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Home Entertainment Guide July 2026: Obsession, The Drama, Is God Is, More
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Home Entertainment Guide June 2026: Hoppers, Crime 101, The Mastermind, More
Black Writers Week
Apple TV’s “Sugar” Reaches for the Stars in Grounded, Moving Second Season
TV/Streaming
The 25 Best TV Shows of 2025
Festivals & Awards
CIFF 2025: The Stranger, Franz, Kontinental ’25
Interviews
It’s A Process: Kelly Reichardt on “The Mastermind” and Josh O’Connor’s Timeless Mug
Interviews
An Ear for Writing For Women: Stan Zimmerman on Golden Girls, Rosanne, Gilmore Girls
Features
The Most Significant Movie Ever Made
Chaz's Journal
LIFE AFTER LIFE: 4 Films at IANDS Conference in Chicago August 27-31
Festivals & Awards
Locarno Film Festival 2025: 14 Films Commemorating Postwar Britain
Festivals & Awards
San Diego Comic-Con 2025: Aliens and Activations
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June 2025 Blu-Ray/Streaming Guide: “Drop,” “The Nice Guys,” “Dark City,” More
Roger Ebert
13 Reviews by Roger Ebert for the 2025 Day4Empathy
Festivals & Awards
SXSW Film Festival 2025: Forge, Slanted, The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick
DVD/Blu-Ray
February 2025 Blu-Ray Guide: “Wicked,” “Nosferatu,” “Here,” “Heretic,” More
Festivals & Awards
Tokyo International Film Festival 2024: Orang Ikan, Missing Child Videotape, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Features
The Tarantino Dozen
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2024: Bonjour Tristesse, The Fire Inside, The Last Showgirl
Festivals & Awards
13 Films Illuminate Locarno Film Festival’s Columbia Pictures Retrospective
Interviews
Jesse Plemons on Being Funny, Stepping Off the Ledge and Making ‘Kinds of Kindness’
TV/Streaming
Presumed Innocent Spins Riveting Mystery on Apple TV+
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2024 Diary 2: International Genre Picks
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2024: Kinds of Kindness; Oh, Canada; Scénarios
Features
How The Phantom Menace Predicted Hollywood’s Prequel Future
MZS
He’s Got Something Going On: David Proval on Mean Streets, and Acting for Martin Scorsese
Festivals & Awards
San Francisco Silent Film Festival Highlights Unearthed Treasures of Film History
Festivals & Awards
SXSW 2024: Dandelion, A Nice Indian Boy, I Don’t Understand You, I Love You Forever
Features
2023: The Year The World Finally Recognized The Brilliance Of Lily Gladstone
Features
Vote for Neuro(diversity): On the 20th Anniversary of Napoleon Dynamite
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: January 2024
Tributes
A Grounding Presence: Andre Braugher (1962-2023)
Chaz's Journal
The Year of Black Men in Cinema: Chaz Ebert’s Top Ten(-ish) Films of 2023
Features
Short Films in Focus: Big Touch
Features
The Pitfalls of Suburban Ennui: In Praise of Todd Haynes and Julianne Moore’s Collaborations
Festivals & Awards
Noir City Returns to the Music Box in Chicago
Interviews
Touched the Fire: Morrisa Maltz & Lily Gladstone on The Unknown Country
Festivals & Awards
A Quiet SDCC Still Finds a Way to Give Fans Unique Experiences
Features
The Best Films of 2023 … So Far
Features
Creatures of the Id: Celebrating Ishirō Honda’s 1968 Masterpiece, Destroy All Monsters
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room April 2023: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed: Friends, Lovers, or Neighbors by Frank Falisi
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Kelly Reichardt on Showing Up
Interviews
I Won’t Know If I’m Coming or Going: Rodrigo García on Nine Lives and His Latest Film, Raymond & Ray
Festivals & Awards
58th Chicago International Film Festival Announces Full Line-Up, Premieres, Special Guests and More
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2022: Table of Contents
Festivals & Awards
20 Films We Can’t Wait to See in Toronto
Festivals & Awards
Fantasia 2022: Country Gold, The Harbinger, Glorious
TV/Streaming
