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Home Entertainment Guide May 2026: The Bride!, Wuthering Heights, Sentimental Value, More
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A Fond Farewell to Our Critic Monica Castillo
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Criterion Venerates Three Essential Works of ’90s Black Cinema with “John Singleton’s Hood Trilogy”
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If We Picked the Winners: The 98th Academy Awards
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“Train Dreams” Wins Big at the 2026 Independent Spirit Awards
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The Archaic Mother’s Embrace: How “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” and “Die My Love” Reframe the Monstrous
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“Sinners” Sets Record with 16 Oscar Nominations
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2026 Oscar Nominations Predictions in the Major Categories
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Glitz and Glamour: A Report from the 2026 Palm Springs Festival Gala
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“One Battle After Another,” “Hamnet” Win Big at 2026 Golden Globes
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40 Shows We Can’t Wait to Watch in 2026
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Home Entertainment Guide December 2025: “Black Phone 2,” “Bugonia,” “Good Fortune,” More
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Chaz Ebert’s 30 Best Movies of 2025 (and One Guilty Pleasure)
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The 10 Best Horror Films of 2025
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The Great Craft of 2025
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The Great Performances of 2025
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“One Battle After Another” Wins Record Number of Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
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Sundance Film Festival Announces 2026 Line-Up
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“One Battle After Another,” “Sinners” Lead Chicago Film Critics Association Nominees
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The Ten Best Films of 2025
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Some Things You Consume, Some You Experience: Mary Bronstein on “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
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USA’s “The Rainmaker” is a Traditional TV Legal Drama
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Apple TV+, Seth Rogen Continue Hot Streaks with Second Season of “Platonic”
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SDCC 2025: Celebrating ALL the Popular Arts
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Humanizing the Sharks: Sean Byrne on “Dangerous Animals”
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Netflix Unpacks One of Chicago’s Most Infamous Unsolved Mysteries in “Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders”
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Excellent Cast Struggles to Hold Together Plodding “Dept. Q”
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10 Great Performances from Sundance 2025
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Sundance 2025: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, The Thing with Feathers, Rabbit Trap
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Sundance Film Festival 2025 Preview: 20 Films We Can’t Wait to See
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2025 Sundance Film Festival Announces Ambitious Program
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Margo Martindale Anchors the Clever, “Fargo”-esque Tale of “The Sticky”
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Black Harvest Film Festival 2024: Disco Afrika, It Was All a Dream, Dreams Like Paper Boats
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Home Entertainment Guide: August 2024
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Locarno Film Festival 2024: Youth (Hard Times), Transamazonia, Moon
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San Francisco Silent Film Festival Highlights Unearthed Treasures of Film History
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Danny Boyle Explains What Made Cillian Murphy So Special from the Start
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10 Music Documentaries You Should See After The Greatest Night in Pop
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The 25 Best TV Series of 2023
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Home Entertainment Guide: October 2023
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TIFF 2023: Stop Making Sense, In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
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TIFF 2023: Finestkind, Ezra, One Life
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TIFF 2023: 20 World Premieres We Can’t Wait to See
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Female Filmmakers in Focus: Fran Rubel Kuzui on Tokyo Pop
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Apple TV+’s Physical Loses Its Strong Voice in Final Season
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Everything Is Fate: Julian Sands (1958-2023)
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A Gold Mine of Material: George Griffith on From the Head and Twin Peaks: The Return
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Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen’s Apple TV+ Buddy Comedy Platonic is Amiable and Harmless
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Bright Wall/Dark Room March 2023: Something Wild: The Other Half of You by Christian Craig
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Short Films in Focus: The Oscar-Nominated Short Films of 2023
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10 Major Snubs and Surprises from the 2023 Oscar Nominations
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The Great Performances of 2022
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2023 Sundance Film Festival Announces Competition Films, Premiere Titles, Midnight Selections, and More
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A Frequency: Tilda Swinton and Joanna Hogg on The Eternal Daughter
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Bright Wall/Dark Room November 2022: C’mon C’mon: It’s Called a Repair by Ethan Warren
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58th Chicago International Film Festival Reveals Award Winners
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TIFF 2022: The Wonder, Runner, Love Life
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Create the Legend: Erich von Stroheim’s Foolish Wives
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Darkly Comedic This is Going to Hurt is a Feat of Empathetic Entertainment
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Home Entertainment Guide: February 2022
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The Ten Best Films of 2021
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CIFF 2021: Oscar Micheaux—The Superhero of Black Cinema, Punch 9 for Harold Washington, Love Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter
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A Preview of the 57th Chicago International Film Festival
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57th Chicago International Film Festival Announces Full Schedule; Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch to Open
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Cannes 2021: The Souvenir Part II, After Yang, Ahed’s Knee, Lingui
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Apple TV+’s Dark Physical is Definitely Not a Comedy but Still Worth Your Time
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Welcome to Black Writers Week
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HBO’s In Treatment is Back in Session with Uzo Aduba
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Oscar Predictions 2021
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Spike Lee Receives American Cinematheque Award
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Nomadland Wins Big for Chicago Film Critics Association
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Nomadland Leads 2020 Chicago Film Critics Nominations
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The Individual Top Tens of 2020
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The Ten Best Films of 2020
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A Preview of the 56th Chicago International Film Festival
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NYFF 2020: The Human Voice, The Woman Who Ran, French Exit
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Home Entertainment Guide: October 2020
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TIFF Artistic Director Cameron Bailey Reflects On This Year’s Virtual Festival
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TIFF 2020: Pieces of a Woman, I Care a Lot, Summer of ‘85
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Our Writers Highlight Articles to Enjoy on our Newly Redesigned RogerEbert.com: Part II
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Short Films in Focus: Crude Oil
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She-Hulk Smashes Boundaries, Conformity, and Other Things Not Suitable for Empowered Femmes
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We All Came Here to Fall Down: The Ross Brothers on Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
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Amazon Prime’s Addictive Thriller ZeroZeroZero Depicts a Global Drug Deal Gone Wrong
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Epix Presents Slow Dirge to the End of the War of the Worlds
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Hal Hartley on His Film Career, Modernist Influences, and Re-Watching His Work
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The 4-Star Films of 2019
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Russell Hornsby Headlines Mediocre Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector
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Chaz Ebert’s Top 10 Films (And Then Some) of 2019
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Home Entertainment Guide: December 12, 2019
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The Ten Best Films of 2019
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Sundance 2020 Announces Competition, Midnight, Premiere Titles and More
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The Best Films of the 2010s: Mad Max: Fury Road
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Who Tells Our Stories: Gender Progress Behind the Screen is Reflected On It
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Book Excerpt: Tour of Memories: The Creative Process Behind Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir
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Joanna Hogg on The Souvenir, Painting the Structure of a Film in Watercolors and More
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DOC10 2019 Preview: Hail Satan?, One Child Nation and Seven More Highlights
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