We're all using our time in self-isolation differently. For me, it's a lot of watching films that—until a global pandemic had me home 24/7—were blindspots in my viewing history (or as the Tribune's Michael Phillips calls it, the Overdue Film Festival). I recently delighted in an eight-film series of ...

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French filmmaker Cédric Klapisch's latest film is a clever, original romance wherein the two leads, clearly meant to be together, are too busy living their lives as neighbors who never cross paths to ever find time to actually fall in love. Edited with a witty sense of humor that keeps us rooting ...

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It could be that Selah and the Spades, the dark teen drama about cliques at a posh boarding school written and directed by Tayarisha Poe, comes to mean to teens today what the likes of Cruel Intentions or Heathers mean to earlier generations. But honestly, and despite the film's best ...

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When tragedy strikes, attention understandably goes to those impacted by it; in the case of a political assassination, it’s an entire nation that grieves. On the night of November 4, 1995, Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin spoke to a massive crowd gathered at what was then known as Kings of ...

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The title of Ken Loach's latest working-class drama, Sorry We Missed You, is a reference to the notes Ricky (Kris Hitchen) leaves when he can't complete the package deliveries on his route. But it could also refer to what Ricky and his family have missed, how despite doing everything they're ...

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