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Wagner Movie Reviews
Blog Posts That Mention Wagner
Wagner Moura Is Still Holding On To Hope
The Glorious Year of Morgan Freeman
Cannes 2025 Video #8: Award Winners
Cannes 2025: Second Takes on a Few Fest Darlings
Cannes 2025: Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident” Wins Palme d’Or
Cannes 2025 Video #4: Brian Tallerico on Mission Impossible, The Phoenician Scheme, My Father’s Shadow, Secret Agent
Cannes 2025: The Secret Agent, The Love That Remains, Magellan
Brian Tyree Henry Does His Best to Carry Apple TV’s Explosive “Dope Thief”
Don’t Miss IndieCollect’s RescueFest This Weekend
Home Entertainment Guide: September 2024
TIFF 2024: 20 World Premieres We Can’t Wait to See
The Imperiled Women of Alex Garland’s Films
The Second Season of Will Trent Premieres as Charming as Ever
Prime Video’s Update of Mr. and Mrs. Smith Crackles with Wit and Creative Energy
Hulu’s The Other Black Girl Crumbles Under the Weight of Modern Black Horror Tropes
Noir City Returns to the Music Box in Chicago
A Look Back at Tribeca 2023
Cannes 2023: Black Flies, Youth (Spring), Homecoming
The Rewards are Endless: Scott Ryan on His New Book, Lost Highway: The Fist of Love
Sundance 2023: Fantastic Machine, Milithusando, The Eternal Memory
2023 Sundance Film Festival Announces Competition Films, Premiere Titles, Midnight Selections, and More
Shining Girls Offers Twist on Serial Killer Genre
Vampire’s Twist: A Look Back at Shadow of the Vampire
A Sense of Hope: Greg Barker on Sérgio
Sundance 2020 Announces Competition, Midnight, Premiere Titles and More
Death Stranding Offers Surreal, Cinematic Experience with Controller in Your Hands
The Best Films of the 2010s
We talk about cinema to talk about everything else: A Look at the Future of Brazilian Cinema
In Loving Memory of Diahann Carroll and Jessye Norman
TIFF 2019: Harriet, Wasp Network, Guns Akimbo
We Are a Nation of Immigrants: Gregory Nava on His Masterpiece, El Norte
Preview of Noir City Chicago 2019
Son of the father: Peter Fonda, 1940-2019
Sundance 2019: Wounds, Greener Grass, Mope
The Virtue of Stillness: The Performances of Glenn Close
Celebrating Michael Kutza: Founder of Chicago International Film Festival to be Honored at July 14th Gala
Goodbye to the Sigh Guy: A Tribute to Tab Hunter, 1931-2018
A Universal Story: Rutger Hauer on Samson
Jóhann Jóhannsson: 1969-2018
CIFF 2017 Preview: 45 Films to See
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: July 13, 2017
Thumbnails 6/7/17
Ridley’s Remake: “Alien” Through David’s Eyes
“Rat Film,” “Whose Streets?”, “The Cinema Travelers” Among Highlights at DOC10 Film Festival
Thumbnails 2/17/17
“Carol,” “Trainwreck,” “Mr. Robot” Among 2016 Golden Globe Nominees
Shorts Films in Focus: “World of Tomorrow”
Learning Through Failure: Paul Weitz on “Grandma”
The five arias from operas that movies can’t live without
Thumbnails 6/1/15
Everyone’s A Hero In Their Own Way: Tracing the Superheroic Roots of Joss Whedon
I Miss Him: His Readers Remember Roger Ebert
Berlin 2015: Come On, Pilgrim: Terrence Malick’s “Knight of Cups”
Report from the 27th Tokyo Film Festival
Marian Seldes: 1928-2014
Cannes 2014: a debate
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Winter Sleep” takes Palme d’Or
The Fault in Our Stars: David Cronenberg’s Latest Triumph
Cannes: In “National Gallery,” Frederick Wiseman observes the London museum’s operations
Cannes Day Five: “Map to the Stars”
An Appreciation of the Disaster Movie on the 40th Anniversary of “The Towering Inferno”
Thumbnails 4/30/14
Hashtag Activism and the #CancelColbert campaign
Magnolia Pictures acquires “Life Itself”
The Thinking Molecules of Titan: Ending by Caden Murdoch
The Thinking Molecules of Titan: Ending by Vivienne Béla
Thumbnails 6/28/2013
Robert Duvall: “Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that”
Django Unchain my heart (and set me free)
The year’s ten best films and other shenanigans
50 greatest music films ever
Faking the real and unreeling the fake
Opening Shots: The New World
The Seitz-geist
Inglourious Basterds: Real or fictitious, it doesn’t matter…
‘Birth’ of a Buñuelian Notion
Pauline and Renata Go Showboating
Melancholia: This is The End
The Rest is Noise
Mister Rogers Goes to the Movies
Before “Airplane!” there were the Airport movies
Taking the Plunge
Gary Winick: A valediction forbidding mourning
It ain’t over until the postman rings
The spheres of the music
CIFF 2010: Our capsule reviews
CIFF 2012 puts the ‘Chicago’ in film fest
Take 46: CIFF brings the world of film to town
Two war films, worlds apart: ‘Avatar,’ ‘Hurt Locker’ lead Oscar noms
Complete list of Oscar nominations
Toronto #1: 2nd city for film festivals
Toronto #5: Great performances, strong stories
Sundance #6: The talent among us
