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My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review six new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, August 29th, 2025. 1) CAUGHT STEALING Darren Aronofsky  has made a career out of films that feel like endurance tests, searing, confrontational, artistic gut-punches that leave you exhausted, exhilarated, sometimes even wrecked. Requiem for a Dream  destroyed me (I loved it and have only seen it once, because I

A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of immersing myself—almost entirely—in what has become one of my favorite cinematic events of the year: The Chicago Critics Film Festival . This was its 12th edition, and yeah... I was there for six of the seven glorious days. I saw 13 feature films (some incredible, some not so much) and enjoyed two blocks of terrific shorts, all while soaking in the magic that only the Music Box Theatre  on Southport can provide. Now, for those of y