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Sidney Poitier Movie Reviews
Blog Posts That Mention Sidney Poitier
Interviews
He’s Just That Guy: Jeffrey Wright on “Basquiat”
Black Writers Week
What is the State of the Black Movie Star?
Festivals & Awards
Why Ryan Coogler Should Win Best Director for “Sinners”
Features
Highlights of Roger Ebert on Black Filmmakers for Black History Month
Features
The Golden Boy: 11 of Our Favorite Robert Redford Performances
Features
Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee
Black Writers Week
50 Years Later, Cooley High Is Still Alive
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide May 2025: Better Man, Black Bag, Mickey 17, More
Tributes
Nothing Left to Prove: Quincy Jones (1933-2024)
Tributes
Donald Sutherland: The Consummate Character Actor
Black Writers Week
Marvel’s Black Villain Era
Black Writers Week
Catching a Blackfamous White Whale on Broadway: Purlie Victorious Comes Home
Tributes
O.J. Simpson Dies: The Rise & Fall of A Superstar
Tributes
A Poet of an Actor: Louis Gossett, Jr. (1936-2024)
Chaz's Journal
Welcome to Chicago, Michał Oleszczyk!
MZS
The Throwaway Scene That Gives Blazing Saddles Its Warm Heart
Tributes
“He Stood on a Firm Piece of Earth”: John Patrick Shanley on Moonstruck director Norman Jewison
Tributes
A Final Goodbye: Tributes to Some of the People We Lost in 2023
Tributes
A Goodbye to Shaft, Hollywood’s First ‘Bad’ Black Man: Richard Roundtree (1942-2023)
Features
Hollywood & The March on Washington: When Fame Overcame Fear
Black Writers Week
Bijan Bayne on His New Book, Black Trailblazers: 30 Courageous Visionaries Who Broke Boundaries, Made a Difference, and Paved the Way
Black Writers Week
Meet the Writers of Black Writers Week 2023
Black Writers Week
Black Writers Week 2023: Table of Contents
Tributes
Cinema’s Man of Steel: Jim Brown (1936-2023)
Tributes
A Piece of His Fire: Harry Belafonte (1927-2023)
Festivals & Awards
23rd Annual Black Reel Awards to Celebrate its 2023 Honorees on February 6th
Tributes
Twenty Movie Legends We Lost in 2022
Chaz's Journal
Happy 2023 from Chaz Ebert and All of Us at RogerEbert.com!
Tributes
Goodbye to a Chicago Legend: Sergio Mims (1955-2022)
Festivals & Awards
Two Days Left to Participate in Screen Gems 2022 Online Auction
Festivals & Awards
20 Films We Can’t Wait to See in Toronto
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: August 2022
Black Writers Week
Considering Easy To Get: World War II Army Training Films, Segregation, Black Uplift and VD
Festivals & Awards
Mr. Soul! Wins 2022 Peabody Award
Features
Jesus, I Love to Shoot Film: The Siskel Film Center Pays Tribute to Haskell Wexler
Festivals & Awards
TCM Film Festival 2022: Highlights of Getting Back to the Big Screen
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest 2022 Announces Complete Lineup, Will Be Dedicated to Sidney Poitier and Gilbert Gottfried
Festivals & Awards
The 22nd Black Reel Awards Honors its Winners, Led by The Harder They Fall
Features
Chaz Ebert to Receive the Ruby Dee Humanitarian Award
Chaz's Journal
Happy 100th Birthday to Haskell Wexler!
