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Barry Jenkins
Barry Jenkins
Barry Jenkins Movie Reviews
Blog Posts That Mention Barry Jenkins
Festivals & Awards
Why Ryan Coogler Should Win Best Director for “Sinners”
Features
Highlights of Roger Ebert on Black Filmmakers for Black History Month
Features
Chaz Ebert’s 30 Best Movies of 2025 (and One Guilty Pleasure)
Festivals & Awards
Sundance Film Festival Announces 2026 Line-Up
Features
Criterion Mobile Closet Steered Through Chicago International Film Festival Amid An Intense Political Weekend
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2025: Christy, Couture, Steal Away
MZS
Moviehouse on the Edge: IFC Center Picks 20 Films to Commemorate 20 Years in New York
Interviews
Friendship Is Insane: Eva Victor on “Sorry, Baby”
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide May 2025: Better Man, Black Bag, Mickey 17, More
DVD/Blu-Ray
March 2025 Blu-Ray Guide: “Babygirl,” “Sing Sing,” “Den of Thieves 2,” “Moana 2”
Interviews
Finding a Way Home: André Holland Never Rests
Festivals & Awards
If We Picked the Winners: The 97th Academy Awards
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2025: 2000 Meters from Andriivka, Cutting Through Rocks, Khartoum
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2025: Twinless, Ricky, Jimpa
Interviews
Process the Environment: Rachel Morrison on “The Fire Inside”
Festivals & Awards
2025 Sundance Film Festival Announces Ambitious Program
Festivals & Awards
Black Harvest Film Festival 2024 Preview
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Hannah Peterson on “The Graduates”
Festivals & Awards
André Holland Talks Deleted Scenes from “42”
Interviews
30 Years of “Hoop Dreams”: Steve James on Roger Ebert, Oscar Snubs, and Documentary Filmmaking
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2024: Bonjour Tristesse, The Fire Inside, The Last Showgirl
Interviews
Fight or Flight: Jeremy Saulnier on Rebel Ridge
Festivals & Awards
Telluride Film Festival 2024: Memories for a Lifetime
Features
Book Excerpt: A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda by Carrie Rickey
Interviews
Time to Bloom: KiKi Layne on Dandelion
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: June 2024
Black Writers Week
The Growing Exploration of Masculinity and Vulnerability in Media
Black Writers Week
Black Writers Week 2024: Table of Contents
Interviews
It’s Physical Work: Barry Jenkins on The Underground Railroad
Black Writers Week
Introduction to Black Writers Week 2024
Festivals & Awards
The Red Carpets of the 2024 Chicago Critics Film Festival
Features
The 10 Best Movies Made for Under $50,000
Chaz's Journal
Celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of Our Managing Editor Brian Tallerico at RogerEbert.com
TV/Streaming
Genius: MLK/X Fails Legacies of Civil Rights Leaders
Chaz's Journal
Seasons Greetings from Chaz Ebert and All of Us at RogerEbert.com
Features
The Ten Best Films of 2023
Chaz's Journal
Welcome Robert Daniels, Our New Associate Editor of RogerEbert.com
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2023 Video: Festival Highlights Including Spike Lee Receiving the TIFF Ebert Director Award
Festivals & Awards
Oscar-winner Spike Lee to Receive the 2023 TIFF Ebert Director Award on Sunday, September 10th
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: June 2023
Festivals & Awards
Chicago Critics Film Festival 2023 Preview: Chicago Premieres of Acclaimed Films from Around the World
Festivals & Awards
The Stars Shine at the 2023 Critics Choice Awards
TV/Streaming
Awkward, Misguided Kindred Lets Down Its Source Material
Festivals & Awards
2023 Sundance Film Festival Announces Competition Films, Premiere Titles, Midnight Selections, and More
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Sarah Polley on Women Talking
Interviews
Writing Inside Out: Charlotte Wells on Aftersun
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2022: Brother, Butcher’s Crossing, The Lost King
Festivals & Awards
Telluride Film Festival 2022 Highlights
Festivals & Awards
KVIFF 2022: Aftersun, F*cking Bornholm, Ramona
Black Writers Week
The Legacy of Gen-X Black Filmmakers
Roger Ebert
15 African-American Filmmakers and Roger Ebert’s Birthday Retrospective Reviews
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2022: Holy Spider, Forever Young, Aftersun
TV/Streaming
Outer Range Challenges Expectations While it Entertains
Interviews
Creative Expression: Theodore Witcher on the Legacy of Love Jones
Festivals & Awards
NAACP Image Awards Honors 2022 Winners, Led By The Harder They Fall
Features
Chaz Ebert to Receive the Ruby Dee Humanitarian Award
Chaz's Journal
Happy New Year from Chaz Ebert and RogerEbert.com!
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: December 2021, The Criterion Collection
TV/Streaming
The Best Television of 2021
Festivals & Awards
Critics Choice Awards Celebration of Black Cinema & Television to Honor Will Smith, Ruth Negga and More on December 6th
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: October 2021
Festivals & Awards
Telluride Film Festival 2021: The Lost Daughter, King Richard, Nuclear Family
Festivals & Awards
Telluride Film Festival Announces Full 2021 Program Lineup
Festivals & Awards
AAFCA TV Honors 2021 to Stream This Saturday, August 28th
Black Writers Week
Look Away, Look Away
Black Writers Week
Black Writers Week 2021: Table of Contents
Interviews
I Will Not Forget You: Barry Jenkins on The Underground Railroad
Festivals & Awards
Why Representation Won’t Bring Change to the Oscars
Festivals & Awards
Spike Lee Receives American Cinematheque Award
Festivals & Awards
The 2020 Frontrunners for Best Director
Features
Cinema of Herself: On Four Short Films by Haaniyah Angus
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: October 2020
Tributes
Goodbye to a King: On the Death of Chadwick Boseman
Chaz's Journal
Upholding Black Voices: An Annotated Table of Contents
TV/Streaming
Diverse Cast Shines in Topical Starz Drama Hightown
Features
Early Shorts by Great Filmmakers Pt 2: Jenkins, Wang, Waititi, Diop
Features
No Solutions: A Personal Examination of Online Anger About Guns Akimbo
Festivals & Awards
The Best Films of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival
TV/Streaming
They’ve Gotta Have Us Charts Black Experience in Cinema
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2020: Charm City Kings, Save Yourselves!, Blast Beat
Far Flungers
A Letter to Roger About Michael Apted’s 63 Up
Features
The Best Scores of the Decade
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2020 Announces Competition, Midnight, Premiere Titles and More
Features
The Best Films of the 2010s: Moonlight
Features
The Best Films of the 2010s
Festivals & Awards
Taika Waititi to be Honored with the Ebert Director Award at TIFF Tribute Gala
Chaz's Journal
Happy One Year Anniversary to Our First Female Editor, Nell Minow
Interviews
One from the Heart: Jimmie Fails and Joe Talbot on The Last Black Man in San Francisco
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: March 28, 2019
Chaz's Journal
How the Image of Black Women Has (and Hasn’t) Changed in the Last Two Decades
Festivals & Awards
The Right Side of History: Backstage at the 91st Academy Awards
Festivals & Awards
2019 Oscar Winners Include Green Book, Rami Malek, Olivia Colman, Ruth Carter, Spike Lee
Features
If Beale Street Could Talk – A Spiritual Successor to The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Festivals & Awards
MOMA’s To Save and Project Festival: Cane River, Crime Wave, Pharos of Chaos, The Shipwrecker
Festivals & Awards
