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Cannes 2026: Low Expectations, Death Has No Master, The Station
Tributes
American Badass: Michael Madsen (1957-2025)
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Lookin’s Free: Joe Don Baker (1936-2025)
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I Think Of Them As The Work: Gene Hackman (1930-2025)
Tributes
Bird on a Wire: Kris Kristofferson (1936-2024)
Features
Seven Samurai Continues Its Ride Through Cinema’s Past and Future
Features
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid Ride Again with Criterion’s 50th Anniversary Release
MZS
The Legacy of David Bordwell; or, The Memorial Service as Network Narrative
TV/Streaming
The Ranown Westerns Join the Criterion Collection
Tributes
Only Remember Beautiful Moments: Carlos Saura (1932-2023)
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2022: Return to Seoul, She Said, Exterior Night
Tributes
A Disappearing Act: David Warner (1941-2022)
Tributes
Richard Donner: 1930-2021
Tributes
Monte Hellman: 1932-2021
Features
Book Excerpt: The Press Gang by Godfrey Cheshire, Matt Zoller Seitz, Armond White
Features
Sid Haig: 1939-2019
Features
From Don’t Look Back to Rolling Thunder Revue: The Cinema of Bob Dylan
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Seymour Cassel: 1935-2019
MZS
30 Minutes On: “White Heat”
Features
The World is Yours in Hitman 2
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Nicolas Roeg, 1928-2018
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Red Dead Redemption 2 Weaves History of Western Genre into Gaming Masterpiece
Interviews
The Silence: Paul Schrader on First Reformed
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A New Frontier: Bill Pullman and Jared Moshe on “The Ballad of Lefty Brown”
Features
We Should Be So Lucky: A Tribute to Harry Dean Stanton
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Harry Dean Stanton: 1926-2017
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It’s About Us: The Legacy of “Bonnie and Clyde”
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: July 13, 2017
Features
A True Cinephile Behind the Wheel: On the Films of Edgar Wright
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“It’s Peckinpah-tastic!”: On Edgar Wright’s Feature Debut, “A Fistful of Fingers”
Chaz's Journal
Women Writers Week 2017 Kicks Off March 27th
Features
John Hurt: 1940-2017
MZS
Oliver Stone, Poet of the Id: “The Hand” revisited
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: September 22, 2016
Features
Help Scout Tafoya’s 15th Feature Film “The House of Little Deaths” Win Distribution
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Badass Intensity and Holy Cool: A Warren Oates Retrospective
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Violence is a Very Sad Poetry: The Films of Sam Peckinpah
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Visual Pleasure and Voodoo Demographics: A Reflection on Women and Film (Updated)
Features
Women Writers Week 2016: Table of Contents
Chaz's Journal
Welcome to Women Writers Week
Features
Maureen O’Hara: 1920-2015
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Thumbnails 10/16/15
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Meet the Writers: Matt Zoller Seitz
Chaz's Journal
Who’s Who In Reviews: Matt Zoller Seitz
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Thumbnails 5/18/15
TV/Streaming
Existential Westerns: Criterion Editions of “The Shooting,” “Ride in the Whirlwind”
MZS
Why my video essay about “All that Jazz” is not on the Criterion blu-ray
Features
Thumbnails 9/11/14
Features
An Appreciation of Jay-Z’s ’99 Problems’ on Its Tenth Anniversary
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Blu-ray Consumer Guide: April 2, 2014
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Visual Pleasure and Voodoo Demographics: A Reflection on Women and Film
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Why most modern action films are terrible
Features
Blood on the screen: Violence, movies and Me
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Bonnie & Clark: How a gory gangster picture led to Hollywood’s first superhero blockbuster
Festivals & Awards
Cannes reviews: Politics and troubled family lives in “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints,” “Blue Ruin,” and “Tip Top”
Scanners
Django Unchain my heart (and set me free)
Roger Ebert
DGA hails “Slumdog Millionaire,” Ebert made a lifetime member
Roger Ebert
How to write a screenplay
Roger Ebert
Shake, rattle, and Bourne!
Scanners
101 102 Movies You Must See Before…
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Barry Lyndon and the Cosmic Wager
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Neuro-cinema turns brains to zombie mush!
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The Double-Best of the Year
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The Favoritest Movies (or Everybody Loves Lieblingsfilme)
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TIFF 2007: Robert Zimmerman Bob Dylan Revisited
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How does it feel? Footnote fetishism & “I’m Not There”
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Andrew Sarris, auteurism, and his take on his own legacy
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: Deeper into Kael
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The great movies (almost) nobody voted for
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Greatest Films of All Time: Where’s the funny?
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The reviews are in: Let the Funny Games begin!
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The best greatest movies ever list
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Hurt Locker: Georges Bataille and the visceral cinema of Kathryn Bigelow
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The Huckabees Harangues
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Name That Director!
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jim’s annotated best favorite movies of 2008 part 2
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It Ain’t the Meat (It’s the Motion): Thoughtson movie technique and movie criticism
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Termite booster: Manny Farber 1917-2008
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Where I’m coming from…
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Can a movie ruin a good review?
TV/Streaming
Get the Gringo: Mad Mel demolishes Mexico
TV/Streaming
Billy the Kid, orphan outlaw
Roger Ebert
Who do you read? Good Roger, or Bad Roger?
Festivals & Awards
Toronto #9: Everybody must get cloned
Festivals & Awards
Sundance’s biggest star
Festivals & Awards
Danish filmmaker emerges from `Dark’
Interviews
Coburn said it all with that famous grin
Interviews
Lights, Camera, Reaction !!! It’s Oliver Stone
Interviews
John Cusack Interview for ‘The Grifters’
Interviews
Interview with James Coburn
Interviews
Remembering Steve McQueen
Interviews
L.Q. Jones: The Real Star is the Dog
Interviews
A bottle of scotch with Kris Kristofferson
Interviews
9 Acts in Durango with Peckinpah, Coburn, Kris, Dub and The Duke
Interviews
Sam Peckinpah: “Dying is not fun and games.”
Movie Answer Man
Brüno? A gay stereotype? You gotta be kidding!
Movie Answer Man
Movie Answer Man (03/09/1998)
Movie Answer Man
