A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks
Self
Ava DuVernay
Ava DuVernay
Ava DuVernay Movie Reviews
Blog Posts That Mention Ava DuVernay
Black Writers Week
250 Years Later and Blacks Are Still Politically and Racially Enslaved
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Hind Meddeb on “Sudan, Remember Us”
Chaz's Journal
Guillermo del Toro to Receive Ebert Director Award at the 2025 TIFF Tribute Awards
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Victoria Mahoney on “The Old Guard 2”
Features
“Zola,” “Anora,” and the DEI Mirage
Roger Ebert
13 Reviews by Roger Ebert for the 2025 Day4Empathy
Chaz's Journal
My Night at the Critics Choice Celebration of Black Cinema and Television
Interviews
30 Years of “Hoop Dreams”: Steve James on Roger Ebert, Oscar Snubs, and Documentary Filmmaking
Interviews
Tina Mabry and Edward Kelsey Moore on the Joy and Uplift of The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat
Features
Book Excerpt: A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda by Carrie Rickey
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Angela Patton and Natalie Rae
Festivals & Awards
Mike Leigh to Receive Ebert Director Award at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival
Interviews
Looking Into My Soul: Colman Domingo on Sing Sing
Interviews
Give a FECK!: Chaz Ebert on Her New Book About Forgiveness, Empathy, Compassion and Kindness
Features
She Knew: The Women of Science Fiction Who Predicted the Future
Features
Has The Needle Moved on the Impact of Women in Cinema for 2023?
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest Film Festival Over the Years
Features
In Memoriam: The 10 Great Movies That Were Forgotten This Oscar Season
Features
The Future of the Movies, Part 2
Chaz's Journal
Spirit Awards 2024: A Platform for Essential Independent Films
Festivals & Awards
The 15th Annual AAFCA Awards Announces Award Recipients
Interviews
How We Got Here: Ava DuVernay on Origin
Chaz's Journal
At the Movies: Clarenfreud
Chaz's Journal
Trailers for Chaz Ebert’s Top 10(-ish) Films of 2023
Chaz's Journal
The Year of Black Men in Cinema: Chaz Ebert’s Top Ten(-ish) Films of 2023
Festivals & Awards
Chaz Ebert Celebrates 25 Years of Ebertfest While Honored at University of Illinois Alumni Awards Gala
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2023: A Canadian Looks Back at a Tumultuous Fest
Festivals & Awards
The State of the 2024 Oscar Race: The Fall Festivals Leave Burning Questions
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2023: Memory, The Promised Land, Origin
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2023: Rustin, Sing Sing
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2023: 20 World Premieres We Can’t Wait to See
Festivals & Awards
Oscar-winner Spike Lee to Receive the 2023 TIFF Ebert Director Award on Sunday, September 10th
Chaz's Journal
Ten Must-See Films at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival
Features
Comic-Con Without the Stars
Festivals & Awards
XL Film Festival Runs August 18-20
Chaz at Cannes
Cannes 2023: DePaul University/CHA Youth Resident Filmmakers Isis Gullette, Unique Moore and Christal Westmoreland Arrive in the Riviera
Chaz's Journal
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Exhibition, Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898 -1971, Kicks Off with Screening Series
Festivals & Awards
Oscar-winner Sam Mendes to Receive the 2022 TIFF Ebert Director Award on Sunday, September 11th
Festivals & Awards
Roger Ebert’s Reviews of Oscar-winner Sam Mendes, Who Will Receive the 2022 TIFF Ebert Director Award
Interviews
Feel the Love: Ayoka Chenzira on Alma’s Rainbow
Chaz's Journal
Jacqueline Stewart, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Director and President, to Present Exhibition, Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898 -1971
Interviews
Strength in Softness: Olivia DeJonge on Elvis
Black Writers Week
Black Representation in Youth Dramas – Degrassi Case Study
Black Writers Week
The Legacy of Gen-X Black Filmmakers
Roger Ebert
15 African-American Filmmakers and Roger Ebert’s Birthday Retrospective Reviews
Festivals & Awards
Meet the Guests of Ebertfest 2022
Chaz's Journal
