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Sanders Movie Reviews
Blog Posts That Mention Sanders
Tributes
Keep on Dreaming: Reverend Jesse Jackson (1941-2026)
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2026: If I Go Will They Miss Me, Night Nurse, Jaripeo
TV/Streaming
Netflix’s “Leanne” is Predictable Southern Comfort
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide May 2025: Better Man, Black Bag, Mickey 17, More
TV/Streaming
What to Watch on Netflix: May 2025
Features
Book Excerpt: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony & the Life of a Legend by Jason Bailey
Ebertfest
Your Guide to Ebertfest 2025: Day 2, April 24th
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest 2025 Announces Full Schedule, With Guests Including Francis Ford Coppola, Susan Seidelman, Rosanna Arquette, and More
Features
He Never Made the Same Choice Twice: 10 of Our Favorite Gene Hackman Performances
DVD/Blu-Ray
December 2024 Blu-Ray Guide: “The Wild Robot,” “Conclave,” “Alien: Romulus,” More
Features
The Great Craft of 2024
Features
The Great Performances of 2024, Part Two
Chaz's Journal
My Night at the Critics Choice Celebration of Black Cinema and Television
Features
Two Thumbs Up! The Individual Top Tens of 2024
Interviews
A Communication With Light: Azazel Jacobs on “His Three Daughters”
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2024: 20 World Premieres We Can’t Wait to See
Tributes
“This Is The Life, Isn’t It?” Martin Mull: 1943-2024
Features
Criterion Celebrates the Films That Forever Shifted Our Perception of Kristen Stewart
Features
The 10 Best Movies Made for Under $50,000
Features
With Analyze This, Robert De Niro Finally Decided to Become the King of Comedy
Features
A Report from the Color Purple Special Screening with Oprah Winfrey
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Meg Ryan on What Happens Later
Interviews
The Power of Community: Steve Cohen and Paula Froehle on the Chicago Media Project’s A Decade of Docs Fundraiser on October 28th
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: June 2023
Festivals & Awards
Cinema Femme Short Film Festival to Have First In-Person Screenings at the Music Box Theatre
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: January 2023
Tributes
Chaz Ebert Remembers Her Late Grandson, Joseph London Smith
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2022: Emily, Causeway, The Eternal Daughter
Festivals & Awards
SDCC 2022: When Science Meets Geekdom
Interviews
Walking a Tightrope: Quinn Shephard on Not Okay
TV/Streaming
Mike Myers Attempts Comeback with Inconsistent The Pentaverate on Netflix
Chaz's Journal
Five Articles In Praise of Rebecca Hall’s Directorial Debut, Passing
Interviews
That Space Between Awake and Asleep: Rebekah Del Rio on the Twentieth Anniversary of Mulholland Dr.
Black Writers Week
Meet the Writers of Black Writers Week 2021
Black Writers Week
Profiles in Courage: Kahil El’Zabar
Chaz's Journal
Upholding Black Voices: An Annotated Table of Contents
Tributes
Jerry Stiller: 1927-2020
TV/Streaming
Epix’s Belgravia Breaks Societal Barriers to Enormously Satisfying Effect
TV/Streaming
All the Major Titles Dropping Early on VOD Because of COVID-19
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest Announces Kathryn Bostic and the Opening and Closing Night Films for 2020 Festival
Chaz's Journal
Chaz Ebert’s Top 10 Films (And Then Some) of 2019
Features
The Best Films of the 2010s: Moonlight
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2019: Oh Mercy!, Sibyl, Saturday Fiction, The Irishman
Festivals & Awards
Telluride 2019: Kitty Green on Her Pre-#MeToo Thriller, The Assistant
Features
Toni Morrison: 1931-2019
Interviews
One from the Heart: Jimmie Fails and Joe Talbot on The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Interviews
Kathryn Bostic on Being the First African-American Female Composer to Join the Academy
Festivals & Awards
The Best Performances of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2019: Suzan-Lori Parks on Adapting Native Son
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2019: The Farewell, Honey Boy, Native Son
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2019: 20 Films We Can’t Wait to See in Park City
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2019 Announces Competition, Premiere, Midnight Titles and More
Features
Thumbnails 8/28/18
Features
Thumbnails 5/22/18
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest 2018 Guests: Part II
Interviews
The RogerEbert.com Interviews of 2017
Features
Thumbnails Special Edition: Is Our President the Predator-in-Chief?
Interviews
The Holy Vow: Margaret Betts on “Novitiate”
Features
Tom Petty: 1950-2017
Festivals & Awards
The Big Knockover: “Noir City: Chicago” Brings Heist Films to the Music Box Theater
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: July 27, 2017
Festivals & Awards
Hot Docs 2017: “Playing God,” “Bring the Jews Home,” “Bill Nye: Science Guy,” “PACmen”
Features
Mannequins: On the Power of the Original “Ghost in the Shell”
Features
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Meets in Chicago to Think & Talk Screens
Festivals & Awards
If We Picked the Winners 2017: Best Picture
Festivals & Awards
If We Picked the Winners 2017: Best Director
TV/Streaming
“The Obama Years: The Power of Words” Honors Previous President’s Eloquence
Festivals & Awards
Alliance of Women Film Journalists Announce 2016 EDA Winners
Festivals & Awards
Chicago Film Critics Awards Celebrate “Moonlight,” “Manchester by the Sea,” “The Handmaiden”
Features
The Ten Best Films of 2016
Festivals & Awards
“Moonlight,” “La La Land” and “Manchester by the Sea” Lead 2016 CFCA Nominees
Festivals & Awards
New Voices: Ebert Young Writers Program for the Arts Covers HIFF 2016
Chaz's Journal
Lucky 13 Must-See Films of 2016
Features
Thumbnails 10/31/16
Interviews
Let’s Me And You Go For A Ride: John McNaughton and Michael Rooker on “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer” at 30
Features
The Political Idealism of Gary Ross
Festivals & Awards
AFI Docs 2016 Opens with Alex Gibney’s “Zero Days”
TV/Streaming
CBS’s “Braindead” Wastes Talented Cast with Flat Execution
Festivals & Awards
An Overview of the 18th Annual Ebertfest
Features
Thumbnails 3/4/16
MZS
A difficult friend: Ed Copeland, AKA Scott Schuldt, 1969-2015
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2015: “The Martian”
Festivals & Awards
In a Lonely Place: “Noir City 7” Starts in Chicago
Features
Short Films in Focus: “Adelaide”
Chaz's Journal
Chaz and Roger to be Honored at Black Harvest Film Festival
Interviews
Tishuan Scott and Ashton Sanders on “The Retrieval”
Features
Thumbnails 4/3/14
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