Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
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Sapphire Movie Reviews
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Festivals & Awards
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Black Harvest Film Festival 2024: Disco Afrika, It Was All a Dream, Dreams Like Paper Boats
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TIFF 2024: Millers in Marriage, Sketch, The Deb
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KVIFF 2024: Wrap-up and Awards
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Book Excerpt: When Women Invented Television by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
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SXSW 2021: Lily Topples the World, Subjects of Desire, The Hunt for Planet B
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Jojo Rabbit Wins Audience Award and Taika Waititi Wins Ebert Director Award at TIFF
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The C-Section in American Movies
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Thumbnails 6/15/17
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Cannes 2015 Panel: “What Does Empathy Look Like on the Big Screen?”
Chaz's Journal
Musings on Sophia Loren
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Variations on the Theme of Filmmaking
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Postcards from Chaz to Roger
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DGA honors Bigelow, Cameron, Daniels, Reitman, Tarantino
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Globes: Up in the Air, Locker, Nine, Avatar, Precious, SOB
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“Hurt Locker” sweeps the field in Chicago Film Critics’ Awards
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“Avatar” wins Golden Globes
Festivals & Awards
La Palme d’Or et la Palme d’ Whiskers
Festivals & Awards
A precious American girl, a Japanese love doll, Iranian rockers, and a Korean vampire
Raven Evans from Cannes
A fake paparazzi, lots of films, funny stories, and I walk the red carpet
Scanners
Precious Moments
Scanners
North by Northwest with fish and vectors
Scanners
Hey, Mr. Fox: Who’s the audience? Who cares?
Scanners
The Avengers & the Amazing “Critic-Proof” Movie
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Irreversible: Will he see it or will he pass?
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Precious Based on the Movie Female Trouble by John Waters
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Babs, Henry and Long Duk Dong:Cleaning up after the Oscars
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What it takes to win the Best Picture Oscar
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Impressions Based on the Hype for the Movie Precious Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
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Quentin Tarantino’s Top 8 for 2009
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What do we mean by the “worst” movies of the year?
Scanners
Why one critic won’t see Avatar: “What, am I a forest animal, unthinkingly hypnotized by shiny objects?”
Far Flungers
The cinema of scarred hearts
Far Flungers
The many kinds of blindness
Roger Ebert
The best films of 2009
Roger Ebert
TIFF #11: A precious winner
Roger Ebert
TIFF #6: Oy vey, such a film you should see
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CIFF 2009: The winners! And our reviews
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TIFF #5: The man who didn’t land
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Cannes #4: What were they thinking of?
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TIFF #3: Some of the films I’ve seen
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TIFF #1: Darwin, Herzog, the Coens and the Antichrist
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Cannes postmortem. Is that the wrong word?
Festivals & Awards
Complete list of Oscar nominations
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CIFF in better form than ever, hosting Chabrol, Wadja, Oliveira…
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A girl named Precious goes from nobody to the toast of Toronto
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Two war films, worlds apart: ‘Avatar,’ ‘Hurt Locker’ lead Oscar noms
Festivals & Awards
Bold and beautiful show their Cannes-do spirit
Interviews
Elizabeth Taylor, a star in a category of her own, dies at 79
Interviews
For Gabourey Sidibe, ‘Precious’ is a fantasy come to life
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