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A great horror movie dwells deep within Parker Finn's enigmatic “Smile 2,” fighting to come out like Margaret Qualley struggling hard to emerge from Demi Moore's grossly split backside in “The Substance.”

“Conclave” — 3.5 stars If the Academy Awards ever created a special Oscar for “Best Performance by a Furrowed Brow,” Ralph Fiennes would

“Here” — 2 stars“Here” is a conceptually daring but tiresome gimmick movie, a virtually plotless, visually busy anthology of nonintersecting stories spanning zillions of years, and we ...

At Wrigleyville's Alamo Drafthouse Theaters during a Monday night screening of “Heretic,” nimble and unobtrusive staffers swept through the audience, asking about allergies.

“A Real Pain” — 3.5 starsWriter/director/actor Jesse Eisenberg has handcrafted a wonderful gem of a movie wisely titled “A Real Pain.” This compact 89-minute relationship study works w...

“Wicked” — 4 starsThe most popular song from the Broadway musical “Wicked” may very well be “Popular,” but the cinematic piece de resistance in Jon M. Chu’s magnificently mounted...

“Gladiator ll” — 1.5 starsIn the spectacularly violent, 200 AD Roman epic “Gladiator II,” limbs get lopped and heads get chopped, but the majority of casualties die from being talked t...

The provocatively and appropriately titled black comedy “Nightbitch” (it features a female dog) owes its narrative propulsion to Amy Adams' harried, married, emotionally buried Mother of a 4-year-old boy, and wife of a benignly neglectful, stay-away-from-home husband.

This list of the top 10 movies of 2024 should more accurately be called the top 10 movies I have seen in 2024.

“The Brutalist” — 4 starsAustere, foreboding, harsh and intoxicatingly masculine. What’s to like about Brady Corbet’s third movie “The Brutalist”? Not much. This ambitious, novelis...