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2025 Reviews:
Sharp Corner
Lilly
Every Little Thing
Lavender Men
Bonjour Tristesse
Jimmy in Saigon
On Swift Horses
The Trouble with Jessica
The President's Wife
The Wedding Banquet
EEPHUS
Grand Tour
Sacramento
A Nice Indian Boy
Eric LaRue
Being Maria
The Friend
Viet and Nam
Misericordia
The Penguin Lessons
Magazine Dreams
Asian Persuasion
La Cocina
Mickey 17
There's Still Tomorrow
My Dead Friend Zoe
The Universal Theory
Ex-Husbands
Universal Language
Armand
Rounding
2025 Oscar-nominated Animated Shorts
2025 Oscar-nominated Live-Action Shorts
Jazzy
No Other Land
Love Me
I'm Still Here
The Apprentice
September 5
Hard Truths
The Last Showgirl
Kim's Video
2024 Reviews:
The Fire Inside
Vermiglio
Babygirl
A Complete Unknown
Nosferatu
The Brutalist
Sing Sing
Nickel Boys
Queer
Oh, Canada
Millers in Marriage
Getting Lost
Maria
The Order
Nightbitch
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Flow
Anora
Reinas
The Piano Lesson
Blitz
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Wicked
The World According to Allee Willis
A Man with Sole
Turtle Walker
All God's Children
Emilia Perez
All We Imagine as Light
Okie
Small Things Like These
Christmas Eve in Miller's Point
In the Summers
Dahomey
Chasing Chasing Amy
The Substance
A Real Pain
Music By John Williams
Memoir of a Snail
The House From...
Hangdog
Time Passages
Conclave
My Name is Alfred Hitchcock
We Live in Time
Preview of Chicago Int'l Film
Fest, 2024, Part 2
Preview of Chicago Int'l Film Fest, 2024, Part 1
DAAAAAALI!
Blink
The Outrun
Another Happy Day
My First Film
Lee
Megalopolis
The Summer with Carmen
My Old Ass
Look Into My Eyes
Winner
Lost in the Shuffle
Lover of Men
The Paragon
I'll Be Right There
Merchant Ivory
The Secret Art of Human Flight
The Clean Up Crew
Between the Temples
Chronicles of a Wandering Saint
Close Your Eyes
In the Rearview
Sebastian
Sugarcane
Elizabeth vs. Faye
Running on Empty
The Instigators
Peak Season
Kneecap
Green Border
Daddio
Fancy Dance
Thelma
Reverse the Curse
Treasure
Queen Tut
Hit Man
The Mattachine Family
Tacoma
Ezra
No Ordinary Campaign
Challengers
Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
East Bay
The Greatest Hits
Nowhere Special
The Contestant
The Idea of You
Jeanne du Barry
The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Passed
The People's Joker
Hard Miles
Sasquatch Sunset
Coup de Chance
La Chimera
Wicked Little Letters
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
Golden Years
Uproar
One Life
The Tuba Thieves
Glitter & Doom
Shayda
American Dreamer
They Shot the Piano Player
The Peasants
Io Capitano
Bleeding Love
The Taste of Things
Adam the First
Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive
The Monk and the Gun
Totem
Molli & Max in the Future
Perfect Days
How to Have Sex
Departing Seniors
The Promised Land
Sundance 2024 Online
Recap
Pictures of Ghosts
Racist Trees
Driving Madeline
The Teacher's Lounge
I.S.S.
Freud's Last Session
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
The Zone of Interest
He Went That Way
Apolonia Apolonia
Beyond Utopia
First We Bombed New Mexico
The Missing
Terrestrial Verses
Memory
All of Us Strangers
Desperate Souls, Dark City & the Legend of Midnight Cowboy
2023 Reviews:
Godland
Ferrari
The Boys in the Boat
The Crime is Mine
Society of the Snow
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
American Fiction
Wonka
The Color Purple
Maestro
Concrete Utopia
Poor Things
Eileen
Napoleon
Dream Scenario
Priscilla
Fallen Leaves
May December
Anatomy of a Fall
Killers of the Flower Moon
Showing Up
Saltburn
The Killer
Next Goal Wins
Radical
The Holdovers
Rustin
Fingernails
NYAD
Cat Person
Passages
Fair Play
Flora and Son
Rotting in the Sun
Common Ground
The Mission
The Pigeon Tunnel
The Eternal Memory
Silver Dollar Road
Four Daughters
Disappearance of Shere Hite
Pay or Die
20 Days in Mariupol
Into the Weeds
Cassandro
Scrapper
Dumb Money
Aristotle & Dante...
Fremont
Sitting in Bars with Cake
Between Two Worlds
BlackBerry
Past Lives
The Hill
The Unknown Country
Red, White & Royal Blue
Incredible But True
Last Film Show
Shortcomings
Afire
The Beanie Bubble
Oppenheimer
Barbie
Earth Mama
Theater Camp
20 Days in Mariupol
Mini DV
The YouTube Effect
The League
Biosphere
Persian Lessons
Art and Pep
You Hurt My Feelings
Here.Is.Better
Maggie Moore(s)
Blue Jean
Elemental: Reimagine Wildfire
Liquor Store Dreams
Kandahar
Easy Tiger
White Men Can't Jump
Monica
The Eight Mountains
Elephant (Slon)
Linoleum
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Slava Ukraini
R.M.N.
Moonage Daydream
Winter Boy
Peter Pan & Wendy
Everything Went Fine
Are You There God? It's Me Margaret
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
The Worst Ones
a-ha: The Movie
The Lost King
The Pez Outlaw
Catherine Called Birdy
Palm Trees & Power Lines
Return to Seoul
The Blue Caftan
Bruiser
The Quiet Girl
A House Made of Splinters
Love in the Time of Fentanyl
Nana's Boys
All That Breathes
Body Parts
She is Love
S exual Healing
Close
To Leslie
Joyland
Silent Love
Saint Omer
Broker
Alcarras

