Festivals & Awards
SXSW 2024: Omni Loop, Desert Road, Things Will Be Different
On three trippy sci-fi movies from SXSW, including a standout with Ayo Edebiri.
SXSW 2024: Clemente, Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie, This is a Movie About the Black Keys
On three SXSW bio-docs on Roberto Clemente, Cheech & Chong, and The Black Keys.
SXSW 2024: Whatever It Takes, Resynator, The Hobby
Three more docs from SXSW, including an insane true crime story.
SXSW 2024: Dandelion, A Nice Indian Boy, I Don’t Understand You, I Love You Forever
On four SXSW premieres, including one of the standouts of the fest.
SXSW 2024: Oddity, Azrael, Kryptic
On three SXSW genre films, including the standout, Oddity.
SXSW 2024: Dickweed, Secret Mall Apartment, She Looks Like Me
Brief thoughts on three docs from SXSW with stories too crazy to be fiction.
War Was Not Over at the 2024 Oscars
The glamour inside, the protests outside, and everything in between.
Oscars 2024: The View from the Room
The Oscar sandwich: a slab of gloriousness between two slices of bad
SXSW 2024: Roleplay, Gasoline Rainbow, Grand Theft Hamlet
On three very different docs from SXSW that are still somehow connected by a theme of community and the need for expression.
A Great Movie Year Deserved a Better Oscars
Despite some flashes of inspiration, protest and pizzazz, the 96th Academy Awards were too routine to capture the spirit of 2023’s brilliant films and the uncertain world outside the multiplex.
SXSW Film Festival 2024: Babes, My Dead Friend Zoe, Y2K
On three world premieres from SXSW this year, including new films by Pamela Adlon and Kyle Mooney.
True/False 2024: Coming Home Again
A recap of one of the essential documentary film festivals of the year.
True/False 2024: Ibelin, Alien Island, Yintah
On three docs from this year’s True/False.
True/False 2024: A Photographic Memory, There Was There Was Not, Three Promises
On three films from this year’s True/False Film Festival.
You’re Naked Without Us: A Report from the Costume Designers Guild
A report on the state of the Costume Designer industry, including winners from the recent awards and comments from Poor Things’ Holly Waddingham.
Oscar Predictions 2024: What Will Win This Year
Our expert’s picks for this year’s winners.
Nobody Else Is Doing What Emma Stone Is Doing Right Now
Poor Things would be achievement enough. But between that, The Curse and her recent appearance on Saturday Night Live, the actor-producer is operating on a different level than everyone else.
Ebertfest Film Festival Over the Years
A compilation of articles spotlighting memorable screenings at Ebertfest over the years.
Japanese Horror Comes to the Film Forum
An awesome horror film festival is about to start in NYC.
