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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

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