Bill Stamets

The film is extremely rich in visual inventiveness and depth of feeling — with numerous sequences that could almost pass muster as individual shorts.

This moving, Oscar-nominated documentary is an odyssey of a tragic observer.

Michael Caplan’s Algren is a beguiling appreciation of the novelist, reporter and essayist.

Algren admirer Kurt Vonnegut, a novelist and a Long Island neighbor, called the Chicago exile ”the loneliest man I ever knew.” Caplan and Mueller invite viewers to befriend this contrary figure.

[Kirby Dick's] new documentary enrages, yet makes its case in an even-tempered manner.

Hogtown is the most original film made in Chicago about Chicago to date.

Resisting screen rules is Godard’s forte.

The masterful script deals with telling words.

Servillo charms in his dual turn, then takes it up a notch when one brother shows off his childhood knack for impersonating his look-alike.

A paean to creative impulses, this work channels the vision of Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi.