John Singleton Movie Reviews
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Roger Ebert
Roger loves Chaz
July 18, 2026
Black Writers Week
Hard Knocks and Rebirth in the Bayou: Alfre Woodard in “Passion Fish”
June 19, 2026
Black Writers Week
Robert Daniels & Odie Henderson Talk “Baby Boy” at 25
June 19, 2026
Black Writers Week
Uncomfortable Truths: “Set It Off,” “Girl 6,” and “Naked Acts” at 30
June 19, 2026
Black Writers Week
Through My Lens: The Accidental Archivist of ‘90s Howard University
June 16, 2026
Black Writers Week
Intro to Black Writers Week 2026
June 15, 2026
DVD/Blu-Ray
Criterion Venerates Three Essential Works of ’90s Black Cinema with “John Singleton’s Hood Trilogy”
April 29, 2026
Features
Highlights of Roger Ebert on Black Filmmakers for Black History Month
February 18, 2026
Festivals & Awards
A Preview of the 2025 Black Harvest Film Festival
November 4, 2025
Tributes
11 Times That D’Angelo Made a Movie Better with his Music
October 17, 2025
Black Writers Week
50 Years Later, Cooley High Is Still Alive
June 19, 2025
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide May 2025: Better Man, Black Bag, Mickey 17, More
May 30, 2025
Festivals & Awards
If We Picked the Winners: The 97th Academy Awards
February 25, 2025
TV/Streaming
“Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man” Brings Marvel’s Web-Slinger Down to Street Level
January 29, 2025
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2025: Twinless, Ricky, Jimpa
January 25, 2025
Interviews
Albany Road Interview: Christine Swanson and Renée Elise Goldsberry
June 21, 2024
Black Writers Week
Robert Daniels & Odie Henderson Talk Wild Wild West at 25
June 18, 2024
Black Writers Week
You Ready To Be the King?: Fresh Turns 30
June 17, 2024
Festivals & Awards
Black Harvest Film Festival 2023 Highlights: John Singleton, Tyler Perry, and A Vibrant Artistic Community
November 17, 2023
Black Writers Week
When Angela Bassett Found Her Inner Tina Turner
June 21, 2023
Black Writers Week
Rise of the Beats: On Hip-Hop and Hollywood
June 18, 2023
Chaz at Cannes
Cannes 2023: DePaul University/CHA Youth Resident Filmmakers Isis Gullette, Unique Moore and Christal Westmoreland Arrive in the Riviera
May 19, 2023
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: December 2022
December 27, 2022
Chaz's Journal
Odie Henderson: An Anniversary Celebration
August 4, 2022
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room June 2022: Most Wonderful by Nathaniel Missildine
June 28, 2022
Black Writers Week
The Legacy of Gen-X Black Filmmakers
June 20, 2022
Black Writers Week
Silver Screen Approved: The Top 5 Actors from Hip-Hop
June 18, 2022
Chaz's Journal
Celebrate Roger’s 80th Birthday with 2014 Google+ Hangout Event
June 18, 2022
Roger Ebert
15 African-American Filmmakers and Roger Ebert’s Birthday Retrospective Reviews
June 17, 2022
Festivals & Awards
TCM Film Festival 2022: Highlights of Getting Back to the Big Screen
May 2, 2022
Festivals & Awards
CIFF 2021: Oscar Micheaux—The Superhero of Black Cinema, Punch 9 for Harold Washington, Love Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter
October 15, 2021
Black Writers Week
Why I Keep Making Movies
June 16, 2021
Black Writers Week
Black Writers Week 2021: Table of Contents
June 10, 2021
Festivals & Awards
The 2020 Frontrunners for Best Director
January 4, 2021
Tributes
Goodbye to a King: On the Death of Chadwick Boseman
August 30, 2020
Interviews
The Art Takes You Out of This: RZA on Cut Throat City
August 24, 2020
TV/Streaming
They’ve Gotta Have Us Charts Black Experience in Cinema
February 4, 2020
Festivals & Awards
Black Cinema to be Celebrated by the Critics Choice Association at December 2nd Ceremony Honoring Murphy, Long, Ejiofor and Lemmons
November 19, 2019
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2019 Video #8: Justice Singleton, Elizabeth & Pamela Guest and the Ebert Fellows
