The Chicago Critics Film Festival

THE CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL returns to the Music Box for its Eleventh Year! The event, a frequent nominee for Best Film Festival in the Chicago... Read more

Little Women (1994)

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

The March sisters live and grow in post-Civil War America. Starring Winona Ryder, Kirsten Dunst, Christian Bale, Claire Danes, and Susan Sarandon.

Le Samourai

In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts. After carrying out a flawlessly planned hi... Read more

The Dead Don't Hurt

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

The Dead Don’t Hurt is a story of star-crossed lovers on the western U.S. frontier in the 1860s. Vivienne Le Coudy (Vicky Krieps) is a fiercely indepe... Read more

The People's Joker

This revolutionary DIY parody film and hilarious reimagining of the classic autobiographical, coming-of-age story follows an unconfident, closeted tra... Read more

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

When Mats Steen, a Norwegian gamer, died of a degenerative muscular disease at age 25, his parents mourned what they thought had been a lonely and iso... Read more

I Saw the TV Glow

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of... Read more

The Last Stop in Yuma County

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

A traveling knife salesman is stranded and forced to wait at a rural rest stop and suddenly finds himself in the middle of a violent hostage situation... Read more

CFCA Shorts Program #2

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

SHORTS INCLUDEDBaigal Nuur - Lake Baikal - The formation of Lake Baikal in Siberia is reimagined with hand-painted animation and mixed materials, feat... Read more

Dandelion

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

Dandelion, a struggling Cincinnati singer-songwriter in a downward spiral, takes a last-ditch-effort gig at a motorcycle rally in South Dakota where s... Read more

Flipside

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

When filmmaker Chris Wilcha revisits the record store he worked at as a teenager in New Jersey, he finds the once-thriving bastion of music and weirdn... Read more

What You Wish For

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

Ryan, a chef with gambling problems, meets an old friend in a Latin American villa where he's been hired to cook an elaborate private meal for incomin... Read more

Bringing Out the Dead

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

This tense urban drama from Martin Scorsese stars Nicolas Cage as Frank Pierce, a paramedic on the brink of physical and emotional collapse. Frank has... Read more

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

In the year 2032, the line between humans and machines has been blurred almost beyond distinction. A string of murders perpetrated by a prototype andr... Read more

Gasoline Rainbow

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

Celebrated directorial duo the Ross Brothers (Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets and Contemporary Color) turn their pioneering hybrid approach to the cinemati... Read more

Good One

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

In India Donaldson’s insightful, piercing debut, 17-year-old Sam (Collias) embarks on a three-day backpacking trip in the Catskills with her dad, Chri... Read more

Handling the Undead

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

On a hot summer day in Oslo, the dead mysteriously awaken, and three families are thrown into chaos when their deceased loved ones come back to them.... Read more

Power

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

In the United States, police have been granted extraordinary power over our individual lives. The police determine who is suspicious and who ‘fits the... Read more

National Anthem

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

Dylan (Charlie Plummer), a 21-year-old soft-spoken construction worker, is the de facto father figure to his little brother and works odd jobs to help... Read more

Ghostlight

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

When a construction worker unexpectedly joins a local theater's production of Romeo and Juliet, the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life.

2024 HUMP! Film Festival

HUMP! is a lovingly curated festival of short erotic films made by real people for real people. The filmmakers and stars show us hot and sexy, creativ... Read more

The Holy Mountain

A Mexican master (Alexandro Jodorowsky) leads a Christ figure (Horacio Salinas) and other disciples to a mountain of immortal wise men.

The Chicago Film Society Presents

The Chicago Film Society comes to the Music Box for all-celluloid screenings of classic & underseen features, short subjects, trailer reels, and other... Read more

The Ship of Lost Men

Part of: The Chicago Film Society Presents

A Frenchman who established his directorial renown in New Jersey in 1914 when the infant industry was still working out the grammar of feature-length... Read more

Apollo 13

Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) and Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon)... Read more

I Like Movies

Burlington, Ontario, 2003. Hyper-ambitious teenage cinephile Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen) dreams of attending film school at NYU’s Tisch School... Read more