Archives from 2017

An ordered sequence of hits documenting my ever-changing moods over the course of a year

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Guillermo del Toro's new movie, both a political thriller and an interspecies love story, is one of 2017's best

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How many films have taken us behind the scenes of a movie set, revealing the controlled chaos that gives life to the mercurial creative genius?

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Denzel Washington adds another vivid character to his impressive list of memorable roles

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Frances McDormand is the angry mother of a murder victim in one of the holiday season's most eagerly awaited films

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Greta Gerwig proves as fine a writer-director as she is an actress in heralded new movie

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The latest film from Sean Baker is a modern call to love the lowest and least-protected in society.

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As the end of 2017 approaches, it is time to consider that it might come to be defined, movie-wise, as a year of Wonders.

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The young actor has two good films out about men struggling with the costs of fighting in war and against devastating wildfires.

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The Cincinnati-specific markers portray a contemporary version of the city and not some time-displaced version of New York, like other films.

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Chadwick Boseman excels as a young Thurgood Marshall in a film set long before his time as the country’s first African-American Supreme Court justice.

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The FADE2BLACK Film Festival comes to the University of Cincinnati Thursday through Sunday.

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The setting is now even more of an existential grind.

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"Woodshock" takes viewers on a dreamy trip, telling the story of Theresa, who works for a legal marijuana dispensary where a new strain of weed exists.

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"Battle of the Sexes" tells the true story of the highly promoted 1973 exhibition match between tennis players Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs.

Tags: Movies & TV, Battle of the Sexes, Billie Jean King, Emma Stone, Film, Steve Carell

The rare — and good — new Yiddish-language movie comes to Mariemont Theatre.

Tags: Movies & TV, Film, Joshua Z. Weinstein, Mariemont Theatre, Menashe, Menashe Lustig

On Sept. 23, the organization will turn Over-the-Rhine alleys and side streets into a mock movie theater for a party called Backlot 30.

Tags: Movies & TV, Backlot 30, Film, Film Cincinnati, Kristen Schlotman

Check out some of the films critic tt stern-enzi is particularly excited about.

Tags: Movies & TV, Awards Season, Film, Toronto Film Festival

Documentary "Whose Streets?" captures the determination and resolve of the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Tags: Movies & TV, Black Lives Matter, Damon Davis, Film, On Screen, Sabaah Folayan, Whose Streets?

This film from Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Taylor Sheridan is a spiritual sequel of sorts to both his "Hell or High Water" and "Sicario."

Tags: Movies & TV, Film, Hell or High Water, On Screen, Sicario, Taylor Sheridan, Wind River