The Chicago Critics Film Festival

THE CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL returns to the Music Box for its Thirteenth Year! The event, a seven-time nominee for Best Film Festival in the Chic... Read more

The Invite

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

Joe and Angela’s marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected pl... Read more

The Fly

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

When scientist Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) completes his teleportation device, he decides to test its abilities on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a hou... Read more

Decorado

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

Something is wrong in the city of Anywhere. Arnold, an unemployed middle-aged mouse, confides to his wife Maria that he suspects his entire world is n... Read more

The Chicago Critics Film Festival

THE CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL returns to the Music Box for its Thirteenth Year! The event, a seven-time nominee for Best Film Festival in the Chic... Read more

CFCA Shorts Program #1

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

SHORTS INCLUDEDCandy Bar - A young girl thinks a man in the candy bar line looks like her dad. Directed by Nash Edgerton. (6 min.) Vampire - A young m... Read more

Tuner

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

A talented piano tuner's meticulous skills for tuning pianos lead him to discover an unexpected aptitude for cracking safes, turning his life upside d... Read more

Carolina Caroline

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

Acclaimed director Adam Carter Rehmeier’s romantic crime thriller stars Samara Weaving (READY OR NOT, BORDERLINE) as Caroline Daniels, whose desire to... Read more

Power Ballad

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

When Rick (Paul Rudd), a past-his-prime wedding singer, meets fading boy-band star Danny (Nick Jonas) during a gig, the two bond over music and a late... Read more

I Want Your Sex

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

When fresh-faced Elliot lands an exciting job for renowned artist, icon and provocateur Erika Tracy, his fantasies come true as Erika taps him to beco... Read more

The Chicago Critics Film Festival

THE CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL returns to the Music Box for its Thirteenth Year! The event, a seven-time nominee for Best Film Festival in the Chic... Read more

You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

On June 1, 1972, a humble production of a hit musical retelling of the Book of Matthew officially opened its run at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in dow... Read more

CFCA Shorts Program #2

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

SHORTS INCLUDEDOne Sentence - An aged man attempts to create a sentence that defines his life. Directed by Stephen Tronicek. (4 min.) Coyotes - A Pale... Read more

Maddie's Secret

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

MADDIE’S SECRET is comedian, writer, and actor John Early’s critically acclaimed directorial debut starring himself as Maddie, a plucky dishwasher who... Read more

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

A robotic boy, the first programmed to love, David (Haley Joel Osment) is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee (Sam Robards) and his wife... Read more

The Chicago Critics Film Festival

THE CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL returns to the Music Box for its Thirteenth Year! The event, a seven-time nominee for Best Film Festival in the Chic... Read more

The Last One for the Road

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

The bottom has fallen out for Carlobianchi and Doriano, two small-time Italian crooks. They haven’t been able to mount an honest scam since the 2008 f... Read more

When A Witness Recants

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

In 1983, noted author Ta-Nehisi Coates remembers learning that a 14-year old boy was murdered in the corridor of his Baltimore middle school. Revisiti... Read more

Time and Water

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

Facing the death of his country’s glaciers and the loss of his beloved grandparents, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason turns his archives into a ti... Read more

The Chicago Critics Film Festival

THE CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL returns to the Music Box for its Thirteenth Year! The event, a seven-time nominee for Best Film Festival in the Chic... Read more

If I Go Will They Miss Me

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

Twelve-year-old Lil Ant transforms his working-class neighborhood beneath the LAX flight path into a living mythology, where family members become god... Read more

Chili Finger

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

When Jessica Lipki discovers a severed human finger in her bowl of chili, she blackmails the regionally-beloved fast-food chain for $100,000 in return... Read more

Black Zombie

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

BLACK ZOMBIE digs beneath the blood-soaked spectacle of modern horror to uncover the zombie’s buried and unsettling origins. From flickering Hollywood... Read more

The Chicago Critics Film Festival

THE CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL returns to the Music Box for its Thirteenth Year! The event, a seven-time nominee for Best Film Festival in the Chic... Read more

Romería

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

Marina, orphaned at a young age, must travel to Spain’s Atlantic coast to obtain a signature for a scholarship application from the paternal grandpare... Read more

Loafers

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

Amid a post-grad haze, best friends Isaac and Cameron navigate the shifting terrain of their relationships, grappling with the deeper question of whet... Read more

Something Wild

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

Free-spirited Lulu (Melanie Griffith) sets her sights on uptight banker Charles (Jeff Daniels) for a little bit of fun. Their relationship starts off... Read more

The Chicago Critics Film Festival

THE CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL returns to the Music Box for its Thirteenth Year! The event, a seven-time nominee for Best Film Festival in the Chic... Read more

Broken English

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

From the BAFTA nominated directors of the Sundance award-winning 20,000 Days on Earth comes a bold documentary portrait of the inimitable singer, song... Read more

The Sun Never Sets

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

Wendy (Dakota Fanning) has her life thrown into chaos when her boyfriend, Jack (Jake Johnson), who is older and divorced with children, insists they t... Read more

The Elephant Man

With this poignant second feature, David Lynch brought his atmospheric visual and sonic palette to a notorious true story set in Victorian England. Wh... Read more

Steal This Story, Please!

