William Friedkin
William Friedkin Movie Reviews
Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
Himself
Friedkin Uncut
Himself
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
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The Devil and Father Amorth
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Killer Joe
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Bug
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The Hunted
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The Exorcist (2000 Version)
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Rules Of Engagement
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Jade
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Blue Chips
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Rampage
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The Guardian
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To Live and Die in L.A.
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Deal of the Century
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Cruising
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The Brink’s Job
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The Exorcist
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The Birthday Party
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Blog Posts That Mention William Friedkin
Print the Legend: On the Legacy of William Friedkin
He Did It All: William Friedkin (1935-2023)
R.I.P. Film and Opera Renaissance Director William Friedkin (1935-2023)
Interview: William Friedkin on “The People vs. Paul Crump”
Interview with William Friedkin
CIFF 2018: Friedkin Uncut, The Great Buster
William Peter Blatty: 1928-2017
Cannes #4: ‘Bug’ by Friedkin
June 2025 Blu-Ray/Streaming Guide: “Drop,” “The Nice Guys,” “Dark City,” More
Venice Film Festival 2023: Poor Things, Maestro, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, The Killer
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The Unloved, Part 6: Sorcerer
Thumbnails 4/9/14
In the Cut, Part III: Bullitt, The Lineup, French Connectionaka I Left My Heart in My Throat in San Francisco
Drive: Yellow light, red light, blue light, pink light
Can a movie ruin a good review?
Light the Fuse: Lalo Schifrin (1932-2025)
March 2025 Blu-Ray Guide: “Babygirl,” “Sing Sing,” “Den of Thieves 2,” “Moana 2”
He Never Made the Same Choice Twice: 10 of Our Favorite Gene Hackman Performances
Criterion Adds Val Lewton Double Feature to the Collection
“Risky Business” Remains One of the Most Daring Films of the ’80s
Home Entertainment Guide: May 2024
A Man Goes to the Movies: An Appreciation of Roger Ebert’s Top 10 Lists
A Farewell from Our Literary Editor, Matt Fagerholm
A Final Goodbye: Tributes to Some of the People We Lost in 2023
Seasons Greetings from Chaz Ebert and All of Us at RogerEbert.com
When A Film Critic Gets Married At The Movies
Tapping Into the Infinite: Alexandre O. Philippe on Lynch/Oz
Highlights of the 2023 TCM Film Festival
The Consummate Collaborator: Bill Butler (1921-2023)
Impulsive, Youthful, Necessary: Daniel Goldhaber on How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Where the Action Is: Oliver Wood, 1942-2023
Michael Kutza Details Legacy of Chicago International Film Festival in Starstruck
The Connection to Old Hollywood: Peter Bogdanovich (1939-2022)
TIFF 2021: Encounter, Earwig, Inexorable
Richard Donner: 1930-2021
Breaking In: On the 40th Anniversary of Tangerine Dream’s Thief Score
Bertrand Tavernier: 1941-2021
8 Films to See at the Nightstream Virtual Film Festival
Happy Birthday Roger, June 18th, 2020 (Table of Contents)
Shudder Launches Clever Series About the Legacy of Cursed Films
Krzysztof Penderecki: 1933-2020
Max von Sydow: 1929-2020
Seventh Row Publishes Beyond Empowertainment, a Critical Study of Feminism in Horror
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: December 13, 2018
45 Movies to see at the 54th Chicago International Film Festival
Cannes 2018: Scorsese Honored at 50th Directors’ Fortnight; Rafiki, a Banned Kenyan Film, Screens
Partners in mind: Keith Carradine and Alan Rudolph
The Power of Community: A Recap of the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival
Man on the Outside: The Films of Willem Dafoe
The Big Knockover: “Noir City: Chicago” Brings Heist Films to the Music Box Theater
Much More than “Star Wars”: The Cinema of ’77 Strikes Back at Film Society of Lincoln Center
Jeanne Moreau: 1928-2017
Revisiting “The Hidden,” the ‘80s “Twin Peaks” Doppelgänger
Viva Bava, Celebrating a Master Craftsman
Meet the Writers: Scout Tafoya
Like Going to Church: Joe Dante on “The Movie Orgy”
Badass Intensity and Holy Cool: A Warren Oates Retrospective
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: October 8, 2015
A Promise Unfulfilled: “My Beautiful Laundrette”
Who’s Who In Reviews: Peter Sobczynski
Interview: Thomas Haden Church on “Max,” “Killer Joe”
Print the Legend: The 2015 TCM Film Festival
“Evil Against Evil”: The Fascinating Incoherence of American Sniper
Beyond Narrative: The Future of the Feature Film
Interview: Kevin Macdonald Sails the “Black Sea”
The Safe Dark: “Halloween: The Complete Collection” and “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: 40th Anniversary Edition”
NYFF 2014: Help Us Out New York!
Thumbnails 8/29/14
Thumbnails 7/31/14
Book Excerpt: “Film Firsts: The 25 Movies that Created Contemporary American Cinema” by Ethan Alter
You’ve Got Mail (From Roger Ebert)
Blu-ray Consumer Guide: May 2014
Highlights of the Second Annual Chicago Critics Film Festival
The Naked, Raw Anger of “Born on Fourth of July” at Ebertfest
Thumbnails 3/13/14
Thumbnails 12/11/2013
Meet the Writers: Peter Sobczynski
Matthew McConaughey discusses his role in “Dallas Buyers Club”
Traditions of Quality: Mark Cousins’ “The Story of Film: An Odyssey”
Susan Seidelman, Survivor
Peter Bogdanovich on “At Long Last Love”
It Really Is De-Lovely: At Long Last, “At Long Last Love” Returns
The same old insensitivity makes Hollywood a target
The Best 10 Movies of 1971
101 102 Movies You Must See Before…
Blu-ray: Higher fidelity to what?
Los Angeles Film Festival 2012
No Exorcist Can Handle Possession
A man with storms in his head
A sermon no one can sleep through
Director defends new `Exorcist’ cut
In film ‘Mac,’ John Turturro captures the certain nobility of everday life
Rambo lets his guns do the talking in sequel
‘The only great party is a boy and a girl and a whole cheesecake’: An interview with Groucho Marx
Would it kill a studio to reveal the names of actors?
The ‘Da Vinci’ woes
Movie Answer Man (10/08/2000)