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A new film series focuses on the impact of Chicago architecture 1
by Leah Pickett | Dec 12, 2016
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You Were Never Really Here updates Taxi Driver to an even colder urban landscape 4
Joaquin Phoenix stars as a hit man who specializes in rescuing child prostitutes.
by Leah Pickett | Apr 12, 2018
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Luke Skywalker still has lessons to learn in Star Wars: The Last Jedi 32
Writer-director Rian Johnson honors the franchise’s long history of pedagogy.
by Leah Pickett | Dec 20, 2017
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Captain Marvel shows that all female-led superhero movies needed was good writing, acting, and direction 7
Carol Danvers isn’t “Just a Girl”: she’s a tough, multifaceted woman.
by Leah Pickett | Mar 8, 2019
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The Oscar-nominated animated and live-action shorts are full of disconnections 2
Can the characters bridge the divides, or will they let the connections die?
by Leah Pickett | Feb 8, 2019
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Vice, Adam McKay's gonzo anti-biopic of Dick Cheney, earns our attention 6
The story itself is less revealing than the telling.
by Leah Pickett | Dec 24, 2018
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald takes place in the Harry Potter universe, but it lacks the magic 9
Just because you can append more films to a bankable franchise doesn’t mean you should.
by Leah Pickett | Nov 15, 2018
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I Am Not a Witch signals the auspicious arrival of a fierce new talent, director Rungano Nyoni
A Zambian girl, falsely accused and imprisoned, refuses to be objectified or underestimated.
by Leah Pickett | Sep 27, 2018