Black Harvest Film Festival 2023 Highlights: John Singleton, Tyler Perry, and A Vibrant Artistic Community
A recap of the 2023 Black Harvest Film Festival.
Festivals & Awards
Killers of the Flower Moon to Receive the Vanguard Award at the Palm Spring International Film Awards
An article announcing that Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” will receive the Vanguard Award at the Palm Springs International Film Awards.
Black Harvest Film Festival 2023 Interview: Monica Sorelle on Her Richly Personal Mountains
An interview with Monica Sorelle on Mountains, which played at the 2023 Black Harvest Film Festival in Chicago.
Black Harvest Film Festival 2023: Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes, Black Barbie: A Documentary, We Were Meant To, Burnt Milk
A dispatch from the 2023 Black Harvest Film Festival in Chicago.
Oscar-winning Filmmaker Matthew A. Cherry to Receive the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival’s Inspire Award
An article about Oscar-winning filmmaker Matthew A. Cherry receiving the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival’s Inspire Award.
The Holdovers
A consistently smart, funny movie about people that are easy to root for and like ones we know.
CIFF 2023: Table of Contents
A compilation of all of our reviews of this year’s Chicago International Film Festival.
CIFF 2023: The Space Race, Food Roots, The Echo
On three docs that played at CIFF this year.
CIFF 2023: Explanation for Everything, About Dry Grasses, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
On three international films from CIFF, including the latest from Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Radu Jude, along with the Gold Hugo winner.
NYFF 2023: Pictures of Ghosts, Eureka, Last Summer
A final dispatch from NYFF on three more NYC premieres.
CIFF 2023: Robot Dreams, The Crime is Mine, Limbo
A dispatch on three films from the Chicago International Film Festival.
CIFF 2023: All of Us Strangers, Poor Things, Saltburn
On three major films that had their Windy City premiere at CIFF this year.
NYFF 2023: Here, La Chimera, Janet Planet
On three films that played at this year’s New York Film Festival, including the latest from Alice Rohrwacher.
CIFF 2023 Interview: Minhal Baig on Chicago Drama We Grown Now
An interview with Minhal Baig, writer/director of We Grown Now, which opened the 59th Chicago International Film Festival.
59th Chicago International Film Festival Announces Award-Winners
An article announcing the award-winners of the 59th Chicago International Film Festival.
Pain Hustlers
Yates is caught between critiquing the inhumanity of this startup and luxuriating in its gaudiness.
The Pigeon Tunnel
Reveals how even the most complex spy fiction can have a foundation in the relationship between a son and his father.
CIFF 2023: The Taste of Things, Fallen Leaves, La Chimera
On three major international films that played at CIFF this year.
