Jonathan Demme Movie Reviews
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Festivals & Awards
An Invitation to a Film Party: The 13th Annual Chicago Critics Film Festival
April 29, 2026
Festivals & Awards
Chicago Critics Film Festival Lineup Announced, including Guests Olivia Wilde, Joe Swanberg, Dawn Porter, More
April 10, 2026
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: May 2024
May 29, 2024
MZS
Roger Corman’s Greatest Legacy Was Giving So Many People Their Big Break
May 14, 2024
Tributes
I’ve Never Seen Anything Like It Before: Roger Corman (1926-2024)
May 13, 2024
Features
Luca Guadagnino Is Love
April 23, 2024
MZS
Part of the Solution: Matthew Modine on Acting, Empathy, and Hard Miles
April 17, 2024
Features
10 Music Documentaries You Should See After The Greatest Night in Pop
February 14, 2024
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Nancy Savoca on Household Saints
January 1, 2024
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2023: A Canadian Looks Back at a Tumultuous Fest
September 22, 2023
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2023: Stop Making Sense, In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
September 12, 2023
Chaz's Journal
When A Film Critic Gets Married At The Movies
September 5, 2023
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Fran Rubel Kuzui on Tokyo Pop
August 1, 2023
Features
Airwaves: The Top 40 Beauty of the Air Soundtrack
April 20, 2023
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room March 2023: Something Wild: The Other Half of You by Christian Craig
March 20, 2023
Features
Book Excerpt: Talk ’90s with Me by Matt Pais
September 27, 2022
Tributes
As Far Back as I Can Remember: Ray Liotta (1954-2022)
May 27, 2022
Tributes
He Made Everything Better: Fred Ward (1942-2022)
May 15, 2022
Tributes
The Mystery Was the Point: On the Life of Dean Stockwell (1936-2021)
November 9, 2021
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: Horror Edition
October 22, 2021
Interviews
Unboxing the Artist: Suzanne Desrocher-Romero on Restoring George A. Romero’s The Amusement Park
June 8, 2021
TV/Streaming
CBS’s Clarice Dilutes the Sprawling Strangeness of Its Source
February 9, 2021
Tributes
Cloris Leachman: 1926-2021
January 28, 2021
Features
The Ten Best Films of 2020
December 13, 2020
MZS
Touring Masterworks: Adam Nayman Discusses His New Book on Paul Thomas Anderson
October 7, 2020
TV/Streaming
Luca Guadagnino’s HBO Series We Are Who We Are Off to a Glorious Start
September 11, 2020
MZS
30 Minutes on The Manchurian Candidate
June 10, 2020
Far Flungers
An Invitation to An Unforgettable Wedding in Rachel Getting Married
April 19, 2020
Features
Anna Karina: 1940-2019
December 15, 2019
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2019: A Year of Milestones
October 14, 2019
MZS
Son of the father: Peter Fonda, 1940-2019
August 17, 2019
Features
Toni Morrison: 1931-2019
August 7, 2019
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest 2019: Table of Contents
April 22, 2019
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest 2019: A Photo Journal
April 18, 2019
Festivals & Awards
Finding New Neighbors at the Movies: The Ebert Fellows on Ebertfest 2019
April 15, 2019
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest 2019, Day 2: Coeur Fidele, Rachel Getting Married, Bound
April 12, 2019
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest 2019, The Panels: Challenging Stigma Through the Arts; Women in Cinema
April 11, 2019
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest 2019 Reveals Full Line-Up Honoring Scott Wilson, Richard Roeper and Jonathan Demme
March 6, 2019
Features
Bruno Ganz: 1941-2019
February 16, 2019
Features
Dick Miller: 1928-2019
January 31, 2019
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: December 13, 2018
December 13, 2018
Features
The Individual Top Tens of 2018
December 13, 2018
Interviews
Telling Their Stories: Stephan James and KiKi Layne on If Beale Street Could Talk
