This is a Christmas movie, a love story, and a comedy of manners, but it's also a sweetly specific Chicago movie.
Read MoreEveryone has that one movie from their childhood that first introduced them to the magic of cinema. For me, that was Steven Spielberg’s captivating 1977 sci-fi classic.
Read MoreMovies like Greg Mottola’s 2009 comedy Adventureland remind me what it was like to meet that final transitional stage of youth, full of excitement and apprehension in equal measure.
Read MoreThere are many moments in The Sandlot that make it an iconic sports film, but it also holds up as a surprisingly deep experience.
Read MoreHe had a gift unlike anything the world had seen. And in reflecting on his death 10 years later, I realized how that gift changed, guided, and affirmed me—and his young co-stars—in more ways than one.
Read MoreShaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World’s End are effective comedies in their own right, but it’s how they brilliantly meld with other genres that makes them so exceptional and enduring.
Read MoreA sudden crisis with an unknown duration. Increased outdoor interaction with neighbors and friends. Personal and political discontentment spilling out into the public square. Sound familiar?
Read MoreThe Mask of Zorro was our superhero classic before superhero products dominated en masse—the only difference being the costume and the mask.
Read MoreA sci-fi comedy featuring a large, mechanical T-Rex with a human brain? That’s cinema at its finest if you ask me.
Read More12 assertions about Greta Gerwig’s essential, controversial, deeply human movie about dolls—and the movie event of 2023.
Read MoreA tour through the indie director’s impressive filmography shows a gentle and genuine kind of love that’s hard to find on screen.
Read MoreThis 2013 time-traveling romcom is a paean to love in all its forms.
Read MoreBeneath the surface of this thrilling creature feature is the beating heart of a familial love story.
Read MoreBridesmaids brilliantly show how weddings, like friendships, can bring out the best and worst in the people you understand more than almost anyone else.
Read MoreSeven movies that have given me a greater love and appreciation for the narrative I carry.
Read MoreOne emotional scene in Pixar’s blockbuster brought home how empathy isn’t about logic—it’s about just being there.
Read MoreAs a bookish 9-year-old brunette girl, I felt an instant kinship with Belle—an average person who set out to create the life of her dreams.
Read MoreDisney’s forgotten 2000 animated adventure deserves to be excavated and appreciated for the gem it is.
Read MoreDespite being a fan of Frank Capra’s Christmas classic, I was not prepared for the experience I was about to have seeing It’s A Wonderful Life live during the Music Box’s annual extravaganza.
Read MoreEqual parts crime caper, detective story, stoner freakout, and hippy-dippy mystery, 1973’s The Long Goodbye is Robert Altman’s crowning achievement and a crackerjack of a whodunit.
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