Undeterred by armed soldiers, evasive politicians, and riot police, journalist Amy Goodman has reported some of the most consequential stories of our... Read more

Sapphopalooza

“Lesbian? Her birthday is in March, I thought she was a Pisces?” (Bend it Like Beckham)“My angel. Flung out of space.” (Carol)Back by popular demand,... Read more

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

Part of: Sapphopalooza

In the early 1970s, Rainer Werner Fassbinder discovered the American melodramas of Douglas Sirk and was inspired by them to begin working in a new, mo... Read more

Steal This Story, Please!

Undeterred by armed soldiers, evasive politicians, and riot police, journalist Amy Goodman has reported some of the most consequential stories of our... Read more

The Elephant Man

With this poignant second feature, David Lynch brought his atmospheric visual and sonic palette to a notorious true story set in Victorian England. Wh... Read more

The Late Show

Stay up late with those goof-off, irreverent movies your parents wouldn't let you watch as a kid. If you grew up in the '90s & '00s and had to sneak o... Read more

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

Part of: The Late Show

Odysseus…Magellan…Neil Armstrong… These are the adventurers whose pioneering explorations live forever in the annals of history and myth. But two more... Read more

Sapphopalooza

“Lesbian? Her birthday is in March, I thought she was a Pisces?” (Bend it Like Beckham)“My angel. Flung out of space.” (Carol)Back by popular demand,... Read more

Carol

Part of: Sapphopalooza

Todd Haynes continued his career-long interest in the tragedy of repression and withholding with his 2015 masterpiece, CAROL. Based on Patricia Highsm... Read more

Steal This Story, Please!

Undeterred by armed soldiers, evasive politicians, and riot police, journalist Amy Goodman has reported some of the most consequential stories of our... Read more

The Elephant Man

With this poignant second feature, David Lynch brought his atmospheric visual and sonic palette to a notorious true story set in Victorian England. Wh... Read more

Hekla

Hekla is a comedy/drama about the emotional cost of pursuing a creative life. Set over one hectic day in Chicago, it explores how ambition, identity,... Read more

The Elephant Man

With this poignant second feature, David Lynch brought his atmospheric visual and sonic palette to a notorious true story set in Victorian England. Wh... Read more

Steal This Story, Please!

Undeterred by armed soldiers, evasive politicians, and riot police, journalist Amy Goodman has reported some of the most consequential stories of our... Read more

Steal This Story, Please!

Undeterred by armed soldiers, evasive politicians, and riot police, journalist Amy Goodman has reported some of the most consequential stories of our... Read more

Sapphopalooza

“Lesbian? Her birthday is in March, I thought she was a Pisces?” (Bend it Like Beckham)“My angel. Flung out of space.” (Carol)Back by popular demand,... Read more

Set It Off

Part of: Sapphopalooza

One of several crossover filmmakers who made both hip-hop music videos and Hollywood feature films, F. Gary Gray began his directing career with video... Read more

The Elephant Man

With this poignant second feature, David Lynch brought his atmospheric visual and sonic palette to a notorious true story set in Victorian England. Wh... Read more

The Elephant Man

With this poignant second feature, David Lynch brought his atmospheric visual and sonic palette to a notorious true story set in Victorian England. Wh... Read more

Steal This Story, Please!

Undeterred by armed soldiers, evasive politicians, and riot police, journalist Amy Goodman has reported some of the most consequential stories of our... Read more

Steal This Story, Please!

Undeterred by armed soldiers, evasive politicians, and riot police, journalist Amy Goodman has reported some of the most consequential stories of our... Read more

Everyone Is Lying to You for Money

In Everyone Is Lying to You for Money, actor and author Ben McKenzie turns investigator, pulling back the curtain on the cryptocurrency industry and t... Read more

The Elephant Man

With this poignant second feature, David Lynch brought his atmospheric visual and sonic palette to a notorious true story set in Victorian England. Wh... Read more

Obsession

After breaking the mysterious “One Wish Willow” to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon... Read more

Sapphopalooza

“Lesbian? Her birthday is in March, I thought she was a Pisces?” (Bend it Like Beckham)“My angel. Flung out of space.” (Carol)Back by popular demand,... Read more

Janelle Monáe: Dirty Computer

Part of: Sapphopalooza

A visually stunning story of a young woman named Jane 57821, who is living in a totalitarian near-future society where citizens are referred to as "co... Read more

Sapphopalooza

“Lesbian? Her birthday is in March, I thought she was a Pisces?” (Bend it Like Beckham)“My angel. Flung out of space.” (Carol)Back by popular demand,... Read more

Salomé

Part of: Sapphopalooza

In 1922, renowned Russian stage and screen actress Alla Nazimova committed the extraordinary sum of $350,000 to produce Salomé, a film adaptation of O... Read more

Obsession

After breaking the mysterious “One Wish Willow” to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon... Read more

