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Friedman Movie Reviews
Blog Posts That Mention Friedman
Interviews
The Honor of an Absolute Lifetime: Rod Lurie on “Lucky Strike”
Interviews
A Wall of Laughter: Edie Baskin on Photographing the First 25 Years of Saturday Night Live
Short Films in Focus
Short Films in Focus: Margie Soudek’s Salt and Pepper Shakers
Festivals & Awards
The Florida Film Festival: An Oasis for Creative Souls
Features
The Best Legal and Courtroom Dramas
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest Film Festival Over the Years
Tributes
Broadway Legend: Chita Rivera (1933-2024)
TV/Streaming
Apple TV+’s Foundation Returns with Bloated War of the Worlds
Festivals & Awards
A Look Back at Tribeca 2023
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest 2023 Recap: A Photo Journal
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest 2023: Frank Oz and Derek DelGaudio Screen In & Of Itself, Rita Coburn Spotlights Marian Anderson and More!
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest 2023 Announces Full Lineup Including Guests Lawrence Bender, Mykelti Williamson, Michael Morris and More
TV/Streaming
HBO’s Succession Pulls No Punches in Final Season
Festivals & Awards
2023 Sundance Film Festival Announces Competition Films, Premiere Titles, Midnight Selections, and More
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: December 2021, Special Editions
TV/Streaming
Apple TV+’s Foundation is An Ambitious, Sprawling Sci-Fi Event
Chaz's Journal
Reprint of Thumb and Thumber: Celebrating Twenty Years of Siskel & Ebert
Features
Send It Back: How Roadrunner Fails Anthony Bourdain
Festivals & Awards
Oscar Predictions 2021
TV/Streaming
Netflix’s Firefly Lane Will Keep Viewers Watching Despite Its Flaws
Features
Thumbnails 9/23/19
Festivals & Awards
2019 Oscar Winners Include Green Book, Rami Malek, Olivia Colman, Ruth Carter, Spike Lee
Features
Short Films in Focus: The 2019 Oscar-Nominated Short Films
Festivals & Awards
The Favourite, Roma Lead 2019 Oscar Nominations
TV/Streaming
HBO’s Succession Audits Dysfunctional Family
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: May 12, 2017
Features
Short Films in Focus: “Bacon & God’s Wrath”
TV/Streaming
NBC Strains to Turn “Emerald City” Into a “Game of Thrones” Clone
Features
Herschell Gordon Lewis: 1929-2016
Chaz's Journal
The Thinking Molecules of Titan: Table of Contents
Features
Comedy Is Not Pretty: The Parade Of Not-Necessarily-Likable Genius In Kliph Nesteroff’s “The Comedians”
Interviews
The Original Primal Storyteller: Sir Ben Kingsley on “Learning to Drive”
Interviews
Ceilings Roughly 25 Feet High: Jason Schwartzman on “Listen Up Philip”
Features
Thumbnails 10/6/14
TV/Streaming
Blu-ray Consumer Guide: May 2014
Festivals & Awards
From The Duke to The Departed: RogerEbert.com Writers Share Memories of the Academy Awards
Features
Thumbnails 10/16/2013
Chaz's Journal
The Thinking Molecules of Titan: Batch 3 of Four Endings
Chaz's Journal
The Thinking Molecules of Titan: Ending by Diane Friedman
Features
Thumbnails 8/29/2013
Features
Happy birthday, “Blood Feast”: digging into the guts of the very first “splatter” film
Scanners
‘South Park’ Held Hostage: Day 12
Scanners
Why ‘Crash’? Some theories…
Festivals & Awards
Hot Tickets: “Lovelace” and “Before Midnight”
Roger Ebert
Hey, Dude: Jeff Dowd downloads on the Sparo-at-the Yarrow
Roger Ebert
Readers’ choice as funniest movie title ‘Incredibly Strange’
Roger Ebert
The Great Box-Office Scam
Scanners
Is Willy Wonka Wacko Jacko?
Tom Shales At Large
Good Morning, Muppets
Scanners
Fight Club: I Am Jack’s Manic-Depression
Scanners
‘The Da Vinci Code’: Faith in fiction?
Scanners
Fight Club at Ten: A Love Story
Scanners
“What’s bad for GM is good for America!”
Scanners
Moral relativism & “A Mighty Heart” & July 4
Scanners
Family Guy Mocks Sarah Palin’s Son Trig For Having Down Syndrome
Scanners
South Parkers speak out at last
Roger Ebert
Sundance and five Sundance-style movies
Roger Ebert
The gathering storm
Roger Ebert
The best documentaries of 2011
Festivals & Awards
Jury honors works with serious themes, viewers stay course
Interviews
Gregory Peck conveyed courage of his convictions as he bravely tackled challenging roles
Interviews
Windy: Atomic Bubble Gum
Movie Answer Man
Corruption and greed in America
Movie Answer Man
Movie Answer Man (05/05/2002)
Movie Answer Man
Movie Answer Man (07/28/1996)
Movie Answer Man
Movie Answer Man (04/14/1996)
Movie Answer Man
