- Avengers: Age of Ultron
In this week’s issue Ben Sachs reviews Hyena, a new cop thriller from the UK, and we’ve got a preview of the Chicago Film Critics Festival at Music Box, with new work by Bobcat Goldthwait, Andrew Bujalski, Francois Ozon, BIll Plympton, Tomm Moore, Joe Swanberg, Kris Swanberg, and many more. And check out our new reviews of: The Age of Adaline, starring Blake Lively as a woman who hasn’t aged since the late 1920s; Avengers: Age of Ultron, the latest money machine from Marvel Studios; Blind, a documentary by Frederick Wiseman about the Alabama School for the Blind; In Country, a documentary about weekend warriors reenacting key battles of the Vietnam war; The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, a documentary about the Japanese animation outfit Studio Ghibli, screening at Gene Siskel Film Center as part of a Ghibli retrospective; Material World, a program of offbeat short videos by Kaycee Conaway and Molly Hewitt; Scraps in Black and White, collecting some of the earliest images of people of color from the Library of Congress paper print collection; and Tangerines, a tense chamber drama about an old man nursing two bitter enemies during the Georgian civil war of the early 90s.
