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Sidney Movie Reviews
Blog Posts That Mention Sidney
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Julia Hart on “Don’t Say Good Luck”
TV/Streaming
Netflix’s “Ransom Canyon” Turns Up the Soapy Drama in Serviceable Second Season
Interviews
He’s Just That Guy: Jeffrey Wright on “Basquiat”
Interviews
The Element of Risk: Olivia Wilde on “The Invite”
Black Writers Week
What is the State of the Black Movie Star?
Features
The 20 Best Films of 2026 So Far
Tributes
A True American Original: Ted Turner (1938-2026)
Festivals & Awards
Why Ryan Coogler Should Win Best Director for “Sinners”
Women Writers Week
How “The Testament of Ann Lee” Subverts Cinema’s Lineage of Cult Leaders
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide February 2026: “Predator: Badlands,” “Song Song Blue,” “A Little Prayer,” More
Features
Highlights of Roger Ebert on Black Filmmakers for Black History Month
Tributes
Something Lasting and Unforgettable: Robert Duvall (1931-2026)
Features
The Golden Boy: 11 of Our Favorite Robert Redford Performances
Festivals & Awards
Locarno Film Festival 2025: 14 Films Commemorating Postwar Britain
Features
The Unloved, Part 140: Wild Card
Tributes
Life is Like a Piano: Tom Lehrer (1928-2025)
Festivals & Awards
Fantasia 2025: The Serpent’s Skin, The Well, Sweetness
DVD/Blu-Ray
June 2025 Blu-Ray/Streaming Guide: “Drop,” “The Nice Guys,” “Dark City,” More
Features
Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee
Black Writers Week
50 Years Later, Cooley High Is Still Alive
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide May 2025: Better Man, Black Bag, Mickey 17, More
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2025: Second Takes on a Few Fest Darlings
Festivals & Awards
SXSW Film Festival 2025: One More Shot, Mermaid, Sweetness
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide: November 2024
Tributes
Nothing Left to Prove: Quincy Jones (1933-2024)
Tributes
Donald Sutherland: The Consummate Character Actor
Black Writers Week
Marvel’s Black Villain Era
Black Writers Week
Hollywood Continues to Fail Its Black Final Girls
Black Writers Week
Catching a Blackfamous White Whale on Broadway: Purlie Victorious Comes Home
Black Writers Week
Robert Daniels & Odie Henderson Talk Wild Wild West at 25
Features
How Cold War Thrillers Expressed Presidential Campaign Concerns
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: May 2024
Tributes
O.J. Simpson Dies: The Rise & Fall of A Superstar
Tributes
A Poet of an Actor: Louis Gossett, Jr. (1936-2024)
Tributes
I Need Your Magic: M. Emmett Walsh (1935-2024)
Festivals & Awards
SXSW 2024: Omni Loop, Desert Road, Things Will Be Different
Chaz's Journal
Welcome to Chicago, Michał Oleszczyk!
MZS
All That Kong: When Bob Fosse Wanted to Make a King Kong Movie
MZS
The Throwaway Scene That Gives Blazing Saddles Its Warm Heart
Tributes
“He Stood on a Firm Piece of Earth”: John Patrick Shanley on Moonstruck director Norman Jewison
Tributes
A Final Goodbye: Tributes to Some of the People We Lost in 2023
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Meg Ryan on What Happens Later
Tributes
A Goodbye to Shaft, Hollywood’s First ‘Bad’ Black Man: Richard Roundtree (1942-2023)
Features
Hollywood & The March on Washington: When Fame Overcame Fear
Far Flungers
Revisiting Sidney Lumet’s The Verdict
Tributes
He Did It All: William Friedkin (1935-2023)
Black Writers Week
Bijan Bayne on His New Book, Black Trailblazers: 30 Courageous Visionaries Who Broke Boundaries, Made a Difference, and Paved the Way
Black Writers Week
Meet the Writers of Black Writers Week 2023
Tributes
Prince of the Cinema: Treat Williams (1951-2023)
Black Writers Week
Black Writers Week 2023: Table of Contents
Tributes
Cinema’s Man of Steel: Jim Brown (1936-2023)
Tributes
A Piece of His Fire: Harry Belafonte (1927-2023)
Festivals & Awards
SXSW 2023: Only the Good Survive, The Wrath of Becky, It Lives Inside
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2023: Fantastic Machine, Milithusando, The Eternal Memory
Festivals & Awards
23rd Annual Black Reel Awards to Celebrate its 2023 Honorees on February 6th
Festivals & Awards
14th Annual African American Film Critics Association Awards Recipients Revealed
Tributes
Twenty Movie Legends We Lost in 2022
TV/Streaming
The 25 Best TV Series of 2022
Interviews
Moths to the Flame: Damien Chazelle on Babylon
Features
The Individual Top Tens of 2022
Features
The Ten Best Films of 2022
Chaz's Journal
Happy 2023 from Chaz Ebert and All of Us at RogerEbert.com!
