Alex Garland’s 2018 sci-fi horror film Annihilation shows that not all art is an equation to be solved.
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The true hallmark of a great horror film is its lasting impact. In that sense The Fly is a Grade-A piece of B-movie heaven.
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There's a special thrill in seeing your reality reflected back to you on a giant screen, as The Fugitive, The Blues Brothers, A League of Their Own, and so many other Chicago movies have done for me as a lifelong Chicagoan.
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How the 1993 Harrison Ford film overcame production troubles to become a well-made and deeply satisfying thriller that remains beloved over 30 years later.
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This is a Christmas movie, a love story, and a comedy of manners, but it's also a sweetly specific Chicago movie.
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Everyone 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.
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Movies 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.
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There are many moments in The Sandlot that make it an iconic sports film, but it also holds up as a surprisingly deep experience.
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He 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.
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Shaun 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.
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A 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?
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The Mask of Zorro was our superhero classic before superhero products dominated en masse—the only difference being the costume and the mask.
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A sci-fi comedy featuring a large, mechanical T-Rex with a human brain? That’s cinema at its finest if you ask me.
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12 assertions about Greta Gerwig’s essential, controversial, deeply human movie about dolls—and the movie event of 2023.
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A tour through the indie director’s impressive filmography shows a gentle and genuine kind of love that’s hard to find on screen.
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This 2013 time-traveling romcom is a paean to love in all its forms.
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Beneath the surface of this thrilling creature feature is the beating heart of a familial love story.
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Bridesmaids brilliantly show how weddings, like friendships, can bring out the best and worst in the people you understand more than almost anyone else.
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Seven movies that have given me a greater love and appreciation for the narrative I carry.
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One emotional scene in Pixar’s blockbuster brought home how empathy isn’t about logic—it’s about just being there.
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