FX on Hulu’s The Old Man is a Bold, Wise Vehicle for Jeff Bridges
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2022: Showing Up, Broker, Close
Interviews
The Space Left on the Screen is For You to Fill: Scott Ryan on Fire Walk With Me: Your Laura Disappeared
TV/Streaming
Netflix’s The Lincoln Lawyer Makes Case for Streaming Success
Interviews
How History Moves Through a Life: Dana Stevens on Buster Keaton
Tributes
A Director Who Had Fun: Lina Wertmüller (1928-2021)
Tributes
You’re In My Heart (The Final Acclaim): Patricia J. Sobczynski, 1941-2021
Interviews
Winning is Easy: Producer Griffin Dunne on the 2006 Hidden Gem, Game 6
TV/Streaming
AMC’s Kevin Can F*** Himself Experiments with Sitcom Form to Mixed Results
Black Writers Week
Second City’s New Executive Producer: The Comedy of Jon Carr
MZS
The Joke’s On Him: Tom Cruise and Eyes Wide Shut
Festivals & Awards
Nomadland Leads 2020 Chicago Film Critics Nominations
Features
The Ten Best Films of 2020
Features
The Dark Side of Harrison Ford: On the Roles That Led to What Lies Beneath
TV/Streaming
Get Lost in Bruce Lee’s Greatest Hits from Criterion
Features
Book Excerpt: Roads to nowhere: Kelly Reichardt’s broken American Dreams
TV/Streaming
Great Cast Holds Together Thin HBO Version of Perry Mason
MZS
30 Minutes on The Manchurian Candidate
Tributes
Fred Willard: 1933-2020
Chaz's Journal
Hate Breeds Hate: Why Adolf Hitler is Wearing a Plains Indian Headdress in Jojo Rabbit
Chaz's Journal
Just in the Minuscule Things That Happen in a Day: Kelly Reichardt on First Cow
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: December 12, 2019
TV/Streaming
Kathryn Hahn Continues Excellent Run with HBO’s Mrs. Fletcher
TV/Streaming
TV Review: New ABC Dramas Rely on Charismatic Ensembles
Far Flungers
A Hitchockian Nightmare: On Alan J. Pakula’s Presumed Innocent
MZS
What’s Next: Marvel, the serials, and the future
Features
Happiness and Artifice: The Performances of Julianne Moore
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest 2019 Reveals Full Line-Up Honoring Scott Wilson, Richard Roeper and Jonathan Demme
TV/Streaming
FX’s Fantastic Better Things Rewires Expectations
MZS
The Big Five-Oh: A Moviegoing Remembrance
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2018: The Slows, In My Room, Sorry Angel, Too Late to Die Young
Festivals & Awards
Out of the Past: Noir City: Chicago is Back for 10th Year
TV/Streaming
Criterion Collection Celebrates Powell & Pressburger’s A Matter of Life and Death
Features
Book Excerpt: It’s Okay With Me: Hollywood, The 1970s, and the Return of the Private Eye by Jason Bailey
TV/Streaming
Criterion Returns King of Jazz to Its Rightful Throne
Festivals & Awards
Minding the Gap, The King, Devil’s Freedom Among Highlights at DOC10 2018
Features
The Journey of a Remarkable Artist: The Career of Gary Oldman
TV/Streaming
Great Cast Can’t Make Awful Here and Now Work
Festivals & Awards
Winners of 2018 Sundance Film Festival Awards Announced
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2018 Announces Competition, Premiere, Midnight Titles and More
Festivals & Awards
CIFF 2017 Preview: 45 Films to See
Chaz's Journal
Hugh Hefner: Memories of a Legend
Festivals & Awards
The Big Knockover: “Noir City: Chicago” Brings Heist Films to the Music Box Theater
Features
Keeping the Elegant End Up: “The Spy Who Loved Me” at 40
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2017: “L’amant double,” “Good Time,” “12 Days”
Features
Powers Boothe: 1948-2017
Features
A musical soul: Jonathan Demme, 1944-2017
Chaz's Journal
“Ghost in the Shell” and Asian-American Outrage on Social Media
MZS
Confusion and carnage: an interview with film critic Adam Nayman about the films of Ben Wheatley
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2017 Announces Premieres, Midnight Films and More
Festivals & Awards
AFI Fest 2016: The First Film Noir Directed by a Woman, Ida Lupino’s “The Hitch-Hiker”
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: November 3, 2016
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