Line, *NSYNC singer Lance Bass' painful Chicago romcom tried to sell a sanitized, straight image of the singer—one that clashed with his true sexuality.
CIFF 2021 CIFF 2021: Spencer, Acts of Love, House of Snails, and More By: B.L. Panther Five of the Chicago International Film Festival's fiction features find truth through craft and performance.
Recap Der erste Deutsch woche offers a new challenge for week five of The Great British Baking Show By: Ashley Lara The Great British Baking Show's fifth episode and first-ever German week requires most of the bakers to step outside their comfort zones.
Recap Succession season 3: episode 2 “Mass in Time of War” recap: Tables turn as war looms By: Ashley Lara Succession's second episode of its third season, "Mass in Time of War," shuffles the players as the Roys prepare to clash.
Columns KinoKultur: Two with Tallulah Bankhead, Maven of Melodrama By: B.L. Panther This week, KinoKultur spotlights Tallulah Bankhead, an icon of Hollywood's early years.
Reviews Invasion is a chilling look at society on the brink of destruction By: Megan Sunday le TV+'s new sci-fi series occasionally relies on well-worn tropes, but is never anything less than gripping and unsettling.
Reviews Wes Anderson offers up another deceptively poignant dollhouse in The French Dispatch By: Clint Worthington The director's latest volume of manicured whimsy will turn off Anderson skeptics, but it's also one of his most vibrant, quotidian efforts to date.
Reviews Locke & Key Season 2 opens up with bigger risks, more interesting choices By: Tim Stevens The Netflix show Locke & Key becomes less faithful to the comic book series's plot, but closer to its tone in Season 2.
Reviews Ron’s Gone Wrong almost, but not quite goes right By: Sarah Gorr The second family film this year to address the dark side of tech, Ron's Gone Wrong unfortunately falls a little flat in execution.
CIFF 2021 CIFF Dispatch: Highlights of the non-fiction entries A look at the best in the documentary category of the Chicago International Film Festival.
Reviews Night Teeth is just enough bloody fun By: Michael Frank While the new Netflix feature ultimately runs out of steam, Night Teeth pulses with "just sit back and enjoy the ride" fun for a solid hour.
Reviews Sex, Love, and goop struggles to find its tone By: Ashley Lara Caught between reality TV titillation and earnest exploration of sex and relationships, Sex, Love, and goop's unlikely to convert skeptics.
Reviews Red Rocket achieves lift-off with Simon Rex’s performance By: Jonah Koslofsky Writer-Director Sean Baker creates another deeply humanistic film of people bound for disaster in the Simon Rex-starring Red Rocket.
Reviews The Electrical Life of Louis Wain provides spectacle, little substance By: Soham Gadre Benedict Cumberbatch gives a big performance in The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, a film that offers little insight into the artist's life.
Recap Not all is sweet treats in The Great British Baking Show’s episode 4 dessert week faceoff Structure proves the undoing of more than one competitor in The Great British Baking Show Season 12 Episode 4.
Recap Succession Season 3 Episode 1 “Secession” recap: The war is on By: Reyzando Nawara The season premiere doesn't miss a beat as sides are chosen, and strategies are planned.
Reviews Halloween Kills some time & the viewer’s patience By: Gena Radcliffe David Gordon Green’s follow-up to the 2018 reboot offers an astonishing body count, but little else worthwhile.