Our Favorite Roger Reviews: Daughters of the Dust
Features
Chaz Ebert to Receive the Ruby Dee Humanitarian Award
Festivals & Awards
Critics Choice Awards Celebration of Black Cinema & Television to Honor Will Smith, Ruth Negga and More on December 6th
Festivals & Awards
57th Chicago International Film Festival Announces Full Schedule; Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch to Open
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2021: The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, Belfast, Colin in Black and White
Tributes
Michael K. Williams: 1966-2021
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2021 Preview: 20 Films We Can’t Wait to See
Festivals & Awards
AAFCA TV Honors 2021 to Stream This Saturday, August 28th
Features
Book Excerpt: Subjective realities: The art of creative nonfiction film
Features
Women at SDCC At Home 2021
Festivals & Awards
Denis Villeneuve Will Receive TIFF Ebert Director Award at TIFF 2021
Interviews
A Very Elemental Film: David Oyelowo on The Water Man
Festivals & Awards
Why Representation Won’t Bring Change to the Oscars
Features
Updating a Year with Women
Features
When Art Doesn’t Age Well
Festivals & Awards
WarnerMedia Virtual Panels at Sundance Focused on Representation, Equity and Inclusion
Festivals & Awards
CIFF 2020: Black Perspectives Program Highlights Diverse Voices
Interviews
TIFF Artistic Director Cameron Bailey Reflects On This Year’s Virtual Festival
Festivals & Awards
Chloé Zhao Will Receive TIFF Ebert Director Award During Tonight’s TIFF Tribute Awards Broadcast
Interviews
Subversive Sensuality: Isabel Sandoval on Lingua Franca
Festivals & Awards
Chloé Zhao to Receive TIFF Ebert Director Award During TIFF Tribute Awards Broadcast
Festivals & Awards
Cinema Femme’s Black Female Filmmaker Renaissance Panel to Stream Live on August 8th
Features
SDCC 2020: Women Rocking Hollywood’s Seal of Approval
Chaz's Journal
Upholding Black Voices: An Annotated Table of Contents
Tributes
Irrfan Khan: 1967-2020
TV/Streaming
Join Tayarisha Poe and Chaz Ebert for a Virtual Q&A About Selah and the Spades Tonight, April 22nd
Chaz's Journal
Selah and The Spades to Debut Tomorrow, April 17th, on Amazon Prime
Chaz's Journal
When the Worlds of Film Criticism and Acting Collide to Inform and Educate Audiences
Chaz's Journal
On Natalie Portman’s Statement Dress at the 2020 Oscars
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest Announces Kathryn Bostic and the Opening and Closing Night Films for 2020 Festival
TV/Streaming
They’ve Gotta Have Us Charts Black Experience in Cinema
Interviews
Gil Robertson Talks to Chaz Ebert About the Importance of the African American Film Critics Awards and AAFCA
Festivals & Awards
Stars Shine at the 25th Critics Choice Awards
Festivals & Awards
Alliance of Women Film Journalists’ 2019 EDA Awards Honor Little Women, Parasite and More
Features
The 4-Star Films of 2019
TV/Streaming
The Best Television of 2019
Far Flungers
A Letter to Roger About Michael Apted’s 63 Up
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2020 Announces Competition, Midnight, Premiere Titles and More
TV/Streaming
The Best Television of the Decade
Interviews
Humanizing These People: Phillip Youmans on Burning Cane
Chaz's Journal
In Loving Memory of Diahann Carroll and Jessye Norman
Festivals & Awards
Ava DuVernay, Ryan Murphy, Jharrel Jerome and CBS Win Big at Inaugural AAFCA TV Honors Ceremony
Festivals & Awards
Taika Waititi to be Honored with the Ebert Director Award at TIFF Tribute Gala
Festivals & Awards
Comic-Con 2019: Women Rocking Hollywood Panel
TV/Streaming
If I Had an Emmy Ballot 2019
Festivals & Awards
Selah and The Spades to Screen at BAMCinemaFest on June 16th
Festivals & Awards
Bravo Pavarotti and Ron Howard: An Appreciation of Pavarotti and the Lyric Opera
Features
2019 Summer Movie Preview: 10 Films We’re Excited About
TV/Streaming
CBS’ Limited Series The Red Line is Worth the Ride
Interviews
Kathryn Bostic on Being the First African-American Female Composer to Join the Academy
Chaz's Journal
How the Image of Black Women Has (and Hasn’t) Changed in the Last Two Decades
Festivals & Awards
AAFCA Awards Celebrates Tenth Anniversary, Names Black Panther Best Picture
Festivals & Awards
