John Cassavetes Movie Reviews
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Festivals & Awards
Karlovy Vary Announces 2026 Award Winners
June 23, 2026
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide February 2026: “Predator: Badlands,” “Song Song Blue,” “A Little Prayer,” More
February 27, 2026
Festivals & Awards
“Train Dreams” Wins Big at the 2026 Independent Spirit Awards
February 16, 2026
Features
The Golden Boy: 11 of Our Favorite Robert Redford Performances
September 18, 2025
Tributes
Light the Fuse: Lalo Schifrin (1932-2025)
June 30, 2025
Features
Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee
June 19, 2025
Interviews
Humanizing the Sharks: Sean Byrne on “Dangerous Animals”
June 3, 2025
Features
From Gena to Annette: Great Actresses with Oscar Nominations but No Wins
March 3, 2025
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2025: Mad Bills to Pay, Rains Over Babel, Serious People
January 30, 2025
Tributes
The Most Vital Actress of Her Generation: A Goodbye to Gena Rowlands
August 19, 2024
Tributes
A Woman Without Peers: Gena Rowlands (1930-2024)
August 16, 2024
MZS
He’s Got Something Going On: David Proval on Mean Streets, and Acting for Martin Scorsese
April 22, 2024
MZS
A Man Goes to the Movies: An Appreciation of Roger Ebert’s Top 10 Lists
April 4, 2024
Features
The 10 Best Movies Made for Under $50,000
March 25, 2024
Features
Along for the Ride with Sofia Coppola
March 6, 2024
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Erige Sehiri on Under the Fig Trees
February 6, 2024
Features
Streetcorner Symphony: The Music of Mean Streets
November 1, 2023
Interviews
Empathy Comes With Maturity: Ira Sachs on Passages
August 14, 2023
Tributes
He Did It All: William Friedkin (1935-2023)
August 8, 2023
Festivals & Awards
KVIFF 2023: Wrap-Up and Awards
July 9, 2023
Features
Book Excerpt: In the Time of Kiarostami: Writings on Iranian Cinema by Godfrey Cheshire
January 12, 2023
Features
Jesus, I Love to Shoot Film: The Siskel Film Center Pays Tribute to Haskell Wexler
May 2, 2022
Far Flungers
It Feels Like a Horror Movie: On Trey Edward Shults’ Krisha
April 10, 2022
Features
Death Game: A Grindhouse Classic Returns to Theaters
April 4, 2022
Festivals & Awards
The 2022 Film Independent Spirit Awards Honored Acclaimed Films Overlooked by the Academy
March 7, 2022
Features
The Damned: The Films of Elaine May
January 16, 2022
Tributes
Dignified Defiance: Sidney Poitier (1927-2022)
January 7, 2022
Features
Janus-Faced: The Two Tony Sopranos
October 6, 2021
TV/Streaming
Criterion’s Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films is the Story of a Cinematic Legend
September 28, 2021
Tributes
Ahead of His Time: Melvin Van Peebles (1932-2021)
September 23, 2021
Chaz's Journal
FACETS Reopening on September 17th with Anne at 13,000 Ft.
