If Beale Street Could Talk
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James Baldwin
James Baldwin
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Black Writers Week
What is the State of the Black Movie Star?
Black Writers Week
From My Block to Wakanda: Movies and Black Travel
Festivals & Awards
At This Year’s Oscars, The Show Must Go On
Festivals & Awards
Locarno Film Festival 2025: Prejudice Across the Pond in “Pool of London” and “The Story of a Three-Day Pass”
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2025: Renoir, Sons of the Neon Night, Orwell: 2+2=5
MZS
Life, the Movie: Why Documentary Filmmaking Should Return to, You Know, Documenting Stuff
Festivals & Awards
Black Harvest Film Festival 2024: Black Table, Rising Up at Night, The Weekend, Jimmy
Festivals & Awards
Black Harvest Film Festival 2024 Preview
Features
Hollywood & The March on Washington: When Fame Overcame Fear
Tributes
Goodbye to a Chicago Legend: Sergio Mims (1955-2022)
Features
The Film That Changed Harrison Ford’s Career: On the 20th Anniversary of K-19: The Widowmaker
Festivals & Awards
Mr. Soul! Wins 2022 Peabody Award
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room January 2022: Place Cliché by Nathaniel Missildine
Festivals & Awards
An Inside Look: Mr. Soul! to Stream Live Sunday, October 17th
Chaz's Journal
Melissa Haizlip’s Mr. Soul! to Premiere on HBO Max on August 22nd
Features
Send It Back: How Roadrunner Fails Anthony Bourdain
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2021: The French Dispatch, JFK Revisited, Three Floors
Black Writers Week
Mr. Soul!: A Case Study in Indie Film Distribution
TV/Streaming
Genius: Aretha Goes Surface Deep on the Queen of Soul
Festivals & Awards
Mr. Soul! Nominated for Three NAACP Image Awards, Debuts Exclusive Music Video for Show Me Your Soul by Robert Glasper and Lalah Hathaway
TV/Streaming
Amend: The Fight for America Educates Netflix Audiences on 14th Amendment
Festivals & Awards
Mr. Soul! Nominated for Outstanding Debut Feature at Cinema Eye Honors
Chaz's Journal
Mr. Soul! Extended in Virtual Theaters Through September 24th
Festivals & Awards
RogerEbert.com Premieres the Theatrical Trailer and Poster for Melissa Haizlip’s Documentary Mr. Soul!
Chaz's Journal
Upholding Black Voices: An Annotated Table of Contents
Features
Thumbnails 6/8/20
Features
The Best Scores of the Decade
Features
The Best Films of the 2010s
Features
Doris Day: 1922-2019
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: March 28, 2019
Chaz's Journal
Mr. Soul! Screens for Free Thursday, February 21st at the Apollo Theater
MZS
30 Minutes On: “If Beale Street Could Talk”
Festivals & Awards
Roma, Vice, Black Panther Win Big at 24th Critics’ Choice Awards
Interviews
Barry Jenkins on Adapting James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk, The Film’s Timeliness and more
Features
Nell Minow’s Top Ten Films of 2018
Features
Tomris Laffly’s Top Ten Films of 2018
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Odie Henderson’s Top Ten Films of 2018
Features
Brian Tallerico’s Top Ten Films of 2018
Features
The Ten Best Films of 2018
Interviews
Telling Their Stories: Stephan James and KiKi Layne on If Beale Street Could Talk
Interviews
Sharing the Weight: Barry Jenkins on If Beale Street Could Talk
Festivals & Awards
A Look Back at the 2018 Indie Memphis Film Festival
Chaz's Journal
My List of Movies to See Before the End of 2018
MZS
60 Minutes on: “The Hate U Give”
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: October 4, 2018
Features
2018 Fall Movie Preview: 10 Films We’re Excited About
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2018: If Beale Street Could Talk, Widows
Festivals & Awards
The 20 Most Exciting World Premieres of TIFF 2018
Festivals & Awards
PROJECT INVOLVE/Ebert Fellow Melissa Haizlip Wins Audience Award with her film Mr. SOUL! at AFI DOCS
Festivals & Awards
Mr. SOUL! to Screen at AFI DOCS on June 16th
Features
Thumbnails Special Edition: Critics in the Spotlight
TV/Streaming
PBS Press Tour Spotlights Little Women
Interviews
Genuine Satisfaction: Stephen Cone on “Princess Cyd”
Chaz's Journal
Photo Gallery: Roger Ebert Induction Ceremony
TV/Streaming
Netflix’s Admirable “Dear White People” is Rough Around the Edges
Features
Thumbnails 4/12/17
Festivals & Awards
If We Picked the Winners 2017: Best Documentary
Interviews
Eroding the Excuses: David Oyelowo on “A United Kingdom”
Far Flungers
Michael Phillips, Anthony Hemingway, Vanessa Morrison and Floyd Norman Honored with AAFCA Awards
Interviews
All Your Buried Corpses are Now Beginning to Speak: Raoul Peck on “I Am Not Your Negro”
Interviews
The RogerEbert.com Interviews of 2016
Features
The Individual Top Tens of 2016
Chaz's Journal
AAFCA Hails 2016 As The Best Year For Blacks In Cinema
Interviews
Art Cuts Through Tyranny: Zoe Kazan on “The Monster”
Chaz's Journal
Lucky 13 Must-See Films of 2016
Features
World-Class Acting: On Joan Crawford and “Sudden Fear”
Features
Always The Greatest: Remembering Muhammad Ali
Features
Sometimes It Snows in April: Images of Prince
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2016: Being American
Chaz's Journal
My Sister Adele (1949-2016)
Chaz's Journal
Paste Magazine Interview with Chaz Ebert
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