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Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso” Gets Back on the Pitch For a Welcome Season 4
Features
Highlights of Roger Ebert on Black Filmmakers for Black History Month
Features
It’s Stephen King’s World: How the Writer Became the King of Hollywood Again in 2025
Tributes
The 8 Essential Films of Rob Reiner’s Career
Features
Shark Attack: “Jaws” Remains as Entertaining as It Was 50 Years Ago
Features
The 20 Best Films of 2025 So Far
Features
The Idealist’s Journey
Features
Book Excerpt: An Anthony Mann Reader by Scout Tafoya
TV/Streaming
Sony’s “Frank Capra at Columbia” 4K Box Set Encapsulates One of America’s Great Filmmakers
Features
Kevin Costner: The Last of the Cornball American Directors
Festivals & Awards
A Preview of the 2024 Iranian Film Festival New York
Festivals & Awards
Venice Film Festival 2023: Biennale College and Recommended Movies
Festivals & Awards
No Moment was Wasted: Highlights at the 2023 Indy Shorts International Film Festival
TV/Streaming
Ten Christmas Movies You Need to Add to Your Holiday Viewing List
Interviews
I Wanted to Be a Part of This Story: Larry Wilmore and Rainn Wilson on Jerry and Marge Go Large
Features
Scene Stealer: A Tribute to Isabel Jewell
Tributes
Ivan Reitman: 1946-2022
Chaz's Journal
Video: Smithsonian’s History Film Forum Panel on It’s a Wonderful Life featuring Nell Minow
Interviews
A Lucky Film Buff: Leonard Maltin Reflects on His Life
Interviews
That Space Between Awake and Asleep: Rebekah Del Rio on the Twentieth Anniversary of Mulholland Dr.
Interviews
Advocates for Democracy: Barak Goodman and Chris Durrance on the Gerrymandering Documentary Slay the Dragon
Features
What to Watch During a Quarantine
Far Flungers
Not defending the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Features
Music Box Memories: A Legendary Theatre Celebrates 90 Years
TV/Streaming
Veronica Mars Returns to Hulu in Rare Successful TV Reboot
Chaz's Journal
My Favorite Roger: Nell Minow
Interviews
Jonathan Levine on Long Shot, the Physical Comedy of Charlize Theron, Making Seth Rogen a Romantic Lead and More
Interviews
Richard Dreyfuss and Deborah Kolar, Daughter of Robert Shaw, on Jaws
Interviews
Celebrating the Artifice: Laurent Bouzereau on Spielberg, Hitchcock, De Palma and More
MZS
30 Minutes on: “The Hudsucker Proxy”
MZS
A worthy cause: Godfrey Cheshire’s book on Iranian Cinema
Chaz's Journal
Films to Get Us Through The Trump Presidency
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room December 2016: “It’s a Wonderful Life?” by Chad Perman
Features
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Accompanies “It’s a Wonderful Life”
Chaz's Journal
Ebert Archive Remains Essential Reading at Sun-Times
Features
Thumbnails 12/6/16
Features
Thumbnails 11/9/2016
Features
Thumbnails 10/31/16
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2016: “Una,” “Strange Weather,” “LBJ,” “Sing”
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2016: “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail,” “The B-Side”
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2016: Fisher Stevens on “Before the Flood”
Interviews
TIFF 2016 Interview: Steve James on “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail”
Far Flungers
The “Shawshank” Greatness, Part II
Far Flungers
We’ll See Who the Real Tough Guy Is: On “A Bronx Tale”
Chaz's Journal
Roger’s Favorites: Robert Zemeckis
Features
Thumbnails 2/24/16
TV/Streaming
Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later
Features
A Trip Through Film History with Norman Lloyd
Chaz's Journal
Who’s Who In Reviews: Simon Abrams
Features
Unholy Dedication: A History of Jackie Chan’s “Police Story” Franchise
Chaz's Journal
Ebertfest to Welcome Jason Segel, Chazz Palminteri and More
Festivals & Awards
Slamdance 2015
Roger Ebert
Beyond Narrative: The Future of the Feature Film
Features
Thumbnails 12/22/14
Features
All Are Welcome: Religion at the Movies
Features
Short Films in Focus: “Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life”
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: November 20, 2014
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2014, Day One: “The Judge”
Features
Thumbnails 8/7/14
TV/Streaming
Blu-ray Consumer Guide: May 2014
Features
Thumbnails 5/22/2014
Features
Thumbnails 5/1/2014
Festivals & Awards
The Naked, Raw Anger of “Born on Fourth of July” at Ebertfest
TV/Streaming
In Defense of Don Draper: How “Mad Men” Will End
MZS
Mark Harris Talks About His Book “Five Came Back” and the way World War II changed Frank Capra, John Ford, John Huston, George Stevens and William Wyler
MZS
The Unloved, Part 3: The Hudsucker Proxy
Features
Cohen Media Group Brings Classic and Vintage FIlms to a 21st Century Audience
Features
The Twelve Scenes of Christmas: Numbers 4 to 1
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The Twelve Scenes of Christmas: Numbers 8 to 5
Features
Thumbnails 12/9/2013
Far Flungers
Looking Back at “It Happened One Night”
Features
Thumbnails 11/4/2013
Features
Meet the Writers: Simon Abrams
Interviews
Joseph Gordon-Levitt discusses “Don Jon”
Features
“The reason I used that word is because that’s the word they used”: An interview with Ben Urwand, author of “The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler.”
Roger Ebert
Hey, Dude: Jeff Dowd downloads on the Sparo-at-the Yarrow
Roger Ebert
TCM’s 15 most influential films of all time, and 10 from me
Roger Ebert
Now, that’s funny
Roger Ebert
The Best 10 Movies of 1989
Scanners
101 102 Movies You Must See Before…
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Capranomics: Banking on Character
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Short film blog-a-thon
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The Favoritest Movies (or Everybody Loves Lieblingsfilme)
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Armond Joy and the dining room table
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Opening Shots: ‘His Girl Friday’
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Game Change: Not mavericky, but nice
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Bow down to Babs
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The Return of the Autobiographical Dictionary of Film
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Ebertfest photoblog: Day 3
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Wild Things of Oz
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How Not to Write About Film
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Name That Director!
Far Flungers
Happiness is a good father
Far Flungers
Six keys to “Cloud Atlas”
TV/Streaming
With Great Power: Stan Lee, superhero
Festivals & Awards
Outdoor film festival salutes Mickey Mouse, Brando, Grant
Interviews
Peter Bogdanovich on storytelling
Interviews
