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It’s Just You and Me Now, Sport: On “Manhunter: The Final Cut”
Festivals & Awards
KVIFF 2026: Rose, Black Money for White Nights, Paris Paris
Festivals & Awards
Tribeca 2026: The Narratives
Black Writers Week
What is the State of the Black Movie Star?
Black Writers Week
Film Criticism’s Crisis in the Letterboxd Era
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2026: Full Phil, Sanguine (Species), Jim Queen
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2026: Everytime, Ben’Imana, Titanic Ocean
Festivals & Awards
This Year’s Ebert Fellows Reflect on the 2026 True/False Film Festival
TV/Streaming
Prime Video’s Lush, Ambitious “The House of the Spirits” Does Right By Isabel Allende’s Masterpiece
Festivals & Awards
At This Year’s Oscars, The Show Must Go On
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2026: When a Witness Recants, Time and Water, Antiheroine
Features
The Archaic Mother’s Embrace: How “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” and “Die My Love” Reframe the Monstrous
Festivals & Awards
2026 Sundance Preview: 20 Films We Can’t Wait to See
Features
Panahi & Kiarostami: Two Masters
Festivals & Awards
Reflections on the 2025 Tailinn Black Nights Film Festival
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide October 2025: “F1,” “Eddington,” “Weapons”
Festivals & Awards
CIFF 2025: The Stranger, Franz, Kontinental ’25
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2025: Late Fame, What Does That Nature Say to You, Barrio Triste
The Unloved
The Unloved, Part 141: Shattered
Festivals & Awards
KVIFF 2025: Awards and Wrap-Up
Short Films in Focus
Short Films in Focus: Q&A with “Living Reality” Director Philip Thompson
Video Games
Explore the World of “Dune: Awakening”
Features
The 20 Best Films of 2025 So Far
Festivals & Awards
Chicago Latino Film Festival 2025: Highlights of a Creative Force
Festivals & Awards
The Ebert Fellows on True/False 2025
Festivals & Awards
SXSW Film Festival 2025: Forge, Slanted, The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick
Features
In “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Women Fight the Darkness—And Are Tempted By It
TV/Streaming
“Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man” Brings Marvel’s Web-Slinger Down to Street Level
Features
The Great Craft of 2024
Chaz's Journal
It’s Time to Give a FECK: Elevating Humanity through Forgiveness, Empathy, Compassion and Kindness (book by Chaz Ebert, with Foreword by Tamron Hall)
Features
The Best Films of 2024
Features
Miyazaki, Howl, and Matters of the Heart
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Coralie Fargeat on “The Substance”
Tributes
A Force For Good: Richard Simmons (1948-2024)
Interviews
Female Filmmakers In Focus: Agnieszka Holland
Interviews
Beautiful and Haunted: Jeff Nichols on The Bikeriders
Black Writers Week
The Shield vs. The Wire
TV/Streaming
House of the Dragon Returns with a Captivating Yet Convoluted Second Season
MZS
Far, Far Away: How to Get People Going to Movies Again
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2024: The Girl with the Needle, Wild Diamond
TV/Streaming
Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar Wastes Its Lavish Potential
Features
The 10 Best Start-of-Summer-Movie-Season Films of the 21st Century
Features
Retrospective: Oscar Micheaux and the Birth of Black Independent Cinema
Features
Tomorrow There Will Be Fine Weather: A Preview of NYC’s Upcoming Hiroshi Shimizu Retrospective
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: April 2024
Features
The True Triumph of Robert Downey Jr.’s Second Act
Tributes
A Man of Many Talents: Carl Weathers (1948-2024)
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2024: Frida, Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza, Luther: Never Too Much
Festivals & Awards
A Preview of the 2024 Iranian Film Festival New York
TV/Streaming
HBO’s True Detective: Night Country is a Haunting, Riveting Return to Form
Features
The List is Life: On the 30th Anniversary of Schindler’s List
Features
The Great Craft of 2023
Features
The Great Performances of 2023
TV/Streaming
The 25 Best TV Series of 2023
Features
How Martin Scorsese Uses Music to Enhance His Visions
Interviews
A Human Face: Christian Friedel on The Zone of Interest
Features
A Farewell and Tribute to Our Senior Editor, Nick Allen
TV/Streaming
As The Crown’s Final Season Begins, the Netflix Hit Slips Fully into Melodrama
Festivals & Awards
Black Harvest Film Festival 2023 Interview: Monica Sorelle on Her Richly Personal Mountains
TV/Streaming
Apple TV+’s The Buccaneers Shakes Up High Society
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room October 2023: Killing Time: 3:10 to Yuma & the Lonesome West by Nicholas Russell
TV/Streaming
FX Delivers a Lackluster Thriller With A Murder at the End of the World
TV/Streaming
Paramount+’s Western Expanse Broadens With the Riveting Lawmen: Bass Reeves
Festivals & Awards
CIFF 2023: Robot Dreams, The Crime is Mine, Limbo
Festivals & Awards
59th Chicago International Film Festival Announces Award-Winners
TV/Streaming
Unexpected Romantic Voyage Continues in Confident Second Season of Our Flag Means Death
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room September 2023: I Used to Float, Now I Just Fall Down by Lindsey Romain
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room August 2023: My Money is Still in Your Pocket by Sarah Welch-Larson
TV/Streaming
The Ranown Westerns Join the Criterion Collection
Black Writers Week
Rise of the Beats: On Hip-Hop and Hollywood
Tributes
The Fire is Gone: Kenneth Anger (1927-2023)
Features
How Catherine Breillat Challenges Expectations of Sex in Modern Cinema
Features
A Preview of the 2023 Rendez-Vous with French Cinema
Festivals & Awards
Berlinale 2023 Highlights, Part One: She Came to Me, Blackberry, The Survival of Kindness
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2023: The Persian Version, Mutt
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: Horror Movie Edition
TV/Streaming
Prime Video’s The Peripheral is a Sci-fi Slog
Features
On The Rise of Taylor Swift, Filmmaker
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room August 2022: Innerspace: When I Look In Your Eye by Frank Falisi
Features
Create the Legend: Erich von Stroheim’s Foolish Wives
Features
Some Idea of Me: On the 10th Anniversary of Ruby Sparks
TV/Streaming
Prime Video’s The Terminal List is an Alpha Male Cry for Help
Roger Ebert
15 African-American Filmmakers and Roger Ebert’s Birthday Retrospective Reviews
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2022: Highlights of the Return of the Legendary Film Festival
Features
Death Game: A Grindhouse Classic Returns to Theaters
Festivals & Awards
