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Blog Posts That Mention Wagner
TV/Streaming
A-List Cast Continues to Make “Lioness” the Queen of the Streaming Jungle
Festivals & Awards
Tribeca 2026: The Narratives
TV/Streaming
“Star Wars” Keeps Its Animation on the Dark Side (Literally) with “Maul – Shadow Lord”
Festivals & Awards
If We Picked the Winners: The 98th Academy Awards
Women Writers Week
Who Will Remember You?: “The Secret Agent” and the Humanities as Resistance
DVD/Blu-Ray
Jonathan Glazer’s “Birth” is Resurrected in a Haunting Criterion 4K Release
Festivals & Awards
RogerEbert.com Covers Awards Season
Festivals & Awards
“Sinners” Sets Record with 16 Oscar Nominations
Features
2026 Oscar Nominations Predictions in the Major Categories
Festivals & Awards
“One Battle After Another,” “Hamnet” Win Big at 2026 Golden Globes
Interviews
Craziness and Contradiction: Kirill Serebrennikov on “Limonov: The Ballad”
Chaz's Journal
Happy New Year 2026 from Chaz Ebert and Everyone at RogerEbert.com
Features
Chaz Ebert’s 30 Best Movies of 2025 (and One Guilty Pleasure)
Features
The Great Performances 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
No Good Deed Will Go Unpunished: Kleber Mendonça Filho and Wagner Moura on “The Secret Agent”
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2025: The 63rd Edition Comes to a Close
Features
What Really Matters is What You Like: “High Fidelity” at 25
DVD/Blu-Ray
Criterion’s “The Wes Anderson Archive” is the Blu-ray Box Set of the Year
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Hind Meddeb on “Sudan, Remember Us”
Features
The Glorious Year of Morgan Freeman
Chaz at Cannes
Cannes 2025 Video #8: Award Winners
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2025: Second Takes on a Few Fest Darlings
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2025: Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident” Wins Palme d’Or
Chaz at Cannes
Cannes 2025 Video #4: Brian Tallerico on Mission Impossible, The Phoenician Scheme, My Father’s Shadow, Secret Agent
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2025: The Secret Agent, The Love That Remains, Magellan
TV/Streaming
Brian Tyree Henry Does His Best to Carry Apple TV’s Explosive “Dope Thief”
Festivals & Awards
Don’t Miss IndieCollect’s RescueFest This Weekend
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide: September 2024
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2024: 20 World Premieres We Can’t Wait to See
Features
The Imperiled Women of Alex Garland’s Films
Interviews
Wagner Moura Is Still Holding On To Hope
TV/Streaming
The Second Season of Will Trent Premieres as Charming as Ever
TV/Streaming
Prime Video’s Update of Mr. and Mrs. Smith Crackles with Wit and Creative Energy
TV/Streaming
Hulu’s The Other Black Girl Crumbles Under the Weight of Modern Black Horror Tropes
Festivals & Awards
Noir City Returns to the Music Box in Chicago
Festivals & Awards
A Look Back at Tribeca 2023
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2023: Black Flies, Youth (Spring), Homecoming
Interviews
The Rewards are Endless: Scott Ryan on His New Book, Lost Highway: The Fist of Love
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2023: Fantastic Machine, Milithusando, The Eternal Memory
Festivals & Awards
2023 Sundance Film Festival Announces Competition Films, Premiere Titles, Midnight Selections, and More
TV/Streaming
Shining Girls Offers Twist on Serial Killer Genre
Far Flungers
Vampire’s Twist: A Look Back at Shadow of the Vampire
Interviews
A Sense of Hope: Greg Barker on Sérgio
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2020 Announces Competition, Midnight, Premiere Titles and More
Features
Death Stranding Offers Surreal, Cinematic Experience with Controller in Your Hands
Features
The Best Films of the 2010s
Features
We talk about cinema to talk about everything else: A Look at the Future of Brazilian Cinema
Chaz's Journal
In Loving Memory of Diahann Carroll and Jessye Norman
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2019: Harriet, Wasp Network, Guns Akimbo
Interviews
We Are a Nation of Immigrants: Gregory Nava on His Masterpiece, El Norte
Features
Preview of Noir City Chicago 2019
MZS
Son of the father: Peter Fonda, 1940-2019
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2019: Wounds, Greener Grass, Mope
Features
The Virtue of Stillness: The Performances of Glenn Close
Festivals & Awards
Celebrating Michael Kutza: Founder of Chicago International Film Festival to be Honored at July 14th Gala
Features
Goodbye to the Sigh Guy: A Tribute to Tab Hunter, 1931-2018
Interviews
A Universal Story: Rutger Hauer on Samson
Features
Jóhann Jóhannsson: 1969-2018
Festivals & Awards
CIFF 2017 Preview: 45 Films to See
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: July 13, 2017
Features
Thumbnails 6/7/17
Features
Ridley’s Remake: “Alien” Through David’s Eyes
Festivals & Awards
“Rat Film,” “Whose Streets?”, “The Cinema Travelers” Among Highlights at DOC10 Film Festival
Features
Thumbnails 2/17/17
Festivals & Awards
“Carol,” “Trainwreck,” “Mr. Robot” Among 2016 Golden Globe Nominees
Features
Shorts Films in Focus: “World of Tomorrow”
Interviews
Learning Through Failure: Paul Weitz on “Grandma”
Features
The five arias from operas that movies can’t live without
Features
Thumbnails 6/1/15
Features
Everyone’s A Hero In Their Own Way: Tracing the Superheroic Roots of Joss Whedon
Features
I Miss Him: His Readers Remember Roger Ebert
Festivals & Awards
Berlin 2015: Come On, Pilgrim: Terrence Malick’s “Knight of Cups”
Festivals & Awards
Report from the 27th Tokyo Film Festival
Features
Marian Seldes: 1928-2014
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2014: a debate
Festivals & Awards
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Winter Sleep” takes Palme d’Or
Festivals & Awards
The Fault in Our Stars: David Cronenberg’s Latest Triumph
Festivals & Awards
Cannes: In “National Gallery,” Frederick Wiseman observes the London museum’s operations
Festivals & Awards
Cannes Day Five: “Map to the Stars”
Far Flungers
An Appreciation of the Disaster Movie on the 40th Anniversary of “The Towering Inferno”
Features
Thumbnails 4/30/14
Far Flungers
Hashtag Activism and the #CancelColbert campaign
Chaz's Journal
Magnolia Pictures acquires “Life Itself”
Chaz's Journal
The Thinking Molecules of Titan: Ending by Caden Murdoch
Chaz's Journal
The Thinking Molecules of Titan: Ending by Vivienne Béla
Features
Thumbnails 6/28/2013
Features
Robert Duvall: “Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that”
Scanners
Django Unchain my heart (and set me free)
Roger Ebert
The year’s ten best films and other shenanigans
Scanners
Faking the real and unreeling the fake
Scanners
50 greatest music films ever
Scanners
Opening Shots: The New World
Scanners
The Seitz-geist
Scanners
