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It’s kind of blowing my mind a little bit that the Chicago Critics Film Festival is now in its 13th year. Thirteen. That’s not nothing. That’s not some fly-by-night thing anymore, that’s a tradition. And I remember the beginning of this thing like it was yesterday. Back in 2013, a bunch of my friends and colleagues from the Chicago Film Critics Association (Erik Childress, Steve Prokopy, Peter Sobczynski, Collin Souter, Brian Tallerico, and a whole crew of incredibly passiona

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