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Tucker Movie Reviews
Blog Posts That Mention Tucker
TV/Streaming
A-List Cast Continues to Make “Lioness” the Queen of the Streaming Jungle
Festivals & Awards
Everything for Someone: San Diego Comic-Con 2026 Part 2
TV/Streaming
“The Map of Longing” Offers Real Catharsis Despite Its Teen Melancholy
Features
Retreating From The Elephant: The Perpetually Impending Demise of Indie Cinema
TV/Streaming
Prime Video’s “Off Campus” is Big on Romance, Music, and Spice
Women Writers Week
“The Bronze” at 10: How a Washed-Up Gymnast Became a Cult Antihero
Black Writers Week
Celebrating Black Cinema: Shawn Edwards on the Black Movie Hall of Fame
Festivals & Awards
A Preview of the 2025 Black Harvest Film Festival
Features
The FCC Crackdown on Jimmy Kimmel Should Worry All of Us
Features
The Golden Boy: 11 of Our Favorite Robert Redford Performances
Interviews
Humanizing the Sharks: Sean Byrne on “Dangerous Animals”
DVD/Blu-Ray
March 2025 Blu-Ray Guide: “Babygirl,” “Sing Sing,” “Den of Thieves 2,” “Moana 2”
TV/Streaming
What to Watch on Netflix: March 2025
MZS
The Atlas of Cinema: In Praise of Adam Driver
Black Writers Week
You Ready To Be the King?: Fresh Turns 30
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: May 2024
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2024: Megalopolis, Bird, The Damned, Meeting with Pol Pot
Features
A Farewell from Our Literary Editor, Matt Fagerholm
TV/Streaming
Criminal Record is Apple TV’s Latest Exercise in Mediocrity
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2023: American Fiction, Wicked Little Letters, The Critic
Chaz's Journal
Ten Must-See Films at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival
Interviews
Speak Up: Lashana Lynch on ear for eye
Chaz at Cannes
Five Great Tales from Cannes’ Past
Chaz's Journal
The Movie AIR Celebrates Michael Jordan’s Mother
Interviews
Tragically Common: Jamie Dack, Lily McInerny and Jonathan Tucker on Palm Trees and Power Lines
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: December 2022
Festivals & Awards
SXSW 2022: Bad Axe, Master of Light, Under the Influence
Festivals & Awards
SXSW 2022: This Much I Know to Be True, The Return of Tanya Tucker, I Get Knocked Down
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2022: Cha Cha Real Smooth, Palm Trees and Power Lines, Alice, Blood
Tributes
The Mystery Was the Point: On the Life of Dean Stockwell (1936-2021)
Festivals & Awards
A Preview of the 57th Chicago International Film Festival
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: September 2021
Features
We Do What We Can to Endure: On Memory and Time in David Lowery’s Films
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2021: Onoda, Everything Went Fine, Between Two Worlds, The Velvet Underground
Chaz's Journal
Reprise: The Evolution of Afrofuturism: Black Power, Black Love, Black Superheroes and Magic
Black Writers Week
Meet the Writers of Black Writers Week 2021
TV/Streaming
NBC’s Debris Feels Like a Throwback to Post-Lost Mysteries
Festivals & Awards
The 2020 Frontrunners For Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor
Interviews
The Illusionary Quality of a Dream: Stella Hopkins on Her Directorial Debut, Elyse
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: October 2020
TV/Streaming
Excellent Performances Lead Hulu’s Disturbing Horror Series Monsterland
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2019: The Personal History of David Copperfield, Sound of Metal, Human Capital
Festivals & Awards
Serious Oscar Contenders Unveiled at 2019 Indy Shorts International Film Festival
TV/Streaming
Kevin Bacon Leads Showtime Crime Saga City on a Hill
Chaz's Journal
Are You Even Listening? The Middle School Girls of Pen15 and Eighth Grade Are Speaking
Features
Short Films in Focus: The 2019 Oscar-Nominated Short Films
Festivals & Awards
RIFF 2018: Iceland, Donbass and Swimming with The Fifth Element
Festivals & Awards
Real-Life Heroes and Star-Driven Films at 2018 Telluride Film Festival
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: May 10, 2018
MZS
The Unloved, Part 50: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia and The Counselor
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2018: An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn, Juliet, Naked, Holiday
TV/Streaming
Netflix’s Dirty Money Sheds Light on Financial Darkness
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2018 Announces Competition, Premiere, Midnight Titles and More
Features
“Call of Duty” and “Wolfenstein” Redefine the Modern WWII Game
Features
Martin Landau: 1928-2017
Features
Thumbnails 5/12/17
Features
Mysterious Beauty: A David Lynch Retrospective Comes to IFC Center
Interviews
A Supreme Artist: Pascal Mérigeau on “Jean Renoir: A Biography”
Features
2016 Fall Movie Preview: 50 Movies That’ll Prove Film Isn’t Dead
Features
Gene Wilder 1933 – 2016
Features
The Political Idealism of Gary Ross
TV/Streaming
Women Overtake the Frat House: How Female Comedians Have Redefined Comedy Central
Chaz's Journal
Who’s Who In Reviews: Odie Henderson
Features
Unholy Dedication: A History of Jackie Chan’s “Police Story” Franchise
Chaz's Journal
Memories of Roger: My Photo Journal from the Last Two Years
TV/Streaming
You Can’t Go Homeland Again: NBC’s Frustrating “State of Affairs”
TV/Streaming
Streaming Consumer Guide: June 19, 2014
Features
thumbnails 8/5/2013
Chaz's Journal
Hollywood and Indie Worlds Come Together for Roger Ebert Memorial Tribute
Roger Ebert
Indie Spirit Awards pitch a big tent
Roger Ebert
The Best 10 Movies of 1988
Scanners
Is Willy Wonka Wacko Jacko?
Raven Evans from Cannes
“I can respect the stupidity of people who think that speed is beauty,” agrees Paul Cox
Scanners
50 greatest music films ever
Scanners
To spoil or not to spoil? (Don’t worry.)
Scanners
Alien vs. Predator, Chigurh vs. Plainview
Scanners
The Ultimate Movie Quiz (and Free Personality Inventory!)
Scanners
In movies begin responsibilities
Scanners
All apologies (and new reviews)
Scanners
Yes, but is it art?
Scanners
What was YOUR favorite comedy of 2006?
Far Flungers
A gay kid’s long, barely-repressed sob
Far Flungers
Hoping for Hope in a Philly Neighborhood
TV/Streaming
