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The Whole of Ourselves: Tim Blake Nelson and Karan Kendrick on Just Mercy
Matt Fagerholm
Art Makes You Evolve: Stanley Nelson on Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool, Opening Friday, October 4th, at Chicago’s Gene Siskel Film Center
Matt Fagerholm
Bright Wall/Dark Room April 2017: “Flesh & Emptiness, or 42 Ways of Looking at Paul Verhoeven” by Brad Nelson
The Editors
Stanley Nelson to Receive Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award
Matt Fagerholm
Hip-Hop Attitude: Stanley Nelson on “Vanguard of the Revolution”
Sergio Mims
AFI Docs 2015: Stanley Nelson, “Prophet’s Prey,” “Hot Type: 150 Years of The Nation”
Matt Fagerholm
Primal screens: What Nelson Carvajal’s new video essay says about television
Matt Zoller Seitz
Nelson Mandela, 1918–2013
Chaz Ebert
Charles Nelson Reilly, R.I.P.
Jim Emerson
The 20 Best Films of 2025 So Far
The Editors
59th Karlovy Vary Film Festival Announces Official Selection and Juries
Isaac Feldberg
Lookin’s Free: Joe Don Baker (1936-2025)
Scout Tafoya
April 2025 Blu-Ray Guide: “Anora,” “The Brutalist,” “Heart Eyes,” “One of Them Days,” More
Brian Tallerico
Female Filmmakers in Focus: The Films of Euzhan Palcy
Marya E. Gates
What to Watch on Netflix: April 2025
Brian Tallerico
SXSW Film Festival 2025: One More Shot, Mermaid, Sweetness
Matt Zoller Seitz
“Daredevil: Born Again” is an Imperfect Interrogation of Our Current Moment
Cristina Escobar
January 2025 Blu-Ray Guide: “Hundreds of Beavers,” “Smile 2,” “Venom: The Last Dance,” and More
Brian Tallerico
Sundance 2025: Come See Me In The Good Light, Move Ya Body, Deaf President Now!
Marya E. Gates
2025 Sundance Film Festival Announces Ambitious Program
Brian Tallerico
Home Entertainment Guide: November 2024
Brian Tallerico
Black Harvest Film Festival 2024: Black Table, Rising Up at Night, The Weekend, Jimmy
Brandon Towns
Bird on a Wire: Kris Kristofferson (1936-2024)
Walter Chaw
Home Entertainment Guide: September 2024
Brian Tallerico
TIFF 2024: Men of War, Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan & Sara, Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
Brian Tallerico
Home Entertainment Guide: August 2024
Brian Tallerico
There Will be No Questions: The Parallax View, the Ultimate Conspiracy Thriller, Turns 50
Matt Zoller Seitz
The Forrest Gump Soundtrack Hits Different in the Spotify Era
Tim Grierson
Willie Mays: The Greatest to Ever Play
Robert Daniels
You Ready To Be the King?: Fresh Turns 30
Mack Bates
The Brat Pack Movies, Ranked
Tim Grierson
Netflix’s Dead Boy Detectives Is A Spinoff Stuck In Limbo
Clint Worthington
Give a FECK!: Chaz Ebert on Her New Book About Forgiveness, Empathy, Compassion and Kindness
Nell Minow
Berlin Film Festival 2024: Abiding Nowhere, Pepe, No Other Land
Robert Daniels
Short Films in Focus: The 2024 Oscar-Nominated Short Films
Collin Souter
Sundance 2024: Tendaberry, Kneecap, Seeking Mavis Beacon
Robert Daniels
Goodbye to a TV Pioneer: Norman Lear (1922-2023)
Nell Minow
Chaz Ebert Celebrates 25 Years of Ebertfest While Honored at University of Illinois Alumni Awards Gala
The Editors
Bright Wall/Dark Room August 2023: My Money is Still in Your Pocket by Sarah Welch-Larson
The Editors
He Did It All: William Friedkin (1935-2023)
Scout Tafoya
No Moment was Wasted: Highlights at the 2023 Indy Shorts International Film Festival
Matt Fagerholm
The Transformative Power of Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle
Walter Chaw
10 Major Snubs and Surprises from the 2023 Oscar Nominations
Daniel Joyaux
Sundance 2023: Fantastic Machine, Milithusando, The Eternal Memory
Robert Daniels
2023 Sundance Film Festival Announces Competition Films, Premiere Titles, Midnight Selections, and More
Nick Allen
Ebertfest Film Festival 2023 Passes On Sale December 12th
Matt Fagerholm
Netflix’s Blockbuster is a Cute, Forgettable Sitcom
Nick Allen
Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities Boasts a Master’s Standards
Nick Allen
Home Entertainment Guide: June 2022
Brian Tallerico
