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MUBI Fest 2026: Better Together
Festivals & Awards
Karlovy Vary Announces 2026 Award Winners
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2026: Table of Contents
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2026: Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean, Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2026 Video #4: Festival Dispatch with Zachary Lee
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2026: Ken Russell’s The Devils, Pan’s Labyrinth, Moonlighting
Ebertfest
“Get Out” Star Betty Gabriel and “Nuremberg” Director James Vanderbilt to Attend Ebertfest 2026
Festivals & Awards
Full Schedule for Ebertfest 2026 Released and Individual Tickets Now On Sale
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide March 2026: Anaconda, The Housemaid, Killers of the Flower Moon, More
Festivals & Awards
SXSW 2026: Imposters, Sender, Monitor
TV/Streaming
In Taylor Sheridan’s “The Madison,” Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell Weather an Urban-Rural Romance
Festivals & Awards
If We Picked the Winners: The 98th Academy Awards
Women Writers Week
Across 50 Seasons, “Survivor” Reflects Evolving Views of American Women
Women Writers Week
Reflections on Nuremberg: Lessons on Evil
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide February 2026: “Predator: Badlands,” “Song Song Blue,” “A Little Prayer,” More
Ebertfest
Ebertfest Unveils Initial Slate for Final Festival, “The Last Dance”
TV/Streaming
“Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” Maintains Momentum in Confident Second Season
Festivals & Awards
“Train Dreams” Wins Big at the 2026 Independent Spirit Awards
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2026: The Weight, The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, See You When I See You
Festivals & Awards
2026 Sundance Preview: 20 Films We Can’t Wait to See
Features
2026 Oscar Nominations Predictions in the Major Categories
TV/Streaming
40 Shows We Can’t Wait to Watch in 2026
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide December 2025: “Black Phone 2,” “Bugonia,” “Good Fortune,” More
Features
The Great Performances of 2025
Features
Two Thumbs Up! The Individual Top Tens of 2025
Festivals & Awards
Sundance Film Festival Announces 2026 Line-Up
Interviews
Adaptation is About Subtraction: James Vanderbilt on “Nuremberg”
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide October 2025: “F1,” “Eddington,” “Weapons”
TV/Streaming
In the Third Season of “The Diplomat,” It’s All Upsides and Distances, Darling
TV/Streaming
“Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy” is a Tough but Important Watch
TV/Streaming
Season 3 of “Tulsa King” Features Boomers, Bullets, and Bourbon, Oh My
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2025: Eternal Return, Nuremberg, Carolina Caroline
Interviews
You Don’t Know What Your Time Is Like Until Later: Alex Russell on “Lurker”
TV/Streaming
Apple TV+, Seth Rogen Continue Hot Streaks with Second Season of “Platonic”
Features
The Rite to Save a Life
TV/Streaming
What to Watch on Netflix: May 2025
Festivals & Awards
Chicago Critics Film Festival 2025 Preview
Festivals & Awards
Chicago Critics Film Festival Announces Full Schedule, Special Guests
Tributes
The Most Unsung Leading Man of His Generation: Val Kilmer (1959-2025)
Features
He Never Made the Same Choice Twice: 10 of Our Favorite Gene Hackman Performances
Features
From Gena to Annette: Great Actresses with Oscar Nominations but No Wins
DVD/Blu-Ray
February 2025 Blu-Ray Guide: “Wicked,” “Nosferatu,” “Here,” “Heretic,” More
TV/Streaming
What to Watch on Netflix: February 2025
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2025: Lurker; Free Leonard Peltier; Oh, Hi
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2025: Sunfish (and Other Stories on Green Lake), Plainclothes
Festivals & Awards
2025 Sundance Film Festival Announces Ambitious Program
Interviews
You Don’t Lie When You Pray: Paul Schrader on “Oh, Canada”
TV/Streaming
Netflix’s Sharp “The Diplomat” Offers Escapism for Political Junkies
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room October 2024: All Hail the Screwball Queen by Olympia Kiriakou
Festivals & Awards
The State of the 2024 Oscar Race
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2024: Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Sharp Corner, The Quiet Ones
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2024: Dahomey, Bird, Oh Canada
Interviews
Tina Mabry and Edward Kelsey Moore on the Joy and Uplift of The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat
Features
The Future Was Now Warps Through the Seminal Sci-Fi Summer of 1982
MZS
The Unloved, Part 127: Highlander II: The Quickening
Features
How Cold War Thrillers Expressed Presidential Campaign Concerns
Festivals & Awards
The 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Unveils Its Official Selection
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2024: Kinds of Kindness; Oh, Canada; Scénarios
TV/Streaming
Doctor Who Travels to Disney+ For a Lavish, Fun New Regeneration
Features
The 10 Best Start-of-Summer-Movie-Season Films of the 21st Century
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: April 2024
Features
Luca Guadagnino Is Love
MZS
Part of the Solution: Matthew Modine on Acting, Empathy, and Hard Miles
Tributes
O.J. Simpson Dies: The Rise & Fall of A Superstar
Festivals & Awards
Which Cannes Film Will Win the Palme d’Or? Let’s Rank Their Chances
Features
Doug Liman Never Does Things the Easy Way
Interviews
Karen Gillan Is Hiding in Plain Sight
Features
Working with Complete Fantasy: On the Legacy of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
TV/Streaming
Apple TV+ Gets A Bit Too Silly With The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
Features
The Internet Will Never Let Russell Crowe Forget Les Miserables
MZS
All That Kong: When Bob Fosse Wanted to Make a King Kong Movie
Features
10 Music Documentaries You Should See After The Greatest Night in Pop
Interviews
Artists We Spoke to in 2023: Some of Our Favorite Interviews
Features
A Report from the Color Purple Special Screening with Oprah Winfrey
TV/Streaming
Apple TV+’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Doesn’t Have a Big Enough Footprint
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room October 2023: Killing Time: 3:10 to Yuma & the Lonesome West by Nicholas Russell
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Meg Ryan on What Happens Later
Features
Why Horror Has Been Killing It in 2023
TV/Streaming
Julian Fellowes’ The Gilded Age Allows Sprawling Cast to Shine in Second Season
Festivals & Awards
CIFF 2023: All Happy Families, Bike Vessel, Departing Seniors, Memorial
TV/Streaming
Young Love Makes for a Powerful Family Portrait
Festivals & Awards
Noir City Returns to the Music Box in Chicago
Festivals & Awards
Fantasia 2023: River, The Becomers, Aporia
Tributes
Everything Is Fate: Julian Sands (1958-2023)
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: June 2023
Black Writers Week
Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All and the Inescapable Desire to Belong
Festivals & Awards
KVIFF 2023 Announces Competition Titles, Premieres, and More
Tributes
Goodbye to a Legend: Tina Turner (1939-2023)
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: May 2023
Festivals & Awards
Karlovy Vary to Honor Russell Crowe
Tributes
A Piece of His Fire: Harry Belafonte (1927-2023)
TV/Streaming
Netflix’s Promising The Diplomat is Anchored by Great Performances
TV/Streaming
Charming Comedy Jury Duty Makes Case for a Different Verdict
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room February 2023: The Unflattering Portrait: On Armageddon Time and Failed Solidarity by Nicholas Russell
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: January 2023
Festivals & Awards
10 Major Snubs and Surprises from the 2023 Oscar Nominations
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2023: Earth Mama, Fremont
Features
The Great Performances of 2022
Interviews
