As each award was presented individually by various members of the Chicago Film Critics Association, a thought kept entering my head: this has to be making a run for the most awards a single film has ever won from this organization. Sure enough, it was soon confirmed that writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson’s politically charged yet […]
Movie Review – The President’s Cake (2025)
The President’s Cake, 2025. Written and Directed by Hasan Hadi. Starring Banin Ahmad Nayef, Sajad Mohamad Qasem Waheed, Thabet Khreibat, Rahim AlHaj, Muthanna Malaghi, Ahmad Qasem Saywan, Thaer Salem, Fatima Abouharoon, Mohammed Rheimeh, Rokia Alwadi, Abdelkarim Jasim, Maytham Mreidi, and Nadia Rashak. SYNOPSIS: In 1990s Iraq, nine-year-old Lamia must bake Saddam Hussein’s birthday cake. She […]
Movie Review – Eleanor the Great (2025)
Eleanor the Great, 2025. Directed by Scarlett Johansson. Starring June Squibb, Erin Kellyman, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jessica Hecht, Rita Zohar, Will Price, Cole Tristan Murphy, Stephen Singer, Jacob Flekier, Kathryn Mayer, Zach Fike Hodges, Jenna Kray, Lauren Klein, Raymond Anthony Thomas, Elaine Bromka, Tristan Murphy, and Stephen C. Bradbury. SYNOPSIS: After a devastating loss, witty and […]
Movie Review – Goodbye June (2025)
Goodbye June, 2025. Directed by Kate Winslet. Starring Kate Winslet, Toni Collette, Johnny Flynn, Andrea Riseborough, Timothy Spall, Helen Mirren, Stephen Merchant, Fisayo Akinade, Jeremy Swift, and Raza Jaffrey. SYNOPSIS: Four siblings’ lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season. Making her directorial debut, Kate Winslet’s Goodbye […]
Movie Review – Ella McCay (2025)
Ella McCay, 2025. Written and Directed by James L. Brooks. Starring Emma Mackey, Jamie Lee Curtis, Woody Harrelson, Spike Fearn, Ayo Edebiri, Albert Brooks, Rebecca Hall, Jack Lowden, Kumail Nanjiani, Sheetal Sheth, Erica McDermott, Anthony Gaita, Julie Kavner, Becky Ann Baker, Joel Brooks, Troy Garity, Michael Balzano III, Kellen Raffaelo, Pamela Figueiredo, Tierre Diaz, and […]
Movie Review – Fackham Hall (2025)
Fackham Hall, 2025. Directed by Jim O’Hanlon. Starring Thomasin McKenzie, Emma Laird, Damian Lewis, Katherine Waterston, Lizzie Hopley, Tom Felton, Tom Goodman-Hill, Lee Boardman, Ben Radcliffe, Lily Knight, Jimmy Carr, Charlie Rawes, Adam Woodward, Nathan Hall, Alex Butler, Magdalena Sverlander, Tim McMullan, Laurie Ogden, Paula Wharton, Gemma Wardle, and Erin Austen. SYNOPSIS: A new porter […]
Movie Review – Dust Bunny (2025)
Dust Bunny, 2025. Written and Directed by Bryan Fuller. Starring Sophie Sloan, Mads Mikkelsen, Sigourney Weaver, David Dastmalchian, Rebecca Henderson, Sheila Atim and Nóra Trokán. SYNOPSIS: An eight-year-old girl asks her scheming neighbor for help in killing the monster under her bed that she thinks ate her family. As far as cinematic metaphors go, the […]
Movie Review – A Private Life (2025)
A Private Life, 2025. Directed by Rebecca Zlotowski. Starring Jodie Foster, Daniel Auteuil, Virginie Efira, Mathieu Amalric, Vincent Lacoste, Luàna Bajrami, Noam Morgensztern, Sophie Guillemin, Frederick Wiseman, Aurore Clément, Irène Jacob, Park Ji-Min, Jean Chevalier, Emma Ravier, Scott Agnesi Delapierre, and Lucas Bleger. SYNOPSIS: The renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner mounts a private investigation into the […]
Movie Review – The Chronology of Water (2025)
The Chronology of Water, 2025. Written and Directed by Kristen Stewart. Starring Imogen Poots, Thora Birch, Charlie Carrick, Tom Sturridge, Susannah Flood, Esme Allen, Kim Gordon, Michael Epp, Jim Belushi, Earl Cave, Jeremy Ang Jones, Hal Weaver, Eleanor Hahn, Anna Wittowsky, Georgie Dettmer, and Marlēna Sniega. SYNOPSIS: Through loss, love, and self-discovery, a woman transforms […]
Movie Review – Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (2025)
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, 2025. Directed by Emma Tammi. Starring Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, Matthew Lillard, Skeet Ulrich, Wayne Knight, Mckenna Grace, Teo Briones, Freddy Carter, Kellen Goff and Megan Fox. SYNOPSIS: One year since the supernatural nightmare at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, the stories about what transpired there have been twisted into […]
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