Rocky Horror Picture Show

This notorious horror parody — a fast-paced potpourri of camp, sci-fi and rock ‘n’ roll, among other things — tracks the exploits of naïve couple Brad... Read more

Sapphopalooza

“Lesbian? Her birthday is in March, I thought she was a Pisces?” (Bend it Like Beckham)“My angel. Flung out of space.” (Carol)Back by popular demand,... Read more

Liz and the Blue Bird

Part of: Sapphopalooza

Students and best friends Mizore Yoroizuka and Nozomi Kasaki prepare to play a complex musical duet, “Liz and the Blue Bird”, for oboe and flute. Thou... Read more

Obsession

After breaking the mysterious “One Wish Willow” to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon... Read more

Obsession

After breaking the mysterious “One Wish Willow” to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon... Read more

Obsession

After breaking the mysterious “One Wish Willow” to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon... Read more

Obsession

After breaking the mysterious “One Wish Willow” to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon... Read more

Obsession

After breaking the mysterious “One Wish Willow” to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon... Read more

Sapphopalooza

“Lesbian? Her birthday is in March, I thought she was a Pisces?” (Bend it Like Beckham)“My angel. Flung out of space.” (Carol)Back by popular demand,... Read more

Bend It Like Beckham

Part of: Sapphopalooza

British Indian director Gurinder Chadha’s third feature tells the story of teenager Jess Bhamra (Parminder Nagra in a winning breakout performance), a... Read more

Obsession

After breaking the mysterious “One Wish Willow” to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon... Read more

The Room

This “electrifying American black comedy about love, passion, betrayal and lies” stars (and was directed, written and produced by) the mysterious Tomm... Read more

Sapphopalooza

“Lesbian? Her birthday is in March, I thought she was a Pisces?” (Bend it Like Beckham)“My angel. Flung out of space.” (Carol)Back by popular demand,... Read more

Je tu il elle

Part of: Sapphopalooza

In her provocative first feature, Chantal Akerman stars as an aimless young woman who leaves self-imposed isolation to embark on a road trip that lead... Read more

Obsession

After breaking the mysterious “One Wish Willow” to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon... Read more

Little Man

Hired to steal the fabulous Queen Diamond, pint-sized jewel thief Calvin Sims (Marlon Wayans) and his dimwitted partner Percy (Tracy Morgan) stash the... Read more

Sapphopalooza

“Lesbian? Her birthday is in March, I thought she was a Pisces?” (Bend it Like Beckham)“My angel. Flung out of space.” (Carol)Back by popular demand,... Read more

Nitrate Kisses

Part of: Sapphopalooza

NITRATE KISSES explores eroded emulsions and images for lost vestiges of lesbian and gay culture in this first feature by a pioneer of lesbian cinema,... Read more

Obsession

After breaking the mysterious “One Wish Willow” to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon... Read more

Obsession

After breaking the mysterious “One Wish Willow” to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon... 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

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

Part of: The Chicago Film Society Presents

Spawned from the wilds of underground animation, teenaged delinquents Beavis and Butt-Head first appeared in 1992 in a pair of 16mm shorts made by Mik... Read more

Obsession

After breaking the mysterious “One Wish Willow” to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon... Read more

Obsession

After breaking the mysterious “One Wish Willow” to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon... Read more

Obsession

After breaking the mysterious “One Wish Willow” to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon... Read more

Obsession

After breaking the mysterious “One Wish Willow” to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon... Read more

Magic Hour

Charlie and Erin escape to the desert to navigate an unexpected and challenging new phase of their relationship. A Duplass Brothers Production starrin... Read more

Multiple Maniacs

John Waters’ gloriously grotesque, unavailable-for-decades second feature comes to theaters at long last, replete with all manner of depravity, from r... Read more

Sapphopalooza

“Lesbian? Her birthday is in March, I thought she was a Pisces?” (Bend it Like Beckham)“My angel. Flung out of space.” (Carol)Back by popular demand,... Read more

Go Fish

Part of: Sapphopalooza

The fête of lesbian friendship and community are at the center of director Rose Troche’s landmark debut feature, a clever and sexy matchmaking romance... Read more

Obsession

After breaking the mysterious “One Wish Willow” to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon... Read more

That Very Witch Double Feature

Part of: Sapphopalooza

BABA YAGA (Corrado Farina (1973) 90 min - DCP“The sexy Seventies film that attacks a dozen major fetishes in 83 minutes.” - Screen AnarchyThis gothic... Read more

Obsession

After breaking the mysterious “One Wish Willow” to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon... Read more

Sapphopalooza

“Lesbian? Her birthday is in March, I thought she was a Pisces?” (Bend it Like Beckham)“My angel. Flung out of space.” (Carol)Back by popular demand,... Read more

Clouds of Sils Maria

Part of: Sapphopalooza

Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, and Chloë Grace Moretz light up this exhilarating, behind-the-scenes look at art, acting and aging from acclaimed d... Read more

The Terminator

In 2029, the war between man and machine has desolated the Earth, leaving humanity all but wiped out. Pockets of survivors remain – either living as s... Read more