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The Best Villain Performances from John Lithgow. I think we can all agree that John Lithgow is one of the best actors on the planet. A guy with incredible amounts of talent who can do absolutely anything—comedy, drama, heroes, villains, you name it. He’s one of the most versatile actors working today, with a career that has spanned decades, covering everything from stage to film to television. Lithgow started out as a phenomenal stage actor, and his work on Broadway is legen

We had a very rainy week in Chicago, so I'm wearing my Film Critic pants and my Film Critic galoshes to review five new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, March 7th, 2025. 1) MICKEY 17 Simply put, Mickey 17  is one of the year's best movies. I know it's only March, but I doubt I'll see many movies this year as good as this one. It will almost certainly be on my top 10 list at the end of the year—it's that good. Director Bong Joon-ho  is in peak fo

The 60th annual Chicago International Film Festival , with its screenings, special events, tributes, and other events, has ended. It was quite a successful festival that was a pleasure to cover. Here are my final four exclusive reviews of CIFF movies; these will be commercially released or available for streaming in the coming weeks. 1) THE RULE OF JENNY PEN John Lithgow terrorizes Geoffrey Rush in the new horror film "The Rule of Jenny Pen." I didn't do enough reading on thi