“One Battle After Another” Wins Record Number of Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
The winners of the 2025 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards.
Festivals & Awards
“One Battle After Another,” “Sinners” Lead Chicago Film Critics Association Nominees
The 2025 Chicago Film Critics Association nominees.
Reflections on the 2025 Tailinn Black Nights Film Festival
A recounting of time spent at the Estonian film festival.
No Good Deed Will Go Unpunished: Kleber Mendonça Filho and Wagner Moura on “The Secret Agent”
We speak to the writer/director and star of this year’s Cannes favorite about censorship, artistic collaboration, and more.
Tokyo Film Festival 2025: “Demon Pond” and Japanese Yokai Culture
Our final dispatch from the fest is full of monsters, folktales, and ghost stories.
It’s The Funniest Shit: Hikari on ‘Rental Family’
An interview with the writer/director of “Rental Family.”
Tokyo Film Festival 2025: Mamoru Oshii on “Angel’s Egg”
An interview with a legend about his resurrected project.
Tokyo Film Festival 2025: “Mother Bhumi,” “Morte Cucina,” “We Are the Fruits of the First,” “Tunnels: Sun in the Dark”
Three more films from the Tokyo Film Festival
Tokyo Film Festival 2025: Journey into Sato Tadao
We talk to Japan’s preeminent film critic as a documentary about him premieres at Tokyo’s premier festival.
A Preview of the 2025 Black Harvest Film Festival
A preview of the 2025 Black Harvest Film Festival.
Criterion Mobile Closet Steered Through Chicago International Film Festival Amid An Intense Political Weekend
A report on the Criterion Mobile Closet’s visit to Chicago.
CIFF 2025: One Golden Summer, Before the Call, Adult Children, Only Heaven Knows
On four Chicago productions from this year’s fest.
CIFF 2025: The Book of Sijjin & Illiyyin, The Holy Boy, Anything That Moves
On three films from this year’s After Dark program in Chicago.
CIFF 2025: True North, Pasa Faho, Sun Ra: Do the Impossible
On three films from Chicago’s Black Perspectives program.
CIFF 2025: The Beauty of the Donkey, The Eyes of Ghana, Below the Clouds
On three ambitious documentaries from this year’s Chicago film festival.
