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Affleck Movie Reviews
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Festivals & Awards
SXSW 2026: The Sun Never Sets, A Safe Distance, Seahorse
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide December 2025: “Black Phone 2,” “Bugonia,” “Good Fortune,” More
Features
The Golden Boy: 11 of Our Favorite Robert Redford Performances
Features
Clear Eyes, Full Heart, Can’t Lose: The Enduring Legacy of “Friday Night Lights”
Interviews
Rescuing a Movie About Angels From the Devil Himself: Kevin Smith on “Dogma”
TV/Streaming
What to Watch on Netflix: June 2025
Festivals & Awards
Oscar Nominations Predictions 2025
Features
Panic! At the Disco: Body Double at 40
Tributes
A Reliable Force: John Ashton (1948-2024)
Festivals & Awards
Venice Film Festival 2024: Happyend, Pavements, Familiar Touch
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2024: 20 World Premieres We Can’t Wait to See
Features
Vote for Neuro(diversity): On the 20th Anniversary of Napoleon Dynamite
Festivals & Awards
Nine Major Omissions from the 2024 Oscar Nominations
Chaz's Journal
Trailers for Chaz Ebert’s Top 10(-ish) Films of 2023
Chaz's Journal
The Year of Black Men in Cinema: Chaz Ebert’s Top Ten(-ish) Films of 2023
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: November 2023
Features
Streetcorner Symphony: The Music of Mean Streets
Festivals & Awards
Telluride Film Festival 2023 Highlights
Features
From Willy Wonka to Barbie: Selling a Movie While Selling a Product
Tributes
Acting Magic: Alan Arkin (1934-2023)
Features
The Best Films of 2023 … So Far
Features
Airwaves: The Top 40 Beauty of the Air Soundtrack
Chaz's Journal
The Movie AIR Celebrates Michael Jordan’s Mother
Festivals & Awards
Ebert Symposium 2023 to Precede Ebertfest on April 18th & 19th
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest 2023: Studio Head Jason Michael Berman and Director Edson Oda Open Festival with Nine Days
Features
The Great Performances of 2022
Features
The Film That Changed Harrison Ford’s Career: On the 20th Anniversary of K-19: The Widowmaker
Festivals & Awards
Roger’s Top Ten Lists: Best Films of 2012
Features
24 Great Performances of 2021
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: December 2021, New Releases
Features
Overdue Oscars: The 2021 Actors Looking for Their First Academy Awards
Festivals & Awards
The Films That Could Shake Up the Oscar Race
Festivals & Awards
57th Chicago International Film Festival Announces Full Schedule; Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch to Open
Features
We Do What We Can to Endure: On Memory and Time in David Lowery’s Films
Interviews
When The Façades Break Down: Brad Ingelsby on Mare Of Easttown
Features
Book Review: Underexposed! The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made Presents Fascinating Alternate History
Festivals & Awards
SXSW 2021: Clerk, Not Going Quietly, Tom Petty: Somewhere You Feel Free
MZS
The Joke’s On Him: Tom Cruise and Eyes Wide Shut
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2021 Announces Virtual Competition, Premiere, Midnight Titles and More
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: November 2020
Festivals & Awards
Venice Film Festival 2020: The World to Come, Dear Comrades, Apples
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: May 28, 2020
Features
‘It’s Not Your Fault’: On Hanging Out and Healing in Good Will Hunting
Chaz's Journal
Welcome to Women Writers Week 2020
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: February 20, 2020
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2020 Announces Competition, Midnight, Premiere Titles and More
Features
The Best Films of the 2010s
Interviews
The Legendary Edward James Olmos on Stand and Deliver, American Me, Battlestar Galactica and More
Features
The Lost Souls of Joaquin Phoenix
Far Flungers
Playing it Luce: Questions for a complicated movie
Festivals & Awards
The 20 Most Exciting World Premieres of TIFF 2019
Festivals & Awards
TIFF Announces First Wave of Gala and Special Presentation Films
TV/Streaming
Kevin Bacon Leads Showtime Crime Saga City on a Hill
Features
Thumbnails 1/25/19
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room December 2018: An Essay on A Ghost Story, Certain Women and Food by Marissa Higgins
Features
Thumbnails Special Edition: National Disability Employment Awareness Month
Festivals & Awards
Roger Loves the Toronto International Film Festival
TV/Streaming
An American Hero Returns in Thrilling New Series, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan
TV/Streaming
Jack Ryan Movies Released on 4K Blu-ray
Features
Comic-Con 2018: A Sneak Peek at Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan
Festivals & Awards
KVIFF 2018: Winter Flies and Opening Night
Features
Why John Krasinski Isn’t a Surprising Director for A Quiet Place
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: March 22, 2018
Festivals & Awards
The Best Performances of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Festivals & Awards
The Shape of Water Tops 2018 Oscar Nominees
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2018: Wildlife
Festivals & Awards
Time’s Up: A Report From the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards
Features
The Ten Best Films of 2017
Far Flungers
Why I Stopped Watching Woody Allen Movies
Chaz's Journal
The Fall of Toxic Masculinity and the Rise of Feminine Consciousness
Festivals & Awards
Hitting the Mother Lode: The Oscar Race Embraces Its Maternal Side
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2017 Preview: 20 World Premieres We Can’t Wait to See
Features
David Lowery and the Cinema of Narrative Displacement
Festivals & Awards
2017 Chicago Critics Film Festival Preview
Chaz's Journal
Illuminating Insight: Ann Hornaday on “Talking Pictures”
Features
Thumbnails 3/3/17
Festivals & Awards
“Moonlight,” “La La Land” Win Big at Academy Awards
Interviews
Video Interview: Casey Affleck and Kenneth Lonergan on “Manchester by the Sea”
Festivals & Awards
If We Picked the Winners 2017: Best Actor
Festivals & Awards
Predictions for the 89th Academy Awards
Festivals & Awards
If We Picked the Winners 2017
Features
Thumbnails 2/9/17
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2017: Five Under-the-Radar Movies From This Year’s Fest
Interviews
A Shared Love of Film: Brandon Collins and Justin Brown on “Medium Popcorn”
Interviews
Interview: Michael Phillips, Recipient of the 2017 Roger Ebert Award
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2017: “A Ghost Story”
Festivals & Awards
2017 Sundance Film Festival Preview
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: January 19, 2017
Festivals & Awards
2017 Golden Globes: A “La La Land” Landslide
Festivals & Awards
Preview of the 2017 Golden Globes
Features
Non-Stop Action, Festival Favorites and More: A Winter 2017 Film Preview
Festivals & Awards
Alliance of Women Film Journalists Announce 2016 EDA Winners
Festivals & Awards
Chicago Film Critics Awards Celebrate “Moonlight,” “Manchester by the Sea,” “The Handmaiden”
Features
The Ten Best Films of 2016
Interviews
Breakout Talent: Royalty Hightower on “The Fits”
Festivals & Awards
“Moonlight,” “La La Land” and “Manchester by the Sea” Lead 2016 CFCA Nominees
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2017 Announces Competition Titles
Festivals & Awards
Best Picture Contenders Celebrate Art of Epic Intimacy
Chaz's Journal
Lucky 13 Must-See Films of 2016
Interviews
