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I know it's hard to believe, but we are already over halfway through the year. That means it's time for me to unveil my lists of the 20 Best, and 20 Worst Movies at the halfway point of 2025. I do this every year to keep track of my favorite and least favorite films of each year, and to let everyone know which movies to seek out, and which movies to avoid. It also makes it much easier to put my final lists together at the end of the year. This is simply a list of 20 film tit

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