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Bigelow Movie Reviews
Blog Posts That Mention Bigelow
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Alice Winocour on “Couture”
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Rebecca Zlotowski on “A Private Life”
Features
Chaz Ebert’s 30 Best Movies of 2025 (and One Guilty Pleasure)
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2025: The 63rd New York Film Festival Centers Film and Poetry
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Victoria Mahoney on “The Old Guard 2”
Festivals & Awards
Chicago Critics Film Festival 2025 Preview
Festivals & Awards
Chicago Critics Film Festival Announces Full Schedule, Special Guests
Festivals & Awards
10 Films to Thrill You at the 2024 Fantasia International Film Festival
Tributes
Big, Big, Big, Big Movies: Jon Landau (1960-2024)
Tributes
The Fire is Gone: Kenneth Anger (1927-2023)
Tributes
The Real Deal: Tom Sizemore (1961-2023)
Features
The Film That Changed Harrison Ford’s Career: On the 20th Anniversary of K-19: The Widowmaker
Festivals & Awards
Previewing and Predicting the 94th Academy Awards
Features
The Long, Strange Trip for Women Who Have Competed for the Best Director Oscar
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: February 2022
Festivals & Awards
Overdue Oscars: 10 Directors Looking for Their First Academy Award
Interviews
A Love Letter to Musicals: Schmigadoon!’s Director, Co-Writer, and Cast on the New Musical Series
Festivals & Awards
Oscars 2021: Nomadland is the Big Winner at an Unusual Academy Awards
Festivals & Awards
Oscar Predictions 2021
Festivals & Awards
David Fincher’s Mank Leads 93rd Oscar Nominees with 10
Features
Why Are Women Dissed and Dismissed in the Film Industry?
Features
Five Female Directors Who Made Waves in 2020
Festivals & Awards
The 2020 Frontrunners for Best Picture
Festivals & Awards
The 2020 Frontrunners for Best Director
Chaz's Journal
19 Dazzling Favorite Movies and Reviews from 2020
Features
The Dark Side of Harrison Ford: On the Roles That Led to What Lies Beneath
Chaz's Journal
On Natalie Portman’s Statement Dress at the 2020 Oscars
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: August 22, 2019
MZS
The Unloved, Part 68: K-19: The Widowmaker
Chaz's Journal
Thank You, George Cukor and Mitchell Leisen – With Props to Ryan Coogler
Chaz's Journal
Dark Manipulations: On The Silence of the Lambs and Sicario
Chaz's Journal
For Women in Film, 2017 Produced a Bloom of Optimism on the Horizon
Chaz's Journal
It Takes an Army
Festivals & Awards
Greta Gerwig Joins Short Legacy of Female Best Director Nominees
Festivals & Awards
The Shape of Water Tops 2018 Oscar Nominees
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: December 14, 2017
Festivals & Awards
“Get Out” Named Best Film of 2017 by AAFCA
Chaz's Journal
My Favorite Films of 2017
Festivals & Awards
“Get Out,” “Girls Trip” and “Marshall” Lead 49th NAACP Image Award Nominees
Chaz's Journal
Will 2018 Have More Female Oscar Contenders Than Ever?
Festivals & Awards
Deadline’s The Contenders 2017 Kicks Off Oscar Season
Festivals & Awards
Oscars Could Be Facing Dearth of Diversity Yet Again
Features
Man on the Outside: The Films of Willem Dafoe
Interviews
This is Reality: Jacob Latimore, Jason Mitchell and Algee Smith on “Detroit”
Chaz's Journal
The Movie “STEP” Fills Me With Joy
Features
2017 Summer Movie Preview: 25 Films We’re Excited About
Chaz's Journal
The Most Influential Filmmakers of All Time
Features
The Consummate Everyman: Goodbye to Bill Paxton
Features
Bill Paxton: 1955-2017
Features
The Cynicism of the Modern Disaster Film
Features
Thumbnails 8/9/16
TV/Streaming
TNT’s “Animal Kingdom” Remake Lacks Its Own Charisma
MZS
A Celebration of His Work 2016: 13 of Roger’s Best Reviews
Features
Visual Pleasure and Voodoo Demographics: A Reflection on Women and Film (Updated)
Features
Nick Hornby’s Screenplays and the Female Experience
Interviews
Pushing You Into Traffic: A Discussion with Lexi Alexander
Interviews
Comfortable Shoes: Joel Edgerton on “The Gift”
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room June 2015: A History of Violence
Features
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Features
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Features
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Features
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Festivals & Awards
Predictions for the 87th Annual Academy Awards Nominations
Features
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Features
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Festivals & Awards
Awards Race Makes First Gear Shift This Week
Features
Thumbnails 12/5/14
Features
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Interviews
CIFF 2014 Interview: Jessica Chastain
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2014 Interview: The Legendary Liv Ullmann
Interviews
Truly Intelligent Romance: A Few Words with Mark Duplass
Features
Reverse Trip: Charting the History of Bong Joon-Ho’s “Snowpiercer”
Features
Thumbnails 6/9/14
Chaz's Journal
Roger Ebert Scholarship Program for Young Critics Goes to Sundance
Festivals & Awards
Guilds Trifecta Could Put the Final Stamp on the Oscars Race
Festivals & Awards
It Truly Is an Honor Just To Be Nominated
Festivals & Awards
New York Film Critics Circle and National Board of Review Start the Oscar Race
Features
Visual Pleasure and Voodoo Demographics: A Reflection on Women and Film
Features
Thumbnails 9/16/2013
Features
Susan Seidelman, Survivor
Features
Dear Hollywood: Hiring women directors could rescue the superhero movie. Love, half the human race.
Features
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Chaz's Journal
Roger Ebert will receive the Sundance Institute Vanguard Leadership Award
Roger Ebert
Why did Bigelow use “Gears of War,” not “Super Mario Brothers”?
Roger Ebert
Disappointed in the brouhaha
Far Flungers
Peering into the Darkness of the Labyrinth
Roger Ebert
Zero Dark Thirty: A hunch that paid off
Roger Ebert
A pretty good set of nominees
Roger Ebert
National Society of Film Critics falls for “Amour”
Roger Ebert
Three critics’ groups vote on year’s best movies: Consensus forming?
Roger Ebert
DGA honors Bigelow, Cameron, Daniels, Reitman, Tarantino
Roger Ebert
“Hurt Locker” wins 3 big ones from the major critics’ group
Roger Ebert
NY Crix add kudos to ‘Hurt Locker’
Roger Ebert
“Hurt Locker” sweeps the field in Chicago Film Critics’ Awards
Roger Ebert
“Avatar” wins Golden Globes
Roger Ebert
Special effects live up to hype in ‘Titanic’
Roger Ebert
The Best 10 Movies of 1995
Roger Ebert
Evolving Versions of Film Noir Explore Today’s Uneasy Feelings
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Opinions: Are they really worth a damn?
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