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Entertainment, Film and TV, Chicago International Film Festival 2022, Capsule Review Nestor Kok 10/28/22 Entertainment, Film and TV, Chicago International Film Festival 2022, Capsule Review Nestor Kok 10/28/22

CIFF 2022 | ‘Chile ‘76’ review: A sharp, sensitive reckoning with Chile’s darkest year

Manuela Martelli draws on the fraught history of her family and home country to weave a haunting tale of life during civil wartime.

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Entertainment, Film and TV, Chicago International Film Festival 2022, Capsule Review Nestor Kok 10/28/22 Entertainment, Film and TV, Chicago International Film Festival 2022, Capsule Review Nestor Kok 10/28/22

CIFF 2022 | ‘Huesera’ review: Motherhood has never been more nightmarish

As thoughtful and intricate as it is visceral, Michelle Garza Cervera’s debut horror feature makes a scream queen out of rising star Natalia Solián.

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Entertainment, Film and TV, Chicago International Film Festival 2022, Capsule Review Nestor Kok 10/27/22 Entertainment, Film and TV, Chicago International Film Festival 2022, Capsule Review Nestor Kok 10/27/22

CIFF 2022 | ‘Somewhere Over The Chemtrails’ review: Absurd Czech dramedy that falls a little short

Adam Koloman Rybanský and his friends aim for the stars with their debut full-length dramedy, but get lost somewhere in the clouds (and the chemtrails) instead.

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Entertainment, Chicago International Film Festival 2022, Film and TV, Capsule Review Nestor Kok 10/26/22 Entertainment, Chicago International Film Festival 2022, Film and TV, Capsule Review Nestor Kok 10/26/22

CIFF 2022 | ‘The Kings of the World’ review: Magic and menace abound in Laura Mora's mythopoeia

Colombia’s official Oscars entry for 2023 is a haunting, phantasmagoric reinvention of the Monomyth that should not be overlooked.

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Entertainment, Film and TV, Chicago International Film Festival 2022, Capsule Review Nestor Kok 10/26/22 Entertainment, Film and TV, Chicago International Film Festival 2022, Capsule Review Nestor Kok 10/26/22

CIFF 2022 | ‘Corsage’ review: Fierce, uncompromising feminist discourse unlike any other

Vicky Krieps gives a once-in-a-lifetime performance as an empress out of time in Marie Kreutzer’s feminist fable for the ages.

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Entertainment, Chicago International Film Festival 2022, Film and TV, Review Nestor Kok 10/25/22 Entertainment, Chicago International Film Festival 2022, Film and TV, Review Nestor Kok 10/25/22

CIFF 2022 | ‘Pacifiction’ review: A Lynchian lucid dream that will leave you reeling

Catalan auteur Albert Serra returns with another intricately-crafted atmospheric drama in which answers are ever out of reach.

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