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Explore the World of “Dune: Awakening”
The 20 Best Films of 2025 So Far
Chicago Latino Film Festival 2025: Highlights of a Creative Force
The Ebert Fellows on True/False 2025
SXSW Film Festival 2025: Forge, Slanted, The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick
In “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Women Fight the Darkness—And Are Tempted By It
“Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man” Brings Marvel’s Web-Slinger Down to Street Level
The Great Craft of 2024
It’s Time to Give a FECK: Elevating Humanity through Forgiveness, Empathy, Compassion and Kindness (book by Chaz Ebert, with Foreword by Tamron Hall)
The Best Films of 2024
Miyazaki, Howl, and Matters of the Heart
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Coralie Fargeat on “The Substance”
A Force For Good: Richard Simmons (1948-2024)
Female Filmmakers In Focus: Agnieszka Holland
Beautiful and Haunted: Jeff Nichols on The Bikeriders
The Shield vs. The Wire
House of the Dragon Returns with a Captivating Yet Convoluted Second Season
Far, Far Away: How to Get People Going to Movies Again
Cannes 2024: The Girl with the Needle, Wild Diamond
Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar Wastes Its Lavish Potential
The 10 Best Start-of-Summer-Movie-Season Films of the 21st Century
Retrospective: Oscar Micheaux and the Birth of Black Independent Cinema
Tomorrow There Will Be Fine Weather: A Preview of NYC’s Upcoming Hiroshi Shimizu Retrospective
Home Entertainment Guide: April 2024
The True Triumph of Robert Downey Jr.’s Second Act
A Man of Many Talents: Carl Weathers (1948-2024)
Sundance 2024: Frida, Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza, Luther: Never Too Much
A Preview of the 2024 Iranian Film Festival New York
HBO’s True Detective: Night Country is a Haunting, Riveting Return to Form
The List is Life: On the 30th Anniversary of Schindler’s List
The Great Craft of 2023
The Great Performances of 2023
The 25 Best TV Series of 2023
How Martin Scorsese Uses Music to Enhance His Visions
A Human Face: Christian Friedel on The Zone of Interest
A Farewell and Tribute to Our Senior Editor, Nick Allen
As The Crown’s Final Season Begins, the Netflix Hit Slips Fully into Melodrama
Black Harvest Film Festival 2023 Interview: Monica Sorelle on Her Richly Personal Mountains
Apple TV+’s The Buccaneers Shakes Up High Society
Bright Wall/Dark Room October 2023: Killing Time: 3:10 to Yuma & the Lonesome West by Nicholas Russell
FX Delivers a Lackluster Thriller With A Murder at the End of the World
Paramount+’s Western Expanse Broadens With the Riveting Lawmen: Bass Reeves
CIFF 2023: Robot Dreams, The Crime is Mine, Limbo
59th Chicago International Film Festival Announces Award-Winners
Unexpected Romantic Voyage Continues in Confident Second Season of Our Flag Means Death
Bright Wall/Dark Room September 2023: I Used to Float, Now I Just Fall Down by Lindsey Romain
Bright Wall/Dark Room August 2023: My Money is Still in Your Pocket by Sarah Welch-Larson
The Ranown Westerns Join the Criterion Collection
Rise of the Beats: On Hip-Hop and Hollywood
The Fire is Gone: Kenneth Anger (1927-2023)
How Catherine Breillat Challenges Expectations of Sex in Modern Cinema
A Preview of the 2023 Rendez-Vous with French Cinema
Berlinale 2023 Highlights, Part One: She Came to Me, Blackberry, The Survival of Kindness
Sundance 2023: The Persian Version, Mutt
Home Entertainment Guide: Horror Movie Edition
Prime Video’s The Peripheral is a Sci-fi Slog
On The Rise of Taylor Swift, Filmmaker
Bright Wall/Dark Room August 2022: Innerspace: When I Look In Your Eye by Frank Falisi
Create the Legend: Erich von Stroheim’s Foolish Wives
Some Idea of Me: On the 10th Anniversary of Ruby Sparks
Prime Video’s The Terminal List is an Alpha Male Cry for Help
15 African-American Filmmakers and Roger Ebert’s Birthday Retrospective Reviews
Cannes 2022: Highlights of the Return of the Legendary Film Festival
Death Game: A Grindhouse Classic Returns to Theaters
SXSW 2022: Slash/Back, Soft & Quiet, Nika
From Kristen Stewart to Benedict Cumberbatch: Tribute Highlights from the Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2022
Kirsten Dunst, Always on the Brink of Transformation
Monica Vitti: 1931-2022
Sundance 2022: Navalny, Descendant, Aftershock
Sundance 2022: Jihad Rehab, I Didn’t See You There, The Janes
Sundance 2022: A House Made of Splinters, Midwives, The Mission, Sirens
Sundance 2022: Fire of Love, Riotsville, USA, La Guerra Civil
A Director Who Had Fun: Lina Wertmüller (1928-2021)
Critics Choice Awards Celebration of Black Cinema & Television to Honor Will Smith, Ruth Negga and More on December 6th
TIFF 2021: A Torontonian’s Take on a Tumultuous TIFF
Michael K. Williams: 1966-2021
KVIFF 2021: A Conversation with Ethan Hawke
Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers is a Crowded, Tedious Retreat
Disney+’s What If…? is a Cynical Remix of MCU Storylines
Diving Deep: Shahad Ameen on the Feminist Folkore of Her Directorial Debut, Scales
Look Away, Look Away
Home Entertainment Guide: June 2021
