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TV/Streaming
Netflix’s “Ransom Canyon” Turns Up the Soapy Drama in Serviceable Second Season
Festivals & Awards
MUBI Fest 2026: Better Together
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide June 2026: Hoppers, Crime 101, The Mastermind, More
Festivals & Awards
Filmspotting Fest Returns to Chicago This Weekend
Festivals & Awards
Tribeca 2026: The Documentaries
Features
Courtney Grace, “Disclosure Day,” and the One-Scene Wonder
TV/Streaming
Hulu’s Limp Sitcom “Not Suitable for Work” Is Hardly Suitable for Primetime
TV/Streaming
“Mating Season” Almost Finds Its Rhythm by the End of Rocky First Season
TV/Streaming
Prime Video’s “Off Campus” is Big on Romance, Music, and Spice
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide April 2026: Send Help, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Highest 2 Lowest, More
Features
Male Directors Can’t Stop Making Movies About Female Pop Stars
TV/Streaming
Netflix’s “Beef” Returns with a Season as Twisted and Hysterical as the First
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide March 2026: Anaconda, The Housemaid, Killers of the Flower Moon, More
TV/Streaming
Lisa Kudrow Makes An Extremely Welcome “Comeback” to HBO
Festivals & Awards
If We Picked the Winners: The 98th Academy Awards
TV/Streaming
Season 2 of “The Last Thing He Told Me” Is the Last Thing You’ll Want to Watch
Festivals & Awards
Remembering the Forgotten Movies of the 2026 Oscar Season
Festivals & Awards
“Sinners” Sets Record with 16 Oscar Nominations
Festivals & Awards
2026 Sundance Preview: 20 Films We Can’t Wait to See
Features
2026 Oscar Nominations Predictions in the Major Categories
Festivals & Awards
“Sinners,” “Bel-Air” Lead NAACP Image Award Nominees
Festivals & Awards
Glitz and Glamour: A Report from the 2026 Palm Springs Festival Gala
Features
40 Movies We Can’t Wait to See in 2026
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide December 2025: “Black Phone 2,” “Bugonia,” “Good Fortune,” More
Video Games
The 9 Best Video Games of 2025
TV/Streaming
FOX’s “Best Medicine” is a Shoddy Import
Tributes
How Come They Don’t Fly Away?: James Ransone (1979-2025)
Features
The 10 Best Horror Films of 2025
Features
The Great Craft of 2025
Features
The Great Performances of 2025
TV/Streaming
The 25 Best TV Shows of 2025
Interviews
A Multifaceted Conversation About Faith: Rian Johnson on “Wake Up Dead Man”
Festivals & Awards
Sundance Film Festival Announces 2026 Line-Up
Festivals & Awards
“One Battle After Another,” “Sinners” Lead Chicago Film Critics Association Nominees
Interviews
Cinema Is My Church: Rian Johnson on “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery”
Short Films in Focus
Short Films in Focus: Off the Face of the Earth (with Michael Pantozzi)
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide November 2025: “Familiar Touch,” “Eyes Wide Shut,” “Splitsville”
Interviews
Felt More than Heard: Nathan Johnson on Composing his Third “Knives Out” Movie, “Wake Up Dead Man”
Interviews
I’m Just An Actor: Rebuilding Roles with Josh O’Connor
TV/Streaming
Season Two of “Palm Royale” Succeeds by Embracing its Funny Side
Interviews
Hard Places: Max Walker-Silverman on “Rebuilding”
TV/Streaming
HBO’s Zennial Comedy “I Love LA” Lets Rachel Sennott Navigate Life, Love, and Influence
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide October 2025: “F1,” “Eddington,” “Weapons”
Festivals & Awards
CIFF 2025: One Golden Summer, Before the Call, Adult Children, Only Heaven Knows
Interviews
It’s A Process: Kelly Reichardt on “The Mastermind” and Josh O’Connor’s Timeless Mug
