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Desire Is the Catalyst: Gregg Araki on “I Want Your Sex”
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Movies Aren’t Therapy: “Mike Mills” on Parents, Children, and Filmmaking
Chaz's Journal
Chicago, Home of Great Music and Newspapers
Festivals & Awards
KVIFF 2026: Lover, Not a Fighter, If Pigeons Turned to Gold, Only Beautiful Things to Look At
Interviews
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Features
Through the Window: 10 Times That Foreign Directors Have Looked at America
Black Writers Week
When Sci-fi Was Horny: “Logan’s Run” at 50
Black Writers Week
Radical Whimsy: Exploring the Creative Mind of Boots Riley
Black Writers Week
Cinematic Albums of the 2020s: Music That Feels Like a Movie
TV/Streaming
Overlong Summer Romance “Every Year After” Is More Fizzle Than Sizzle
Tributes
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Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2026: La Gradiva, Dora, Gabin
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Cannes 2026: Elephants in the Fog, Yesterday, The Eye Didn’t Sleep, A Girl’s Story
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Cannes 2026: Iron Boy, Tangles, Lucy Lost
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Cannes 2026 Video #6: Club Kid, Paper Tiger, Clarissa
Features
A Fond Farewell to Our Critic Monica Castillo
Tributes
A True American Original: Ted Turner (1938-2026)
Chaz's Journal
Join Us for the Inaugural FECK Awards Gala This Saturday, April 4th
Festivals & Awards
“Help Me To Find Kokumo”: A Guide To Beyond Chicago
Chaz's Journal
Inaugural FECK Awards to Honor Extraordinary Changemakers in Chicago on April 4th at the Ritz Carlton
Festivals & Awards
SXSW 2026: The Peril at Pincer Point, American Dollhouse, Anima
Festivals & Awards
SXSW 2026: Adam’s Apple, The Dads, Your Attention Please
Tributes
The Eye of a Camera: Frederick Wiseman (1930-2026)
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2026: The Best Summer, Saccharine, Rock Springs
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Sundance 2026: When a Witness Recants, Time and Water, Antiheroine
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Sundance 2026: The Shitheads, The History of Concrete, The Invite
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2026: I Want Your Sex, The Incomer, Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story
TV/Streaming
Ryan Murphy’s “The Beauty” Gives Excess Sex, Violence, & Half-Baked Ideas
TV/Streaming
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Festivals & Awards
“Sinners,” “Bel-Air” Lead NAACP Image Award Nominees
Interviews
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Interviews
To Love Each Other: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne on “Young Mothers”
TV/Streaming
40 Shows We Can’t Wait to Watch in 2026
Tributes
Sexual Liberation: Brigitte Bardot (1934-2025)
TV/Streaming
The 25 Best TV Shows of 2025
Festivals & Awards
Sundance Film Festival Announces 2026 Line-Up
Chaz's Journal
Join Chaz Ebert at the Critic’s Cut 2025 Event at FACETS
Festivals & Awards
Palm Springs Film Festival Announces 2026 Lineup
TV/Streaming
“Stranger Things” Sets Up Its Endgame with Quartet of New Episodes
Festivals & Awards
Tokyo Film Festival 2025: “Demon Pond” and Japanese Yokai Culture
Roger Ebert
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Features
Right Now, It’s Important: An Ode to S.E. Hinton’s Teenagers
Far Flungers
No Other Land: Surviving a Crushing Machine
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2025: Mile End Kicks, Maddie’s Secret, Poetic License
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2025: 20 World Premieres We Can’t Wait to See
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Hind Meddeb on “Sudan, Remember Us”
Tributes
One of Us: Malcolm-Jamal Warner (1970-2025)
Interviews
Our Minds Have Been Colonized: Ari Aster on “Eddington”
Festivals & Awards
KVIFF 2025: “Bidad” Director Soheil Beiraghi on Filming Undercover, Amplifying the Voices of Iranian Gen-Z Women
Features
The 10 Best Oasis Needle Drops
Features
Sex and Threads: The Major Works of Takashi Miike
Tributes
The Light She Left Behind: Ananda Lewis (1973-2025)
Festivals & Awards
59th Karlovy Vary Film Festival Announces Official Selection and Juries
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2025: Second Takes on a Few Fest Darlings
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2025: Renoir, Sons of the Neon Night, Orwell: 2+2=5
Festivals & Awards
The Red Carpets of the 2025 Chicago Critics Film Festival
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2025: The Plague, The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo, Amrum
Interviews
That’s What Disruption Does For Me: Gareth Evans on “Havoc”
Interviews
Wonder Is Everything: Willem Dafoe on “The Legend of Ochi”
Interviews
Defined In Isolation: Ryan Coogler on “Sinners”
TV/Streaming
“Black Mirror” is Back to Bum You Out with One of Its Stronger Seasons
Interviews
Ambient Comedy: Carson Lund on “Eephus”
Features
Age Has No Expiration When It Comes to Talent
Features
Women Develop New Models of Heroism in Festival Docs
Features
Will I Ever Take My Kids to the Movies?
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Movies to Watch if You Love Bad Bunny
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30 Minutes On: “Watership Down”
TV/Streaming
Pixar’s Charming but Compromised “Win or Lose” Catches A Few Foul Balls
MZS
Life, the Movie: Why Documentary Filmmaking Should Return to, You Know, Documenting Stuff
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2025: The Librarians, Middletown, Speak.
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2025: Come See Me In The Good Light, Move Ya Body, Deaf President Now!
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2025: Brides, Where the Wind Comes From, Two Women
Features
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Interviews
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Chaz's Journal
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10 Great Horror Films from 2024 (and Where to Watch Them)
Tributes
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Festivals & Awards
CIFF 2024: The Return of the Projectionist, Between Goodbyes, The Brink of Dreams
Features
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Chicago International Film Festival 2024 Preview
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