June 7, 2019
Features
Thumbnails Special Edition: Our Cannes 2019 Coverage
June 3, 2019
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2019: Justice Singleton on the Legacy of Her Father, John Singleton
May 24, 2019
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2019 Videos: Table of Contents
May 20, 2019
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2019: Table of Contents
May 20, 2019
Features
Breaking Barriers: Goodbye to John Singleton
May 1, 2019
Features
John Singleton: 1968-2019
April 29, 2019
Features
Looking Back at the Films Directed by the Late John Singleton
April 29, 2019
Chaz's Journal
22 Years Later, Kasi Lemmons’ Eve’s Bayou is Still Making an Impact
March 6, 2019
Chaz's Journal
How the Image of Black Women Has (and Hasn’t) Changed in the Last Two Decades
March 6, 2019
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: February 7, 2019
February 7, 2019
Features
Thumbnails Special Edition: “Crazy Rich Asians” and Representation in Hollywood
August 27, 2018
Festivals & Awards
The Power of Community: A Recap of the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival
May 4, 2018
Festivals & Awards
The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Win Big at 90th Oscars
March 5, 2018
Festivals & Awards
Inclusion Rider: Backstage at the 90th Academy Awards
March 5, 2018
Festivals & Awards
The Shape of Water Tops 2018 Oscar Nominees
January 23, 2018
Chaz's Journal
Roger Ebert’s Birthday 2017: Table of Contents
June 19, 2017
Far Flungers
The L.A. Riots: 25 Years Later
April 30, 2017
Festivals & Awards
Taken for Granted: Awards Veterans Like Streep, Hanks and Washington Deserve Their Nominations
December 20, 2016
Interviews
Outstanding, Black Music: Raphael Saadiq on “Underground,” “Insecure”
November 8, 2016
Festivals & Awards
African-American Film Critics-Black Oscars?
February 8, 2016
Chaz's Journal
Video: Roger Ebert’s 2014 Birthday Celebration
June 17, 2015
Features
Unstoppable Force: A Look at the “Fast & Furious” Franchise
April 7, 2015
Chaz's Journal
Memories of Roger: My Photo Journal from the Last Two Years
March 27, 2015
Chaz's Journal
GOOGLE+ HANGOUT CELEBRATING ROGER EBERT’S BIRTHDAY 2014
June 18, 2014
Festivals & Awards
Sundance Report: Championing a Gem “Imperial Dreams”
January 21, 2014
Features
Black FIlm and TV Directors in 2013: A Progress Report
December 19, 2013
Roger Ebert
DGA honors Bigelow, Cameron, Daniels, Reitman, Tarantino
December 19, 2012
Roger Ebert
The Best 10 Movies of 1991
December 19, 2012
Roger Ebert
It’s high tide for black new wave
December 19, 2012
Scanners
Wesley Morris’s Pulitzer Prize-winning hits
December 14, 2012
Scanners
Black humor: Stepin Fetchit to Richard Pryorto Tyler Perry (Part II)
December 14, 2012
Scanners
Revulsion
December 14, 2012
Festivals & Awards
Two war films, worlds apart: ‘Avatar,’ ‘Hurt Locker’ lead Oscar noms
December 14, 2012
Festivals & Awards
Ebert chairs indie film panel
December 14, 2012
Festivals & Awards
Sundance standouts reflect black indie tradition
December 14, 2012
Festivals & Awards
Class of ’94 gets their due at Cannes
December 14, 2012
Festivals & Awards
Questions for the Oscar Answer Man
December 14, 2012
Festivals & Awards
Of cannibals and Camelot, beauties and Beatty
December 14, 2012
Festivals & Awards
A ‘Silence’ sweep?
December 14, 2012
Festivals & Awards
Hughes brothers carry on a tradition at Cannes
December 14, 2012
Interviews
Terrence Howard’s very good year
December 14, 2012
Interviews
Singleton graduates to ‘Higher Learning’
December 14, 2012
Interviews
A Family Tree Grows in Spike Lee’s “Crooklyn”
December 14, 2012
Interviews
John Singleton Recites The Poetry of Cinema
December 14, 2012
Movie Answer Man
Movie Answer Man (06/01/1994)
December 14, 2012
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