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Desire Never Goes Away: Sarah Friedland and Kathleen Chalfant on “Familiar Touch”

Blood and Soap Bubbles on the Surface of Netflix’s “The Waterfront”

The Rite to Save a Life

Lookin’s Free: Joe Don Baker (1936-2025)

Remembering Jan Dawson, My Mother-in-Law (Twice)

Robert Daniels & Odie Henderson Talk Sinners

Prime Video’s “The Bondsman” Takes Kevin Bacon on a Drab Trip to Hell and Back

Life Sustained by Desire: Alain Guiraudie on “Misericordia”

SXSW Film Festival 2025: The Rivals of Amziah King, Hallow Road, The Dutchman

True/False 2025: Seeds, River of Grass, How Deep Is Your Love

“El Norte” Screening Commemorates Sundance Institute History at Pivotal Moment

Sundance 2025: Bunnylovr, Atropia, Love, Brooklyn

Sundance 2025: Rebuilding, Together, Peter Hujar’s Day

Sundance 2025: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, The Thing with Feathers, Rabbit Trap

Out of the Ashes: Let the 2025 Oscars Be a Telethon for Wildfire Relief

Sundance Film Festival 2025 Preview: 20 Films We Can’t Wait to See

The Metaphor Years: Writing Lessons from “The Twilight Zone”

Not Everything Needs to be for Sale: on the Integrity of the Watch Duty App

What’s gone can never be replaced: thoughts on Los Angeles, disasters, and the present moment

The Great Craft of 2024

2025 Sundance Film Festival Announces Ambitious Program

Our Film Has A Power: Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham on No Other Land

Chaz Ebert, CEO of RogerEbert.com, Makes Directorial Debut with “Wellness Warrior”

TIFF 2024: The Return, Riff Raff, The Friend

Telluride Film Festival 2024: Blink, Apocalypse in the Tropics, Carville: Winning is Everything, Stupid!

Fight or Flight: Jeremy Saulnier on Rebel Ridge

FX’s “English Teacher” Gets an Incomplete Grade for Now

Short Films in Focus: Welcome to the Enclave

The Hard Road: Alex Cox on Crowdfunding, Success, and a Life in Independent Filmmaking

Big, Big, Big, Big Movies: Jon Landau (1960-2024)

Hulu’s “UnPrisoned” Takes Bigger Swings In Its Self-Assured Second Season

Catching a Blackfamous White Whale on Broadway: Purlie Victorious Comes Home

Robert Daniels & Odie Henderson Talk Wild Wild West at 25

How Cold War Thrillers Expressed Presidential Campaign Concerns

A Dream for a Composer: John Debney on “The Garfield Movie” and “Horizon: An American Saga”

A Special Kind of Beauty: Viggo Mortensen on The Dead Don’t Hurt

Cannes 2024: Marcello Mio, Parthenope, Elementary

Living Through Words: Ethan Hawke on His Career, Poetry, and Wildcat

I’ve Never Seen Anything Like It Before: Roger Corman (1926-2024)

He’s Got Something Going On: David Proval on Mean Streets, and Acting for Martin Scorsese

O.J. Simpson Dies: The Rise & Fall of A Superstar

A Plea for Someone to Save Megalopolis

How The Ladykillers Kicked Off Tom Hanks’ Weirdest Year Two Decades Ago

Giancarlo Esposito Can’t Keep Overcrowded, Rushed Parish on the Road

True/False 2024: Coming Home Again

You’re Naked Without Us: A Report from the Costume Designers Guild

Dead Ringers: Rebirthing Body Horror

Stay Vigilant: Directors Camille Hardman and Gary Lane on Still Working 9 to 5

The Perfection of the Human Soul: The Cast of Groundhog Day Celebrates Harold Ramis

Female Filmmakers in Focus: Nancy Savoca on Household Saints

A Report from the Color Purple Special Screening with Oprah Winfrey

Female Filmmakers in Focus: Noora Niasari on Shayda

Bright Wall/Dark Room October 2023: Killing Time: 3:10 to Yuma & the Lonesome West by Nicholas Russell

A Goodbye to Shaft, Hollywood’s First ‘Bad’ Black Man: Richard Roundtree (1942-2023)

MOMA Launches Iranian Cinema Before the Revolution, 1925-1979

TIFF 2023: The Beast, Evil Does Not Exist, Shoshana, Green Border

Hollywood & The March on Washington: When Fame Overcame Fear

He Did It All: William Friedkin (1935-2023)

Meet the Writers of Black Writers Week 2023

Cannes 2023: Highlights of the Year’s Festival

The Fire is Gone: Kenneth Anger (1927-2023)

Cinema’s Man of Steel: Jim Brown (1936-2023)

Netflix’s Mulligan Tries to Find Comedy in Post Apocalyptic Cartoon

Ebert Symposium 2023 to Precede Ebertfest on April 18th & 19th

Empathy Machine: Diary of a Country Priest

Ebertfest 2023: Studio Head Jason Michael Berman and Director Edson Oda Open Festival with Nine Days

True/False 2023: Ebert Fellows on Their Favorites from This Year’s Event

SXSW 2023: Blackberry, Problemista, The Long Game

SXSW 2023: Only the Good Survive, The Wrath of Becky, It Lives Inside

Tragically Common: Jamie Dack, Lily McInerny and Jonathan Tucker on Palm Trees and Power Lines

Berlinale 2023 Highlights, Part One: She Came to Me, Blackberry, The Survival of Kindness

Book Excerpt: In the Time of Kiarostami: Writings on Iranian Cinema by Godfrey Cheshire

The Great Filmmaking Craft of 2022

The Great Performances of 2022

Something Comes Out of Me That Has a Fatherly Quality: Paul Dooley on His New Book Movie Dad

Isaac Feldberg’s Overlooked Films of 2022

Love is a Form of Resistance: Chinonye Chukwu & Danielle Deadwyler on Till

TIFF 2022: El agua, Maya and the Wave, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

I’m Afraid of Other People and Myself: Christian Tafdrup on Speak No Evil

Female Filmmakers in Focus: Adamma Ebo and Adanne Ebo on Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.

Lyndall Hobbs Has Mixed Feelings about Back to the Beach

Five Movies to See OIT (Only in Theaters)

We’re Only as Good as Our Generation: Ethan Hawke on The Last Movie Stars

Bright Wall/Dark Room July 2022: Bad Times at the El Royale: You Think I Can’t See You for Who You Really Are? by Sarah Welch-Larson

Bright Wall/Dark Room June 2022: Most Wonderful by Nathaniel Missildine

TV’s Rural Craze & The Civil Rights Movement

Meet the Writers of Black Writers Week 2022

A New Class Of Filmmakers: ABFF and HBO Short Film Award Finalists Bring Their Stories To Life

15 African-American Filmmakers and Roger Ebert’s Birthday Retrospective Reviews

There Are Many Different Types of Deaths: On This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection

Cannes 2022: Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind, Moonage Daydream

Mellody Hobson Receives 2022 Lincoln Leadership Prize

He Made Everything Better: Fred Ward (1942-2022)

No More Blue Tomorrows: David Lynch’s Inland Empire Returns to Theaters

Short Films in Focus: Laura, Carlton and the Tijuana Bulls

Vanessa Bayer Smiles Through the Pain in I Love That For You