December 10, 2018
Interviews
No False Moves: Carl Franklin on His Noir Films
August 14, 2018
Festivals & Awards
Steve James Named 2018 Guggenheim Honoree by American Film Institute
June 12, 2018
Features
American Horror: On Criterion’s Night of the Living Dead and The Silence of the Lambs
February 19, 2018
Features
Tom Petty: 1950-2017
October 3, 2017
Features
Much More than “Star Wars”: The Cinema of ’77 Strikes Back at Film Society of Lincoln Center
August 3, 2017
MZS
The Unloved, Part 42: Beloved
June 1, 2017
Features
Thumbnails 5/15/17
May 14, 2017
Interviews
Hot Docs 2017 Interview: Nanfu Wang on “I Am Another You”
May 2, 2017
Features
On Her Own Terms: The Work of Debra Winger
May 2, 2017
Features
Emphatic and Abundant Love: The Work of Jonathan Demme
April 27, 2017
Features
A musical soul: Jonathan Demme, 1944-2017
April 27, 2017
Chaz's Journal
Learning to Let Go: The Beauty of the Big Ears Festival
March 29, 2017
TV/Streaming
FOX’s Ambitious “Shots Fired” Rises Above Melodrama
March 21, 2017
TV/Streaming
The Audacious “Something Wild” Comes to Criterion Blu-ray
January 17, 2017
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2016: “Boundaries,” “Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids,” “Barakah Meets Barakah”
September 18, 2016
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2016 Preview: 20 World Premieres We Can’t Wait to See
September 6, 2016
Festivals & Awards
TIFF Announces First Wave of Galas and Special Presentations
July 26, 2016
Interviews
A Woman is a Woman: A Chat with Anna Karina
May 4, 2016
Interviews
Share Your Love: Author Danny Peary on “Cult Movies”
April 20, 2016
Features
Timeless Horror: The 25th Anniversary of “The Silence of the Lambs”
February 14, 2016
TV/Streaming
James Franco Carries “11.22.63” Over Sluggish Midsection
February 9, 2016
Interviews
A Living Cinematic Organism: Stephen Cone on “Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party”
January 5, 2016
Interviews
Interview: André Gregory and Wallace Shawn
June 12, 2015
Features
2015 Summer Movie Preview: A Four-Month, Blockbuster Festival
April 28, 2015
Features
Sundance before it was Sundance
April 9, 2013
Roger Ebert
The best films of 2008… and there were a lot of them
December 19, 2012
Roger Ebert
The Best Films of 2004
December 19, 2012
Roger Ebert
22 secrets gleaned from `Silence’
December 19, 2012
Roger Ebert
The Best 10 Movies of 1991
December 19, 2012
Scanners
50 greatest music films ever
December 14, 2012
Scanners
WALL-E scrunches Love Guru inVillage Voice/LA Weekly crix poll
December 14, 2012
Scanners
The Double-Best of the Year
December 14, 2012
Scanners
Opening Shots: ‘Repo Man’
December 14, 2012
Scanners
My scene with Kristofferson
December 14, 2012
Scanners
“Oh yeah? Well, I criticize you back!”
December 14, 2012
Scanners
The best greatest movies ever list
December 14, 2012
Scanners
Prof. Cozzalio’s take-home pop quiz is due!
December 14, 2012
Scanners
Name That Director!
December 14, 2012
Scanners
Desert island DVDs (Matt’s & mine & yours)
December 14, 2012
Scanners
What does a movie mean?
December 14, 2012
Scanners
Scorsese and music as storytelling: Shine a Light
December 14, 2012
Scanners
Wally Pfister, The Avengers & the ethics of composition
December 14, 2012
Far Flungers
Los Angeles Film Festival 2012
December 14, 2012
TV/Streaming
Corman’s World: Monsters, mayhem & breast nudity!
December 14, 2012
Festivals & Awards
Deep Vote predicts the Oscars: Last year, he batted 1000
December 14, 2012
Festivals & Awards
You never saw this in all of those John Wayne war movies
December 14, 2012
Festivals & Awards
Starting off the season
December 14, 2012
Festivals & Awards
Toronto #8: ‘Sleuth’ finds itself a Pinter film
December 14, 2012
Festivals & Awards
So many films, so little time
December 14, 2012
Festivals & Awards
Sundance #1: Indie bread & butter
December 14, 2012
Festivals & Awards
Of cannibals and Camelot, beauties and Beatty
December 14, 2012
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