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“Tires” Has Developed into One of Netflix’s Best Comedies in Season 3
Festivals & Awards
Fantasia 2026: You Are the Film, Someone’s Daughter, Los Vampires
Features
It’s Just You and Me Now, Sport: On “Manhunter: The Final Cut”
Chaz's Journal
Chicago, Home of Great Music and Newspapers
Festivals & Awards
Freaks, Samurais, and Vampires: Our 10 Most Anticipated of Fantasia 2026
TV/Streaming
“Elle” Does Its Best to Smell Like Teen Spirit
Festivals & Awards
60th Karlovy Vary Film Festival Announces Official Selection and Juries
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2026: “Fjord” wins Palme d’Or
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2026: The Birthday Party, When the Night Falls
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2026: Avedon, Visitation
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2026 Video #5: Festival Dispatch with Ben Kenigsberg
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2026: Fatherland, Parallel Tales
TV/Streaming
Prime Video’s “Off Campus” is Big on Romance, Music, and Spice
Festivals & Awards
An Essential Showcase in a Difficult Time: Cannes Film Festival 2026 Preview
Features
How “In a Lonely Place” Changed Noir’s Direction
TV/Streaming
Volume Six of Netflix’s “Untold” Offers More Digestible Breakdowns of Sports Scandals
Interviews
Hope-Core: Daniel Pemberton on Composing “Project Hail Mary”
Festivals & Awards
At This Year’s Oscars, The Show Must Go On
Festivals & Awards
If We Picked the Winners: The 98th Academy Awards
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
Features
Christy Lemire Bids a Fond Farewell to RogerEbert.com
TV/Streaming
Hulu’s “Paradise” Splits Its Focus And Gets More Frustratingly Unhinged In Season 2
Tributes
The Belle of Absurdity: Catherine O’Hara (1954-2026)
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2026: When a Witness Recants, Time and Water, Antiheroine
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide January 2026: “One Battle After Another,” “Tron: Ares,” “Wicked: For Good,” More
Festivals & Awards
“Sinners” Sets Record with 16 Oscar Nominations
Features
2026 Oscar Nominations Predictions in the Major Categories
Interviews
Remote-Droppers and Jeff Bridges: Nick Digilio on His Book About 40 Years Reviewing Movies
TV/Streaming
HBO’s “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” Is The Best Fantasy Adaptation of the Decade
Festivals & Awards
“One Battle After Another,” “Hamnet” Win Big at 2026 Golden Globes
TV/Streaming
“A Thousand Blows” Lands Another One-Two Punch of Victorian Intrigue in Season 2
Features
40 Movies We Can’t Wait to See in 2026
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide December 2025: “Black Phone 2,” “Bugonia,” “Good Fortune,” More
Features
Chaz Ebert’s 30 Best Movies of 2025 (and One Guilty Pleasure)
Features
The Great Craft of 2025
Features
The Great Performances of 2025
Festivals & Awards
“One Battle After Another” Wins Record Number of Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
Features
Two Thumbs Up! The Individual Top Tens of 2025
Festivals & Awards
Sundance Film Festival Announces 2026 Line-Up
Festivals & Awards
“One Battle After Another,” “Sinners” Lead Chicago Film Critics Association Nominees
Features
The Ten Best Films of 2025
Festivals & Awards
Palm Springs Film Festival Announces 2026 Lineup
Roger Ebert
Actors Superbly Channel Siskel and Ebert Onstage in Chicago
Features
Right Now, It’s Important: An Ode to S.E. Hinton’s Teenagers
Features
Siskel & Ebert at the Movies Celebrates its 50th Anniversary
Features
Criterion Mobile Closet Steered Through Chicago International Film Festival Amid An Intense Political Weekend
Festivals & Awards
CIFF 2025: One Golden Summer, Before the Call, Adult Children, Only Heaven Knows
TV/Streaming
“Slow Horses” Continues to Entertain, Even in a Lesser Season
Interviews
An Ear for Writing For Women: Stan Zimmerman on Golden Girls, Rosanne, Gilmore Girls
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2025: A Canadian Viewpoint on the Toronto International Film Festival at 50
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2025: Hamnet, Driver’s Ed, EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
TV/Streaming
“Gen V” Rivals “The Boys” in a Sharper and Sleeker Season Two
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2025: Fuze, Glenrothan, The Last Viking
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2025: Wake Up Dead Man, Rental Family
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2025: Palestine 36, The Choral, Peak Everything
MZS
“When the World Broke Open: Katrina and its Afterlives” Launches at MOMA
TV/Streaming
Netflix’s “Hostage” Fails to Hold the Audience Captive
Festivals & Awards
Locarno Film Festival 2025: 14 Films Commemorating Postwar Britain
Tributes
One Final Look: Terence Stamp (1938-2025)
Festivals & Awards
Locarno Film Festival 2025: Blue Heron, Dracula, Legend Of The Happy Worker
Features
Meet the Writers: Peyton Robinson
Festivals & Awards
Locarno Film Festival 2025: Preview
Festivals & Awards
SDCC 2025: Celebrating ALL the Popular Arts
TV/Streaming
From “Bosch” to “Ballard”: New Spinoff Tackles LA’s Cold Cases
Festivals & Awards
A Dispatch From the Bentonville Film Festival
Interviews
A Great Businessman in the Persona of a Wonderful Entertainer: Todd Purdum on Desi Arnaz
Interviews
We Relate: Andrew DeYoung on “Friendship”
Festivals & Awards
The 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival
Festivals & Awards
Highlights from the 2025 MUBI Fest Chicago
Interviews
Wonder Is Everything: Willem Dafoe on “The Legend of Ochi”
Tributes
The Most Unsung Leading Man of His Generation: Val Kilmer (1959-2025)
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Fleur Fortuné on “The Assessment”
Features
Writing Her Way: Marya E. Gates on Her New Book
Festivals & Awards
A Preview of the 2025 Rendez-Vous with French Cinema
DVD/Blu-Ray
February 2025 Blu-Ray Guide: “Wicked,” “Nosferatu,” “Here,” “Heretic,” More
TV/Streaming
Netflix’s “Cobra Kai” Lands One Final Nostalgic Punch In Its Last Episodes
Festivals & Awards
“El Norte” Screening Commemorates Sundance Institute History at Pivotal Moment
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2025: Big Swings Pay Off in the Episodic Program
MZS
Book Excerpt: Foreword to The Wes Anderson Collection: Asteroid City by David Bordwell
TV/Streaming
Starz’s “The Couple Next Door” Stops Itself From Reaching Great Heights
Interviews
Dream of Death: Robert Eggers on “Nosferatu”
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
TV/Streaming
The 25 Best TV Series of 2024
Festivals & Awards
2025 Sundance Film Festival Announces Ambitious Program
TV/Streaming
“Arcane” Makes Triumphant Return to Netflix
Features
Let the Game Begin: “Saw” at 20
Features
The Steady, Inevitable Decline: Sideways at 20
TV/Streaming
“The Last Days of the Space Age” is a Mess of a Missed Opportunity
Festivals & Awards
New York Film Festival 2024: Preview and Thoughts on “The Brutalist,” “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”
TV/Streaming
Peacock’s “Fight Night” Largely Entertains But Pulls A Few Punches
TV/Streaming
“The Perfect Couple” Retreads Better Shows About Bad Rich People
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