2023 DOC NYC:
Shari & Lamb Chop
The Kind Stranger
Happy Campers
The Home Game
Searching for Nika
Nathan-ism
The Walk
Neirud
Caterpillar
Thriee Promises
Uncropped
Psychedelicized: The Electric Circus Story
Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano
Dalton's Dream

Preview of the 2023 Chicago International Film Festival, Part 1
Preview of the 2023 Chicago International Film Festival, Part 2

A Preview of Reeling: Chicago's LGBTQ Film Festival 2023

2023 Sundance Reca p

2023 Oscar nominated Documentary Shorts
2023 Oscar nominated Animated Shorts

2022 Reviews:
Women Talking
The Super 8 Years
Corsage
Argentina 1985
Avatar: The Way of Water
All the Beauty & the Bloodshed
The Balcony Movie
Murina
Triangle of Sadness
EO
Empire of Light
Retrograde
All Quiet on the Western Front
She Said
Free Puppies!
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
Sr.
Leonor Will Never Die
The Inspection
Good Night Oppy
The Fabelmans
Art & Krimes by Krimes
The Automat
Stutz
Holy Spider

2022 DOCNYC:
2nd Chance
Path of the Panther
I'm People, I Am Nobody
The Territory
Cirque du Soliel: Without a Net
Bad Axe
The Art of Rebellion
Loan Wolves
Sam Now
Queen of the Deuce
Big Fight in Little Chinatown
Last Flight Home
My Sister Liv

2022 Chicago International Film Festival #3
Chicago International Film Festival Preview #2
Chicago International Film Festival Preview #1

Waking Up Dead
Descendant
Nothing Compares
Somnium
God's Creatures
All Kinds of Love
The Swimmer
Please Baby Please
Manscaping
Chrissy Judy - Interview with Writer/Director Todd Flaherty
Nelly & Nadine
El Houb
Railway Children
Celebrating Laughter
Apostles
8 Years
In From the Side
Mack & Rita
Peter Von Kant
Nothing but Flowers
Delia's Gone
Exposing Muybridge
Nope
Don't Make Me Go
Fire of Love
The Last Tourist
We Want the Airwaves
Leave No Trace
The Invisible Thread
The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Jerry & Marge Go Large
Downton Abbey: A New Era
All Male: The International Male Story
Karaoke
Blessed Boys
Lynch/Oz
Rounding
Look Me Over Liberace
Emergency
Great Freedom
Our Father
Deception