TV/Streaming
Despite Terrific Performances, The Crown is Getting Wobbly
Festivals & Awards
Preview of the 58th Chicago International Film Festival
Tributes
Goodbye to a Chicago Legend: Sergio Mims (1955-2022)
Festivals & Awards
Two Days Left to Participate in Screen Gems 2022 Online Auction
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2022: Table of Contents
Festivals & Awards
20 Films We Can’t Wait to See in Toronto
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: August 2022
Tributes
A Disappearing Act: David Warner (1941-2022)
Interviews
We’re Only as Good as Our Generation: Ethan Hawke on The Last Movie Stars
Festivals & Awards
Fantasia 2022: Coupez!, Hard Boiled, Cavalcade of Perversions: A Regular Little Orgy
Festivals & Awards
A Look Back at Tribeca 2022: The Narrative Features
Black Writers Week
Considering Easy To Get: World War II Army Training Films, Segregation, Black Uplift and VD
Tributes
The American Dream, Period: Philip Baker Hall (1931-2022)
Festivals & Awards
Mr. Soul! Wins 2022 Peabody Award
Features
Jesus, I Love to Shoot Film: The Siskel Film Center Pays Tribute to Haskell Wexler
Festivals & Awards
TCM Film Festival 2022: Highlights of Getting Back to the Big Screen
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest 2022 Announces Complete Lineup, Will Be Dedicated to Sidney Poitier and Gilbert Gottfried
Festivals & Awards
King Richard and The Harder They Fall Take Top Honors at the 2022 AAFCA Awards
Festivals & Awards
The 22nd Black Reel Awards Honors its Winners, Led by The Harder They Fall
Features
Chaz Ebert to Receive the Ruby Dee Humanitarian Award
Chaz's Journal
Happy 100th Birthday to Haskell Wexler!
Festivals & Awards
Bring the Governors Awards Back to the Oscars
Festivals & Awards
Winners Announced for the 13th Annual AAFCA Awards
Features
Sidney Poitier and the Slap That Shook the World
Tributes
Dignified Defiance: Sidney Poitier (1927-2022)
Tributes
The Connection to Old Hollywood: Peter Bogdanovich (1939-2022)
Features
24 Great Performances of 2021
Festivals & Awards
Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala on January 6th, 2022 Has Been Cancelled
Chaz's Journal
Cheryl Boone Isaacs and Cameron Bailey’s New Roles in the Film Industry
Interviews
Choreography on the Court: Saniyya Sidney and Demi Singleton on King Richard
Tributes
The Mystery Was the Point: On the Life of Dean Stockwell (1936-2021)
Festivals & Awards
An Inside Look: Mr. Soul! to Stream Live Sunday, October 17th
Festivals & Awards
57th Chicago International Film Festival Announces Full Schedule; Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch to Open
Festivals & Awards
Telluride Film Festival 2021: The Lost Daughter, King Richard, Nuclear Family
Chaz's Journal
Melissa Haizlip’s Mr. Soul! to Premiere on HBO Max on August 22nd
Features
I’m a Sound Man: Brian De Palma’s Blow Out at 40
Tributes
Ned Beatty: 1937-2021
Tributes
