Tuesday

08-07-2025 Vol 19

Day: May 21, 2025

Cannes 2025 Video #4: Brian Tallerico on Mission Impossible, The Phoenician Scheme, My Father’s Shadow, Secret Agent

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival is underway, and Chaz Ebert is on the ground to report on every development. In today’s video,…

The Red Carpets of the 2025 Chicago Critics Film Festival

Celebrating its twelfth year, the Chicago Critics Film Festival returned with a robust lineup of over two dozen films and…

Cannes 2025: The Secret Agent, The Love That Remains, Magellan

Bearing no relation to the Joseph Conrad novel, the competition entry “The Secret Agent,” from the Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça…

Lookin’s Free: Joe Don Baker (1936-2025)

Joe Don Baker was one of the first to teach me what screen acting was. As a kid, I was…

“Nine Perfect Strangers’” Second Season is Less Insightful, Still Somewhat Fun

“Nine Perfect Strangers” started as a maximalist show, with Nicole Kidman bewitching those around her as Masha Dmitrichenko, the Eastern…

Cannes Review: The Secret Agent is a Rousing, Unsettling Thriller from Kleber Mendonça Filho

When Armando (Wagner Moura) finally resolves to seek a fake passport and one-way ticket out of Brazil for himself and…

Cannes Review: Harris Dickinson’s Urchin is a Thoughtful and Adventurous Directorial Debut

A few scenes into Urchin, we take a trip through the Bardo. First the camera (as in a million films…

Cannes Review: Peak Everything is a Romantic Dramedy That Finds Levity in the Anxieties of Societal Ills

While there’s the oft-repeated observation that every generation thinks they are living through the end of the world, the maelstrom…