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TV/Streaming
“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” Finds More Comedic Highs in Confident 18th Season
Festivals & Awards
Tribeca 2026: The Narratives
Features
The 20 Best Films of 2026 So Far
Short Films in Focus
Short Films in Focus: Patient (with Director Lori Felker)
Women Writers Week
Reflections on Nuremberg: Lessons on Evil
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Amanda Kramer on “By Design”
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2025: Eternal Return, Nuremberg, Carolina Caroline
Features
Once Failed by Hollywood Blockbusters, “Superman” Lets Edi Gathegi Shine
Festivals & Awards
Tribeca Film Festival 2025: The Narrative Features
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide May 2025: Better Man, Black Bag, Mickey 17, More
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2025: The Ugly Stepsister, By Design
Festivals & Awards
2025 Sundance Film Festival Announces Ambitious Program
Features
Criterion Releases Gorgeous Box Set for Their 40th Anniversary
MZS
Some Material May Be Inappropriate: The PG-13 Rating at 40
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: May 2024
Features
The Best Legal and Courtroom Dramas
Features
The Great Performances of 2023
Features
John Waters: Pope of Trash Opens at Academy Museum
Festivals & Awards
A Look Back at Tribeca 2023
Features
Marya Gates’ Overlooked Films of 2022
Festivals & Awards
Highlights from the 2022 Reeling: Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival
Features
On The Rise of Taylor Swift, Filmmaker
Chaz's Journal
Jacqueline Stewart, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Director and President, to Present Exhibition, Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898 -1971
Features
Short Films in Focus: Soak
Festivals & Awards
2022 Rotterdam International Film Festival Highlights
Festivals & Awards
Winners Announced for the 13th Annual AAFCA Awards
Features
Sidney Poitier and the Slap That Shook the World
Interviews
Defying Gravity: Dante Basco, Caroline Goodall, James V. Hart, Charlie Korsmo and More on the Thirtieth Anniversary of Hook
Features
A Tour Through the Brand New Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Festivals & Awards
Nashville Film Festival 2021 Preview: Invisible, Clara Sola and Four More Highlights
Festivals & Awards
A Look Back at Tribeca 2021: The Documentary Features
Tributes
Giuseppe Rotunno: 1923-2021
Features
You Don’t Think the Future Knows How to Cross A Bridge: Relighting The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tributes
Chadwick Boseman: 1976-2020
Tributes
Alan Parker: 1944-2020
Features
Kirk Douglas: 1916-2020
Festivals & Awards
Telluride 2019: Ford v. Ferrari, Uncut Gems, Marriage Story
Features
Midsommar and the Legacy of Break-Up Horror Movies
Chaz's Journal
My Favorite Roger: Nell Minow
Festivals & Awards
AAFCA Awards Celebrates Tenth Anniversary, Names Black Panther Best Picture
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2018: Scorsese Honored at 50th Directors’ Fortnight; Rafiki, a Banned Kenyan Film, Screens
Festivals & Awards
The Power of Community: A Recap of the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival
Festivals & Awards
Inclusion Rider: Backstage at the 90th Academy Awards
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: December 14, 2017
Festivals & Awards
Hitting the Mother Lode: The Oscar Race Embraces Its Maternal Side
Festivals & Awards
Venice Film Festival 2017: “Suburbicon,” “The Private Life of a Modern Woman”
Features
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Meets in Chicago to Think & Talk Screens
TV/Streaming
What “Julie’s Greenroom” Teaches Us About the Importance of the NEA
Festivals & Awards
2017 Golden Globes: Meryl Streep vs. Trumpland
Festivals & Awards
Preview of the 2016 Kartemquin Fall Festival
Interviews
True to Life: An Interview with Gena Rowlands
Chaz's Journal
Roger’s Favorites: Faye Dunaway
Festivals & Awards
Tribeca 2016: “Midsummer in Newtown,” “The Last Laugh” & “My Scientology Movie”
Features
“70mm Film Festival: The Ultimate Edition” Arrives at Chicago’s Music Box Theater
Features
Timeless Horror: The 25th Anniversary of “The Silence of the Lambs”
Interviews
A Living Cinematic Organism: Stephen Cone on “Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party”
Features
The Shape of Rage: David Cronenberg’s “The Brood”
Interviews
No Safe Place in America: Lucia McBath on “3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets” and “The Armor of Light”
Features
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Festivals & Awards
AFI Docs 2015: Table of Contents
Festivals & Awards
AFI Docs 2015: “Radical Grace,” “The Armor of Light,” “Larry Kramer in Love & Anger”
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2015: “The Treasure”
Features
Book Review: “In the Company of Legends” by Joan Kramer and David Heeley
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2015: “The D Train,” “Don Verdean,” “The Overnight,” “Partisan,” “Sleeping with Other People,” “Unexpected”
Roger Ebert
“Life Itself” Named Best Documentary by Producer’s Guild of America
Roger Ebert
Beyond Narrative: The Future of the Feature Film
TV/Streaming
Blu-ray: The Year in Review, OR Blu-ray Holiday Gift Guide: A “Choose Your Own Adventure” Deciders Feature
Features
Holiday Gift Guide 2014: Boxed Sets and Stellar Releases
Features
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Features
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TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: October 9, 2014
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2014, Day One: “The Judge”
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: August 28, 2014
Festivals & Awards
News: Music Box Theatre in Chicago Announces “Son of 70MM Film Festival”
TV/Streaming
Effective Melodrama of HBO’s “The Normal Heart” with Mark Ruffalo
Features
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Features
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Features
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Features
“It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” Gets the Deluxe Treatment from Criterion
Features
Thumbnails 12/9/2013
Features
A Solid Center: Paul Walker, 1973-2013
Features
Blu-ray Consumer Guide: November 2013
Features
“GET THE PICTURE!”: Public Nominations to the National Film Registry
Features
It’s Always Sunny in Monk’s Cafe
Features
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Roger Ebert
“The Directors”
Scanners
The filmmaker: Wayne Kramer on critics & criticism
Scanners
“This is where we came in…”
Far Flungers
Gary Winick: A valediction forbidding mourning
Festivals & Awards
Outdoor film festival salutes Mickey Mouse, Brando, Grant
Festivals & Awards
Warming up to ‘Cooler’
Festivals & Awards
French greats in top form
Festivals & Awards
Streep at her best exploring people
Festivals & Awards
Blinded by love
Festivals & Awards
Chicago Film Festival Celebrates 30 Years
Festivals & Awards
‘Schindler’ on List for 12 Oscars
Festivals & Awards
Oscar Noms: Kramer & All That Jazz
Interviews
Andrew Sarris, 1928-2012: In Memoriam
Interviews
George C. Scott: In Memoriam
Interviews