Festivals & Awards
Bring the Governors Awards Back to the Oscars
Features
Sidney Poitier and the Slap That Shook the World
Tributes
Dignified Defiance: Sidney Poitier (1927-2022)
Tributes
The Connection to Old Hollywood: Peter Bogdanovich (1939-2022)
Chaz's Journal
Cheryl Boone Isaacs and Cameron Bailey’s New Roles in the Film Industry
Festivals & Awards
An Inside Look: Mr. Soul! to Stream Live Sunday, October 17th
Festivals & Awards
57th Chicago International Film Festival Announces Full Schedule; Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch to Open
Chaz's Journal
Melissa Haizlip’s Mr. Soul! to Premiere on HBO Max on August 22nd
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
Festivals & Awards
Mr. Soul! Nominated for Outstanding Debut Feature at Cinema Eye Honors
Festivals & Awards
CIFF 2020: Black Perspectives Program Highlights Diverse Voices
Chaz's Journal
Mr. Soul! Extended in Virtual Theaters Through September 24th
Tributes
Chadwick Boseman: 1976-2020
Festivals & Awards
RogerEbert.com Premieres the Theatrical Trailer and Poster for Melissa Haizlip’s Documentary Mr. Soul!
Chaz's Journal
Celebrating Living Legend Norman Lear on His 98th Birthday
Chaz's Journal
Living Legends: A Salute to Norman Lear
Chaz's Journal
Jane Fonda and Three IndieCollect Restorations to Appear This Weekend at the 2020 HFPA Restoration Summit
TV/Streaming
They’ve Gotta Have Us Charts Black Experience in Cinema
Chaz's Journal
In Loving Memory of Diahann Carroll and Jessye Norman
Chaz's Journal
Mr. Soul! Screens for Free Thursday, February 21st at the Apollo Theater
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: February 7, 2019
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: October 4, 2018
Features
TCM and AAFCA to Present The Black Experience on Film
Festivals & Awards
Celebrating Michael Kutza: Founder of Chicago International Film Festival to be Honored at July 14th Gala
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
Festivals & Awards
Michael Kutza, Retiring Founder of Cinema/Chicago, to be Honored at July 14th Gala
Chaz's Journal
On the Representation of Disabled Women in Cinema
MZS
Dreams of Africa: The Fantasy Politics of Black Panther
TV/Streaming
PBS Press Tour Spotlights Little Women
Festivals & Awards
Time’s Up: A Report From the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards
Features
A musical soul: Jonathan Demme, 1944-2017
Festivals & Awards
Nitrate and Old Favorites: A Recap of the 2017 TCM Classic Film Festival
Interviews
Eroding the Excuses: David Oyelowo on “A United Kingdom”
Interviews
All Your Buried Corpses are Now Beginning to Speak: Raoul Peck on “I Am Not Your Negro”
Festivals & Awards
Taken for Granted: Awards Veterans Like Streep, Hanks and Washington Deserve Their Nominations
Festivals & Awards
AFI Fest 2016: Otto Preminger’s “Carmen Jones”
Interviews
Words Don’t Come First: Jeff Nichols on “Loving”
Interviews
Looking for Truth: Tyler Perry on “Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Halloween”
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: April 7, 2016
Festivals & Awards
#OscarsSoWhite and Extending Diversity
Festivals & Awards
Why the Oscars Need to Move Lifetime Achievement Back to the Telecast
Interviews
It’s Real: A Few Words with Haskell Wexler
Features
RogerEbert.com Writers & Filmmakers Remember Haskell Wexler
Features
Book Excerpt: “Richard Pryor: American Id” by Jason Bailey
Festivals & Awards
Best Actor: The Battle of the Overdue
Interviews
Hip-Hop Attitude: Stanley Nelson on “Vanguard of the Revolution”
Features
Art House Sirens American Western Blu-ray Double Feature: “Duel At Diablo” and “Monte Walsh”
Chaz's Journal
Who’s Who In Reviews: Susan Wloszczyna
Features
Joseph Sargent, 1925-2014
Features
Meet the Writers: Nell Minow
Features
Ruby Dee: 1922-2014
Features
Thumbnails 5/30/2014
Festivals & Awards
From The Duke to The Departed: RogerEbert.com Writers Share Memories of the Academy Awards
Festivals & Awards
Watching the Oscars with My Mom
Features
Black FIlm and TV Directors in 2013: A Progress Report
Features
Meet the Writers: Susan Wloszczyna
Features
