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

Sasquatch Sunset

In the misty forests of North America, a family of Sasquatches—possibly the last of their enigmatic kind— embark on an absurdist, epic, hilarious, and... Read more

The Sweet East

THE SWEET EAST is a picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the United States. Lillian, a high school senior from S... Read more

Cinema Femme Short Film Fest 2024

The 6th edition of the Cinema Femme Short Film Fest runs from April 25 – May 2, 2024. This one-of-a-kind festival emphasizes the importance of support... Read more

Cinema Femme Shorts Program 2: Sincerely, Yours

Part of: Cinema Femme Short Film Fest 2024

At 7:30 PM on Wednesday, May 1, join us for Shorts Program 2: "Sincerely, Yours." The title is inspired by our poster illustration this year from Susa... Read more

Cinema Femme Shorts Program 3: P.S.

Part of: Cinema Femme Short Film Fest 2024

At 9:30 PM on Wednesday, May 1, join us for Shorts Program 3: "P.S." The title is inspired by our poster illustration this year from Susan Johnson’s c... Read more

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

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Part of: The Chicago Film Society Presents

In the years since its maiden voyage, Peter Weir’s epic seafaring adventure film has made an inexplicable journey: from respected blockbuster that nev... Read more

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 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

Sing Sing

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

Divine G (Colman Domingo), imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other men who ar... Read more

Cuckoo

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new f... Read more

Sleep

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

SLEEP follows newlyweds Hyun-su (LEE Sun-kyun, PARASITE) and Soo-jin (JUNG Yu-mi), whose domestic bliss is disrupted when Hyun-su begins speaking in h... Read more

Fabulous Fleischer Cartoons

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

The Fabulous Fleischer Cartoons Restored project is one dedicated to gathering and restoring as many of the 700-odd animated shorts produced by Max Fl... Read more

CFCA Shorts Program #1

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

SHORTS INCLUDEDME - A mysterious new musical from Don Hertzfeldt, Academy Award-nominated director of “It’s Such A Beautiful Day” and “World Of Tomorr... Read more

Thelma

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

The feature directorial debut of Josh Margolin, THELMA is a poignant action-comedy that gives veteran Oscar® nominee June Squibb (NEBRASKA) her first... Read more

Babes

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

BABES follows inseparable childhood best friends Eden (Ilana Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau), having grown up together in NYC, now firmly in differ... Read more

In a Violent Nature

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

An ambient slasher that methodically depicts the enigmatic resurrection, rampage, and retribution of an undead monster in a remote wilderness.

Oddity

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

When Dani is brutally murdered at the remote country house that she and her husband Ted are renovating, everyone suspects a patient from the local men... 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.

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 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