September 16, 2021
Festivals & Awards
Nomadland, I May Destroy You Take Top Honors at 2021 Film Independent Spirit Awards
April 23, 2021
Interviews
Being Human Is Heroic: Melora Walters on Waterlily Jaguar, Drowning, Magnolia and More
December 7, 2020
Interviews
The Illusionary Quality of a Dream: Stella Hopkins on Her Directorial Debut, Elyse
December 5, 2020
MZS
The Unloved, Part 83: Resident Evil: Retribution
November 2, 2020
Features
Book Excerpt: The Press Gang by Godfrey Cheshire, Matt Zoller Seitz, Armond White
August 24, 2020
Interviews
Owning Your Faults: Kris Rey and Gillian Jacobs on I Used to Go Here
July 31, 2020
Features
Music Box Memories: A Legendary Theatre Celebrates 90 Years
August 22, 2019
MZS
Son of the father: Peter Fonda, 1940-2019
August 17, 2019
Features
An Ode to Pedro Almodovar’s All About My Mother on Its 20th Anniversary
June 17, 2019
Festivals & Awards
A Look Back at the 10th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival
April 17, 2019
Features
Seymour Cassel: 1935-2019
April 9, 2019
Features
Thumbnails 2/8/19
February 7, 2019
TV/Streaming
Elaine May’s Mikey & Nicky Ready for Rediscovery on Criterion Blu-ray
January 21, 2019
Features
Matt Fagerholm’s Top Ten Films of 2018
December 10, 2018
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: August 30, 2018
August 30, 2018
Interviews
KVIFF 2018: Caleb Landry Jones and Peter Brunner on To the Night
July 7, 2018
Festivals & Awards
Get Out, Three Billboards Win Big at 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards
March 4, 2018
Features
The Individual Top Tens of 2017
December 13, 2017
Festivals & Awards
“Call Me by Your Name,” “Get Out” and “Good Time” Lead Spirit Award Nominees
November 21, 2017
Features
Much More than “Star Wars”: The Cinema of ’77 Strikes Back at Film Society of Lincoln Center
August 3, 2017
Features
Martin Landau: 1928-2017
July 17, 2017
Features
Emphatic and Abundant Love: The Work of Jonathan Demme
April 27, 2017
Features
A musical soul: Jonathan Demme, 1944-2017
April 27, 2017
Interviews
SXSW 2017: Janicza Bravo on “Lemon”
March 10, 2017
Interviews
A Supreme Artist: Pascal Mérigeau on “Jean Renoir: A Biography”
January 31, 2017
MZS
60 Minutes on: “The Dirty Dozen”
October 2, 2016
Interviews
True to Life: An Interview with Gena Rowlands
July 10, 2016
Festivals & Awards
BAMCinemaFest 2016: “A Woman, A Part”
June 20, 2016
Festivals & Awards
“Spotlight” Sweeps 2016 Film Independent Spirit Awards
February 28, 2016
Interviews
A Living Cinematic Organism: Stephen Cone on “Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party”
January 5, 2016
Interviews
It’s Real: A Few Words with Haskell Wexler
December 27, 2015
Features
RogerEbert.com Writers & Filmmakers Remember Haskell Wexler
December 27, 2015
Far Flungers
FFC: “Another Woman”
December 23, 2015
Features
Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
November 23, 2015
Features
Thumbnails 10/26/15
October 26, 2015
Chaz's Journal
In Praise of Film Critics: Why They Matter More Than Ever
April 13, 2015
TV/Streaming
“The Connection” and “In the Land of the Head Hunters”
April 13, 2015
Festivals & Awards
The Roger Ebert Award to Honor Filmmaker at Indie Spirit Awards
February 17, 2015
Features
Holiday Gift Guide 2014: Boxed Sets and Stellar Releases
December 8, 2014
Features
Witness to a Legend: The Career of Gena Rowlands
November 19, 2014
Features
Cinematic Jazz: The Myth of John Cassavetes
November 3, 2014
Festivals & Awards
Telluride 2014 Comes to a Close with Breathtaking “Birdman”
September 3, 2014
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: August 28, 2014
August 28, 2014
Interviews
Life Imitating Art: Ira Sachs on “Love Is Strange”
August 18, 2014
Features
Menahem Golan: 1929-2014
August 9, 2014
Features
Book Excerpt: Psycho-Sexual: Male Desire in Hitchcock, De Palma, Scorsese, and Friedkin by David Greven
May 15, 2014
TV/Streaming
“Rosemary’s Baby” Never Justifies Its Existence, “Penny Dreadful” Delivers
May 8, 2014
Features
Top Ten Lists of 2013 From Our Contributors
December 30, 2013
Features
Book Excerpt: Roman Polanski: A Retrospective
September 13, 2013
Features
Brian De Palma’s Films, Ranked
August 21, 2013
Features
Thumbnails 8/1/2013
August 1, 2013
Features
100 Great Moments in the Movies
April 9, 2013
Features
Sundance before it was Sundance
April 9, 2013
Roger Ebert
Most obscure film reference of all time?
March 4, 2013
Roger Ebert
Indie Spirits are high for “The Artist”
December 19, 2012
Roger Ebert
‘Precious’ wins as many Indie Spirits as it possibly can
December 19, 2012
Roger Ebert
Mickey Rourke lets his Indie Spirit fly
December 19, 2012
Roger Ebert
The Shaky-Queasy-Utimatum
December 19, 2012
Roger Ebert
Indie Spirit Awards pitch a big tent
December 19, 2012
Roger Ebert
Familiar names top Indie awards
December 19, 2012
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