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Home Entertainment Guide February 2026: “Predator: Badlands,” “Song Song Blue,” “A Little Prayer,” More
Interviews
Turns and Tonal Shifts: Jason Biggs and Meaghan Rath on “Untitled Home Invasion Romance”
Festivals & Awards
Our 10 Most Anticipated Films of the 2025 Fantasia Film Festival
TV/Streaming
What to Watch on Netflix: May 2025
DVD/Blu-Ray
December 2024 Blu-Ray Guide: “The Wild Robot,” “Conclave,” “Alien: Romulus,” More
Features
How The Ladykillers Kicked Off Tom Hanks’ Weirdest Year Two Decades Ago
Chaz's Journal
Celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of Our Managing Editor Brian Tallerico at RogerEbert.com
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: January 2024
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Adamma Ebo and Adanne Ebo on Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: February 2022
Features
Bardcore Noir: Joel Coen, Shakespeare and The Tragedy of Macbeth
Features
Book Excerpt: A Lot Can Happen in the Middle of Nowhere: The Untold Story of the Making of Fargo by Todd Melby
MZS
Touring Masterworks: Adam Nayman Discusses His New Book on Paul Thomas Anderson
Features
SDCC 2020: Guillermo del Toro and Scott Cooper on Antlers and Filmmaking
Features
The Best Films of the 2010s: Inside Llewyn Davis
Features
Brian Tallerico’s Top Ten Films of 2018
Features
The Ten Best Films of 2018
Festivals & Awards
Highlights from the 2018 Los Cabos Film Festival
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2018: Roma, Her Smell, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, At Eternity’s Gate
Festivals & Awards
Venice Film Festival 2018: The Sisters Brothers, La Quietud
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest 2018 Guests: Part II
MZS
30 Minutes on: “The Hudsucker Proxy”
Festivals & Awards
Venice Film Festival 2017: “Suburbicon,” “The Private Life of a Modern Woman”
TV/Streaming
“Patriot” Struggles to Balance Its Unique Blend of Tones
Interviews
Making a Picture: Alden Ehrenreich & Lily Collins on “Rules Don’t Apply”
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: September 22, 2016
Interviews
Accidental Genius: Simon Helberg on “Florence Foster Jenkins”
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: June 10, 2016
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room March 2016: “The Quare Fellow” by Karina Wolf
TV/Streaming
Au Revoir: On Criterion’s Release of “Inside Llewyn Davis”
Features
The Best Performances of 2015
Chaz's Journal
Cannes 2015: How Being Festival Jurors Changes Filmmakers
Festivals & Awards
The Cannes Blues
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2015: Let There Be Lumière
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2015: “Mia Madre”
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2015: “Standing Tall,” “Our Little Sister,” “Tale of Tales”
Features
Thumbnails 5/11/15
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: April 9, 2015
Festivals & Awards
Confessions/Observations of an Awards Season Skeptic, Part One: How I Was Compelled To Stop Worrying and Be Okay with the Golden Globes
Festivals & Awards
Stars Align at 2014 Gotham Independent Film Awards
Features
The Coen Brothers: American Independents, Part 2
Features
The Coen Brothers: American Independents, Part 1
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: July 31, 2014
Features
Thumbnails 7/29/2014
Features
Interview: The Visual Confidence of “Blue Ruin” Director Jeremy Saulnier
TV/Streaming
FX’s “Fargo” Has Creative Spark of Coen Classic
Features
Thumbnails 3/24/14
Festivals & Awards
Notes on Subjective Cinema at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival
MZS
The Unloved, Part 3: The Hudsucker Proxy
Festivals & Awards
Guilds Trifecta Could Put the Final Stamp on the Oscars Race
MZS
Matt Zoller Seitz’s Top 10 Films of 2013
Features
Top Ten Lists of 2013 From Our Contributors
Interviews
Video Interview: Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan Discuss “Inside Llewyn Davis”
Interviews
Oscar Isaac Takes the Lead with the Coen Brothers’ “Inside Llewyn Davis”
Features
Thumbnails 11/25/2013
Features
Enough said? Notes on James Gandolfini
Features
At the Movies With My Mother
Chaz's Journal
Eight Films for which Roger’s Reviews Made the Difference
Festivals & Awards
Post-Cannes: Two Critics Look Back Over This Year’s Festival
Festivals & Awards
Awards Show Wrap-up: Cannes Report, May 26
Festivals & Awards
Cannes: Palme predictions
Festivals & Awards
Cannes: The Coen brothers
Festivals & Awards
Rainy Day Blues: Cannes Report: May 18, 2013
Festivals & Awards
To “Heli” with “Gatsby”: Cannes Day One
Roger Ebert
Bless me, father, for I don’t get Scorsese
Far Flungers
Django America
Roger Ebert
Now, that’s funny
Scanners
The DVD Spoiler List
Scanners
The Uncertainty Principle (or, The Easy Read)
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One shot: They wrote that
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Film Criticism Blog-a-Thon!
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The Seitz-geist
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“No Country for Old Men” towers over 2007
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No God for Anton Chigurh?
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Favorite movies of 2009 movie: The commentary track
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Three kinds of violence: Zodiac, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood
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And the best Oscar nomination goes to…
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No Country for Old Literalists
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Alien vs. Predator, Chigurh vs. Plainview
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The Coen ideology
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Three minor notions: 1. The “True Grit” cantata
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Tell me a story… or don’t
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What it takes to win the Best Picture Oscar
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TIFF 2007: Madmen and lawyers
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TIFF 2007: The Coens = the essence of movies
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No Country For Old Men: Out in all that dark
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How we really watch a movie
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Certified Copy: How can you be in two spaces at once…?
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Up With Contempt!
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TIFF 2007: Casa of Horrors
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Is suggesting “retroactive abortion” fora director’s mom a kind of film criticism?
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The Master: Who are you?
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TIFF 08: The omnivore’s dilemma
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A Serious Man: Kafka in Minneapolis
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