This is a crosspost with Third Coast Review. The most compelling part of White Boy Rick, the true story of a Detroit teenager who became a hustler, an FBI informant and a drug kingpin all before the age of 16, comes at the very end of the film, when a brief epilogue addresses Rick Wershe, Jr.'s ...

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Into an already very strong year of documentaries (Three Identical Strangers, RBG, Won't You Be My Neighbor?) comes a powerful, poignant observation on family, masculinity and coming of age, Minding the Gap.  The first feature film from Bing Liu and produced by Chicago's own Kartemquin, Minding the ...

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Teenage girls are having a moment on screen, from Elsie Fisher's beautifully real turn as a middle schooler in Eighth Grade to Kiersey Clemmons as a college-bound musician in Hearts Beat Loud to Chloe Grace Moretz in the upcoming Sundance Film Festival award winner The Miseducation of ...

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This is a crosspost with Third Coast Review. Based on the synopsis alone—a housewife discovers she has a talent for solving jigsaw puzzles and enters a competition—you'd be forgiven for thinking that Puzzle, directed by Marc Turteltaub, is a quirky, wholesome competition film that fits in ...

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This is a crosspost, also shared at Third Coast Review. En el Séptimo Día (On the Seventh Day) is set in the summer of 2016, and in a way, this timing—recent as it may be—is a small grace as we spend a week with José (Fernando Cardona) and the guys he plays soccer with every Sunday ...

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