Film Top 5: January 2022
Suggestions for films to see in January
Film Top 5 of 2021
Film highlights of 2021
Talking Screens, December 24, 2021-January 6, 2022: Holiday Movie Reviews | Chicago Film Critics Association Award Winners
Coming films: “The Matrix Resurrections,” “Licorice Pizza,” “The Tragedy Of Macbeth” and “Don’t Look Up.” Plus, results from the Chicago Film Critics Association’s 2021 awards presentation.
The Revolution Will Be Eventized: A Review Of The Matrix Resurrections
“The Matrix Resurrections” is as slippery toward its characters’ final fantasy as the steampunk squid ships that spiral the bowels of the film’s dark lower world.
Boogie Golden Hours: A Review of Licorice Pizza
Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Licorice Pizza” is a delicious, incident-filled but quietly complex vision of coming of age in the year 1973 in his well-traveled precincts of Encino.
Talking Screens, December 17-23, 2021: Reasons to Like “Red Rocket” and “West Side Story” and to Loathe “Being the Ricardos”
New this week: “Red Rocket,” “Nightmare Alley,” “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” Notable pictures holding over in theaters: “West Side Story” and “Being The Ricardos.” “The Shining” shows as part of the Film Center’s “Let It Snow” series. Chicago Independent Producers Lab applications are open. Plus: “WHY NOT?,” a seventy-five second short by Terence Davies.
Endings, Beginnings And Something In Between: It’s Not The End Of Movies
Will the film industry survive? This season, the all-star team of established, career directors is about to give it their all.
Talking Screens, December 10-16, 2021: Drive My Car Is the Best of 2021 | Let It Snow at Siskel | Nunsploitation Masterpiece at Music Box
“West Side Story” fills wide screens; “Drive My Car” pulls into theaters; “The Unforgivable” debuts on Netflix; Lucille Ball and Ricky Ricardo in “Being The Ricardos”; and “The First Wave” of pandemic lands on Hulu. Joe Swanberg presents his 2014 “Happy Christmas” and the haunting “Winter Sleep” is one of the first attractions in the Film Center’s “Let It Snow” series. Plus: a survey of benedictions offered to Paul Verhoeven’s “Benedetta.”
Talking Screens, December 3-9, 2021: C’mon, C’mon Is So Very Good | Bad Lucking Banging Is Barbed, Funny, Brutal | Get Back Commentary Track
Fine features are hailing down from all over: “Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn,” “The Beatles: Get Back,” “C’mon, C’mon” and “Benedetta.”
Film Top 5: December 2021
December highlights