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2025: The 63rd New York Film Festival Centers Film and Poetry
TV/Streaming
Sterlin Harjo Aims High, Does Not Miss with FX’s “The Lowdown”
Festivals & Awards
The Telluride Tea: Reflections and Highlights of the 2025 Telluride Film Festival
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2025: Wake Up Dead Man, Rental Family
Festivals & Awards
Venice Film Festival 2025: The Biennale College
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2025: 20 World Premieres We Can’t Wait to See
Festivals & Awards
Locarno Film Festival 2025: Blue Heron, Dracula, Legend Of The Happy Worker
MZS
Josh Larsen on the Return of Cinema Interruptus
Festivals & Awards
Fantasia 2025: A Grand Mockery, Every Heavy Thing, Anything That Moves
Features
Everywhere You Go Has Valet: “Clueless” at 30 (Or Whatever)
Features
The 10 Best Oasis Needle Drops
Short Films in Focus
Short Films in Focus: Q&A with “Living Reality” Director Philip Thompson
TV/Streaming
FX’s “The Bear” Serves Another Course Of Dreamlike Intensity in Season Four
DVD/Blu-Ray
June 2025 Blu-Ray/Streaming Guide: “Drop,” “The Nice Guys,” “Dark City,” More
Features
On the Renewed and Continuing Necessity of “Exterminate All the Brutes”
Festivals & Awards
Tribeca Film Festival 2025: The Documentaries
Interviews
Humanizing the Sharks: Sean Byrne on “Dangerous Animals”
Festivals & Awards
59th Karlovy Vary Film Festival Announces Official Selection and Juries
Chaz at Cannes
Cannes 2025 Video #7: Critics’ Roundtable
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2025: Second Takes on a Few Fest Darlings
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2025: The Mastermind, Young Mothers
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2025: Sentimental Value, Romería, The History of Sound
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2025: The Chronology of Water, Urchin
TV/Streaming
J.J. Abrams, Josh Holloway Reunite on Clever if Inconsistent “Duster”
TV/Streaming
What to Watch on Netflix: May 2025
DVD/Blu-Ray
April 2025 Blu-Ray Guide: “Anora,” “The Brutalist,” “Heart Eyes,” “One of Them Days,” More
DVD/Blu-Ray
March 2025 Blu-Ray Guide: “Babygirl,” “Sing Sing,” “Den of Thieves 2,” “Moana 2”
Features
How Ken Burns’ “Shadow Ball” Connects Baseball’s Past to Our Uncertain Future
Interviews
Chicago’s Own Filmspotting Podcast Celebrates 20 Years With Inaugural Festival
Features
A Salute to the Movies That Got Overlooked During Oscar Season
TV/Streaming
“Suits: LA” Is Dumb, Glossy Nothingness
TV/Streaming
Pixar’s Charming but Compromised “Win or Lose” Catches A Few Foul Balls
Features
Brenda Robinson, Acting President of Film Independent, Set to Preside Over 40th Spirit Awards; Aidy Bryant Cheerfully Returns as Host
TV/Streaming
Netflix’s “Cobra Kai” Lands One Final Nostalgic Punch In Its Last Episodes
Festivals & Awards
10 Great Performances from Sundance 2025
DVD/Blu-Ray
January 2025 Blu-Ray Guide: “Hundreds of Beavers,” “Smile 2,” “Venom: The Last Dance,” and More
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2025: Rebuilding, Together, Peter Hujar’s Day
Festivals & Awards
Sundance Film Festival 2025 Preview: 20 Films We Can’t Wait to See
Festivals & Awards
Beachside Mingling at a Poignant Spirit Awards Nominee Brunch
Tributes
Film Independent President Josh Welsh Dies at 62
DVD/Blu-Ray
December 2024 Blu-Ray Guide: “The Wild Robot,” “Conclave,” “Alien: Romulus,” More
Features
The Great Performances of 2024, Part Two
Festivals & Awards
2025 Sundance Film Festival Announces Ambitious Program
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