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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

I enjoy wearing pants, nice pants. I particularly enjoy wearing my Film Critic Pants. They fit, they are on, and I am ready to review four new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, May 30th, 2025. 1) BRING HER BACK Let's just say it: Bring Her Back  is one of the worst horror films of the year. And that's saying something because 2025 has already been loaded with cheap, pretentious, pseudo-elevated horror flicks that think they're smarter than they a

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