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.
Ray Pride is Newcity’s film critic and a contributing editor to Filmmaker magazine.
His multimedia history of Chicago “Ghost Signs” will be published later this year.
Previews of that project on Twitter (twitter.com/chighostsigns) as well as photography on Instagram: instagram.com/raypride.
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