Robert Townsend Movie Reviews
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Black Writers Week
Uncomfortable Truths: “Set It Off,” “Girl 6,” and “Naked Acts” at 30
June 19, 2026
Features
Highlights of Roger Ebert on Black Filmmakers for Black History Month
February 18, 2026
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide May 2025: Better Man, Black Bag, Mickey 17, More
May 30, 2025
Festivals & Awards
The 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival
May 4, 2025
DVD/Blu-Ray
January 2025 Blu-Ray Guide: “Hundreds of Beavers,” “Smile 2,” “Venom: The Last Dance,” and More
January 31, 2025
Festivals & Awards
XL Film Festival & Summit 2023: Highlights of an Ambitious New Event
August 21, 2023
Festivals & Awards
XL Film Festival Runs August 18-20
July 7, 2023
TV/Streaming
FX’s The Bear Continues to Reach for Greatness
June 20, 2023
Interviews
A True Marriage of Picture and Music: Benjamin Millepied on Carmen
May 4, 2023
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: February 2023
February 21, 2023
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: December 2022
December 27, 2022
Roger Ebert
15 African-American Filmmakers and Roger Ebert’s Birthday Retrospective Reviews
June 17, 2022
Festivals & Awards
TCM Film Festival 2022: Highlights of Getting Back to the Big Screen
May 2, 2022
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2021: The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, Belfast, Colin in Black and White
September 12, 2021
Black Writers Week
Why I Keep Making Movies
June 16, 2021
Tributes
Paul Mooney: 1941-2021
May 20, 2021
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: November 2020
November 17, 2020
TV/Streaming
They’ve Gotta Have Us Charts Black Experience in Cinema
February 4, 2020
Features
John Witherspoon: 1942-2019
October 31, 2019
Features
Breaking Barriers: Goodbye to John Singleton
May 1, 2019
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: March 14, 2019
March 14, 2019
Features
TCM and AAFCA to Present The Black Experience on Film
August 23, 2018
Festivals & Awards
Better Than the Oscars?
November 13, 2017
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest 2017: “To Sleep with Anger,” “Mind/Game: The Unquiet Journey of Chamique Holdsclaw”
May 5, 2017
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest 2017: Table of Contents and Photos
April 24, 2017
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest 2017, Day 2: No Transition Without Representation
April 21, 2017
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest Announces Final Slate of Films for 2017
March 30, 2017
Festivals & Awards
“Hair,” “To Sleep with Anger” and More Set to Screen at Ebertfest 2017
March 23, 2017
Chaz's Journal
Stars, Music, Movies and Compassion Converge: Ebertfest 2017 Preview
February 17, 2017
Festivals & Awards
AFI Fest 2016: Otto Preminger’s “Carmen Jones”
November 23, 2016
Features
Thumbnails 5/31/16
May 31, 2016
Features
Thumbnails 4/30/15
April 30, 2015
Features
Tonight is What It Means To Be Young: “Streets of Fire” at 30
September 30, 2014
Features
Black FIlm and TV Directors in 2013: A Progress Report
December 19, 2013
Roger Ebert
It’s high tide for black new wave
December 19, 2012
Roger Ebert
The Best 10 Movies of 1987
December 19, 2012
Scanners
Black humor: Stepin Fetchit to Richard Pryorto Tyler Perry (Part II)
December 14, 2012
Scanners
The Tropic Thunder publicity stunt boycott
December 14, 2012
Far Flungers
The AFI Class of ’92
December 14, 2012
Interviews
Townsend brings it back home for ‘Heartbeats’
December 14, 2012
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