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I Am Telling You: Dreamgirls at 20
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From My Block to Wakanda: Movies and Black Travel
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Words Are Also Filters: Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026)
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Home Entertainment Guide May 2026: The Bride!, Wuthering Heights, Sentimental Value, More
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“Dutton Ranch” Keeps the Barn Doors Open for the “Yellowstone” Franchise
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An Essential Showcase in a Difficult Time: Cannes Film Festival 2026 Preview
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Male Directors Can’t Stop Making Movies About Female Pop Stars
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Netflix’s “Big Mistakes” Starts Off Feeling Small but Settles into Its Best Self
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Home Entertainment Guide March 2026: Anaconda, The Housemaid, Killers of the Flower Moon, More
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SXSW 2026: baby/girls, Manhood, Drift
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In Taylor Sheridan’s “The Madison,” Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell Weather an Urban-Rural Romance
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If We Picked the Winners: The 98th Academy Awards
Women Writers Week
Milestones of 1956: Looking Back at Hollywood 70 Years Ago
Women Writers Week
The Artistic Exploration & Wit of Charli xcx
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Christy Lemire Bids a Fond Farewell to RogerEbert.com
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The Belle of Absurdity: Catherine O’Hara (1954-2026)
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Sundance 2026: When a Witness Recants, Time and Water, Antiheroine
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Sundance 2026: Big Girls Don’t Cry, Hold Onto Me, Tell Me Everything
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Lightning in a Bottle: Angus MacLachlan on “A Little Prayer”
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“Sinners” Sets Record with 16 Oscar Nominations
Features
2026 Oscar Nominations Predictions in the Major Categories
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“Sinners,” “Bel-Air” Lead NAACP Image Award Nominees
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Glitz and Glamour: A Report from the 2026 Palm Springs Festival Gala
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“One Battle After Another,” “Hamnet” Win Big at 2026 Golden Globes
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40 Shows We Can’t Wait to Watch in 2026
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40 Movies We Can’t Wait to See in 2026
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Home Entertainment Guide December 2025: “Black Phone 2,” “Bugonia,” “Good Fortune,” More
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The Great Performances of 2025
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“One Battle After Another” Wins Record Number of Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
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Sundance Film Festival Announces 2026 Line-Up
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“One Battle After Another,” “Sinners” Lead Chicago Film Critics Association Nominees
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The Ten Best Films of 2025
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RescueFest Opens with Restoration of Steve Buscemi’s Wonderful “Trees Lounge”
Short Films in Focus
Short Films in Focus: Off the Face of the Earth (with Michael Pantozzi)
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“Landman” Might Be the Dumbest Fracking Show on TV
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NBC Mockumentary Sitcom “Stumble” is a Flipping Good Time
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Hulu’s “Chad Powers” Wastes Talents of Glen Powell
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Fantastic Fest 2025: Mārama, Mother of Flies, Bulk
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Season 3 of “Tulsa King” Features Boomers, Bullets, and Bourbon, Oh My
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TIFF 2025: Table of Contents
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TIFF 2025: Bad Apples, Eternity, Sacrifice
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TIFF 2025: Wasteman, Winter of the Crow, Charlie Harper
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Telluride Film Festival 2025: Lost in the Jungle, Ask E. Jean, Everywhere Man: The Lives and Times of Peter Asher
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Something Wretched This Way Comes in the Second Half of “Wednesday” Season Two
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TIFF 2025: 20 World Premieres We Can’t Wait to See
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Prime Video Prequel Series “The Terminal List: Dark Wolf” Fills In (But Doesn’t Fire) Blanks
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Clear Eyes, Full Heart, Can’t Lose: The Enduring Legacy of “Friday Night Lights”
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Netflix Brings “Wednesday” Back to Nevermore for a Spookier, Stranger Season 2
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Our 10 Most Anticipated Films of the 2025 Fantasia Film Festival
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From “Bosch” to “Ballard”: New Spinoff Tackles LA’s Cold Cases
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Dancing With Death: Mike Flanagan on “The Life of Chuck”
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Home Entertainment Guide May 2025: Better Man, Black Bag, Mickey 17, More
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The Red Carpets of the 2025 Chicago Critics Film Festival
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A True Sense of the Eerie, or Why I Love the Hell House Films
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Netflix’s “Devil May Cry” Adapts Hit Video Game Series with Artistic Flair
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Tom Hardy Carries Promising Double-Episode Premiere of Paramount+’s “MobLand”
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Age Has No Expiration When It Comes to Talent
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SXSW Film Festival 2025: Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, Fantasy Life, Brother Verses Brother
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What to Watch on Netflix: March 2025
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If We Picked the Winners: The 97th Academy Awards
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Movies to Watch if You Love Bad Bunny
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Taylor Sheridan’s “1923” Returns with Same Degree of Self-Proclaimed Grandeur
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10 Great Performances from Sundance 2025
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January 2025 Blu-Ray Guide: “Hundreds of Beavers,” “Smile 2,” “Venom: The Last Dance,” and More
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Sundance: Dead Lover, Touch Me
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Ten Shocking Omissions from the 2025 Oscar Nominations
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Oscar Nominations Predictions 2025
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Dream of Death: Robert Eggers on “Nosferatu”
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Peter Berg Shows the Ugly Side of American History With the Frustrating “American Primeval”
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Noah Wyle Anchors Intense, Effective Max Medical Drama “The Pitt”
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FOX’s “Going Dutch” Lacks Chemistry, Heart, and a Sense of Humor
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14 Underrated Movies of 2024
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The Great Craft of 2024
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Process the Environment: Rachel Morrison on “The Fire Inside”
Chaz's Journal
My Night at the Critics Choice Celebration of Black Cinema and Television
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2025 Sundance Film Festival Announces Ambitious Program
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The Best Films of 2024
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Plant the Tree: RaMell Ross, Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor on “Nickel Boys”
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Taylor Sheridan’s Well Runs Dry in “Landman”
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Prime Video’s “Cross” Adaptation is Killer
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Black Harvest Film Festival 2024 Preview
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Short Films in Focus: Don Hertzfeldt’s “ME”
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André Holland Talks Deleted Scenes from “42”
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