American Black Film Festival 2022 Begins In-Person Today, June 15th, Through June 19th and Virtually June 20th Through June 30th
Chaz Ebert
Our Favorite Roger Reviews: Lincoln
Roger Ebert
Home Entertainment Guide: March 2022
Brian Tallerico
SXSW 2022 Interview: Director Linda Goldstein Knowlton on Split at the Root
Marya E. Gates
Home Entertainment Guide: December 2021, The Criterion Collection
Brian Tallerico
Book Excerpt: Hollywood Victory: The Movies, Stars, and Stories of World War II by Christian Blauvelt
The Editors
I Believe in Individuals: Barry Gifford and Lili Taylor on Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago
Matt Fagerholm
Criterion’s Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films is the Story of a Cinematic Legend
Robert Daniels
TIFF 2021: A Torontonian’s Take on a Tumultuous TIFF
Jason Gorber
TIFF 2021: The Rescue, Attica, Hold Your Fire
Brian Tallerico
TIFF 2021 Preview: 20 Films We Can’t Wait to See
Brian Tallerico
Out Upon the World’s Stage: Lincoln as History and Tragedy
Michael Guarnieri
Joy: My Memories of Ebertfest
Chaz Ebert
Book Excerpt: Cinemaphagy: On the Psychedelic Classical Form of Tobe Hooper by Scout Tafoya
The Editors
Sundance 2021: President, The Most Beautiful Boy in the World, Flee
Robert Daniels
Leslie Odom Jr., Aldis Hodge, Eli Goree, and Kingsley Ben-Adir on the Brotherhood of One Night in Miami
Robert Daniels
Sundance 2021 Announces Virtual Competition, Premiere, Midnight Titles and More
Nick Allen
How Misery Predicted Toxic Fandom
Matt St. Clair
Change How the Game is Played: On the Power of Labor and the Timeliness of High Flying Bird
Roxana Hadadi
In Honor of Representative John Lewis, The Conscience of Congress: A Thumbnails Special Edition
The Editors
Revisiting My 2017 Article, My Daughter Loves Country Music, In Light of Mickey Guyton’s song, Black Like Me
Chaz Ebert
Sing Along with the Endearing Little Voice
Robert Daniels
Joel Schumacher: 1939-2020
Peter Sobczynski
Upholding Black Voices: An Annotated Table of Contents
The Editors
Celebrating the Risk-Taking Greatness of Disney’s Dinosaur, 20 Years Later
Carlos Aguilar
Max von Sydow: 1929-2020
Roxana Hadadi
When the Worlds of Film Criticism and Acting Collide to Inform and Educate Audiences
Carla Renata
Bright Wall/Dark Room February 2020: Trash, Art, and Book Club: A Toast to Our Aging Icons by Carrie Courogen
The Editors
Ebertfest Film Festival 2020 Passes On Sale November 1st
The Editors
HBO’s Watchmen is Like Nothing Else on Television
Brian Tallerico
Ken Burns’ Country Music Series is Thought-Provoking, Joyful
Allison Shoemaker
Son of the father: Peter Fonda, 1940-2019
Matt Zoller Seitz
Home Entertainment Guide: July 25, 2019
Brian Tallerico
Old Friends Who’ve Just Met: Dave Goelz on The Muppet Movie, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance and Much More
Matt Fagerholm
Preview of the 26th Annual Chicago Underground Film Festival
Nick Allen
A Very Deep Place: Claire Denis on High Life
Matt Fagerholm
90 Minutes On: “A Star is Born” (2018)
Matt Zoller Seitz
MOMA’s To Save and Project Festival: Cane River, Crime Wave, Pharos of Chaos, The Shipwrecker
Vikram Murthi
Sundance 2019: The Report, Official Secrets
Brian Tallerico
The Favourite, Roma Lead 2019 Oscar Nominations
Nick Allen
Roma, Vice, Black Panther Win Big at 24th Critics’ Choice Awards
Sarah Knight Adamson
The Great Performances of 2018
The Editors
Fanfare for a Fighter: The History and Evolution of the Rocky Theme
Charlie Brigden
Glenn Kenny’s Top Ten Films of 2018
Glenn Kenny
Matt Fagerholm’s Top Ten Films of 2018
Matt Fagerholm
Sundance 2019 Announces Competition, Premiere, Midnight Titles and More
Nick Allen
Three Highlights from the 2018 New Orleans Film Festival
Vikram Murthi
Villains Rule in the Third Season of Marvel’s Daredevil
Allison Shoemaker
NYFF 2018: Roma, Her Smell, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, At Eternity’s Gate
Godfrey Cheshire
RIFF 2018: Woman at War, Jonas Mekas Exhibition and Camilla Strøm Henriksen on Phoenix
Matt Fagerholm
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Matt Fagerholm
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