1 The Worst Person In The World (Opens February 4) Joachim Trier concludes his informal “Oslo Trilogy” with a mosaic of the myriad mistakes of a modern woman onrushing toward the age of thirty. One of 2021’s small yet immodest miracles.
2 Killer Of Sheep (Siskel, February 14) Charles Burnett’s 1978 Los Angeles-set neorealist masterpiece, an unalloyed treasure, shown in 35mm as part of the Siskel “50/50” yearlong celebration.
3 Cyrano (Opens February 25) Peter Dinklage in a winsome original musical from Joe Wright, the director of “Atonement,” “Hanna” and “The Darkest Hour.”
4 Jackass Forever (Opens February 4) Getting a running jump and a first kick and a punch on John Waters’ 2022 best-of list with a likely final splash of the middle-aged boys.
5 Moonfall (Opens February 4) Roland Emmerich, the last of the self-financing sales-by-territory producers (and kitsch-crafty-kooky “subject for further research” auteurs), shows us the moon is hollow and how that could throw just everything out of whack.
Film Top 5: February 2021 Frances McDormand hits the road and the road hits back; Fred Hampton lights up the screen; a Korean family makes an Arkansas home; a regal if rocked Michelle Pfeiffer; and a pandemic-shot black-and-white relationship fizzle chamber drama.
Film Top 5: February 2020 Siskel marks its thirtieth year of films from Iran; blasts from the past from Otto Preminger, Brian De Palma, Anthony Mann and Rudy Ray Moore.
