Ryan Coogler Movie Reviews
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Festivals & Awards
San Diego Comic-Con 2026: Composers, Costume Designers, and Brad Bird in Hall H
July 27, 2026
DVD/Blu-Ray
Criterion Venerates Three Essential Works of ’90s Black Cinema with “John Singleton’s Hood Trilogy”
April 29, 2026
Festivals & Awards
At This Year’s Oscars, The Show Must Go On
March 16, 2026
Festivals & Awards
If We Picked the Winners: The 98th Academy Awards
March 11, 2026
Festivals & Awards
Why Ryan Coogler Should Win Best Director for “Sinners”
March 10, 2026
Festivals & Awards
RogerEbert.com Covers Awards Season
January 22, 2026
Festivals & Awards
“Sinners” Sets Record with 16 Oscar Nominations
January 22, 2026
Features
2026 Oscar Nominations Predictions in the Major Categories
January 19, 2026
Festivals & Awards
“Sinners,” “Bel-Air” Lead NAACP Image Award Nominees
January 12, 2026
Features
Chaz Ebert’s 30 Best Movies of 2025 (and One Guilty Pleasure)
December 29, 2025
Features
The 10 Best Horror Films of 2025
December 23, 2025
Festivals & Awards
“One Battle After Another,” “Sinners” Lead Chicago Film Critics Association Nominees
December 9, 2025
Features
The Ten Best Films of 2025
December 9, 2025
Features
The 20 Best Films of 2025 So Far
June 12, 2025
Chaz's Journal
Wisdom of the Sages: Warren Buffet, Deborah Szekely, Buddy Guy, and Pope Francis Show Us the Way
May 7, 2025
Features
Robert Daniels & Odie Henderson Talk Sinners
April 24, 2025
Interviews
Defined In Isolation: Ryan Coogler on “Sinners”
April 18, 2025
Interviews
Process the Environment: Rachel Morrison on “The Fire Inside”
December 23, 2024
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: May 2023
May 18, 2023
Festivals & Awards
Nina Yang Bongiovi to Receive the Variety Creative Impact Award at the 2023 Sun Valley Film Festival
March 21, 2023
Festivals & Awards
Angela Bassett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Fraser, Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson Feted at SBIFF 2023
February 27, 2023
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: February 2023
February 21, 2023
Festivals & Awards
10 Major Snubs and Surprises from the 2023 Oscar Nominations
January 24, 2023
Festivals & Awards
23rd Annual Black Reel Awards to Celebrate its 2023 Honorees on February 6th
January 18, 2023
Festivals & Awards
Variety Hosts Ten Directors to Watch and Creative Impact Awards Brunch
January 6, 2023
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2023 Announces Additional Premiere, Competition, Encore Titles
January 4, 2023
Chaz's Journal
Five Movies to See OIT (Only in Theaters)
July 21, 2022
Black Writers Week
A New Class Of Filmmakers: ABFF and HBO Short Film Award Finalists Bring Their Stories To Life
June 18, 2022
Features
Chaz Ebert to Receive the Ruby Dee Humanitarian Award
February 16, 2022
Festivals & Awards
Why the Film Passing Stirs The Imagination
January 17, 2022
Chaz's Journal
Five Articles In Praise of Rebecca Hall’s Directorial Debut, Passing
November 11, 2021
Festivals & Awards
David Fincher’s Mank Leads 93rd Oscar Nominees with 10
March 15, 2021
Interviews
Dominique Fishback on Judas and the Black Messiah, Portraying Akua Njeri, and More
February 15, 2021
Interviews
The Ripple Effect: Daniel Kaluuya and Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. on Judas and the Black Messiah
February 10, 2021
Festivals & Awards
Spike Lee Receives American Cinematheque Award
January 15, 2021
Tributes
Chadwick Boseman: 1976-2020
August 29, 2020
MZS
What’s Next: Marvel, the serials, and the future
May 11, 2019
Chaz's Journal
How the Image of Black Women Has (and Hasn’t) Changed in the Last Two Decades
March 6, 2019
Chaz's Journal
Women Writers Week 2019: Table of Contents
March 6, 2019
Chaz's Journal
Thank You, George Cukor and Mitchell Leisen – With Props to Ryan Coogler
March 5, 2019
Festivals & Awards
The Right Side of History: Backstage at the 91st Academy Awards
February 25, 2019
Festivals & Awards
Oscar Predictions 2019: Who Will Win, Who Should Win, and Who Should Have Been Nominated
February 20, 2019
Interviews
Not Listening to No: An Interview with Elvis Mitchell
February 19, 2019
Festivals & Awards
AAFCA Awards Celebrates Tenth Anniversary, Names Black Panther Best Picture
February 7, 2019
Chaz's Journal
My Joys and Sorrows of the 2019 Oscar Nominations
January 22, 2019
Festivals & Awards
Roma, Vice, Black Panther Win Big at 24th Critics’ Choice Awards
January 15, 2019
Festivals & Awards
The State of the 2019 Oscar Race After the Golden Globes
January 7, 2019
Interviews
The RogerEbert.com Interviews of 2018
December 31, 2018
Features
Nell Minow’s Top Ten Films of 2018
December 13, 2018
Features
Tomris Laffly’s Top Ten Films of 2018
December 12, 2018
Features
Odie Henderson’s Top Ten Films of 2018
December 12, 2018
Chaz's Journal
My List of Movies to See Before the End of 2018
November 9, 2018
Features
How the Fall Festivals Shaped the 2018 Oscar Race
September 14, 2018
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2018: Table of Contents
May 11, 2018
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2018: Black Panther director Ryan Coogler returns to the festival
May 10, 2018
Interviews
We Have to Choose Love: Forest Whitaker on The Forgiven
March 7, 2018
Far Flungers
The Destiny of Abandonment: The Films of Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan
March 1, 2018
MZS
Dreams of Africa: The Fantasy Politics of Black Panther
February 18, 2018
Chaz's Journal
When Is a Superhero Movie Not Just a Movie? When it is Black Panther.
February 15, 2018
Interviews
We Hung Onto It: Ryan Coogler on Black Panther
February 12, 2018
Features
2018 Winter Movie Preview: 25 Films We’re Excited About
January 15, 2018
Interviews
The Next Step: Lupita Nyong’o on “Queen of Katwe”
September 20, 2016
Features
Always The Greatest: Remembering Muhammad Ali
June 4, 2016
Features
Thumbnails 5/31/16
May 31, 2016
Chaz's Journal
Justin Chang Hired as Film Critic for L.A. Times
April 7, 2016
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: March 17, 2016
March 12, 2016
Festivals & Awards
Why the Oscars Need to Move Lifetime Achievement Back to the Telecast
February 23, 2016
Festivals & Awards
If We Picked the Winners 2016: Best Supporting Actor
February 22, 2016
Festivals & Awards
African-American Film Critics-Black Oscars?
February 8, 2016
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2016 Interview: “The Land”
February 1, 2016
Features
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December 18, 2015
Features
The Individual Top Tens of 2015
December 16, 2015
Features
The Ten Best Films of 2015
December 15, 2015
Features
2015 Fall Movie Preview
September 3, 2015
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2015: “Dégradé,” “Marguerite & Julien,” “The Grief of Others,” “Arabian Nights, Volume 2” and a showcase for diversity
May 19, 2015
Features
Beyond Ferguson: Pop Culture through the Lens of Race
August 22, 2014
Interviews
Tishuan Scott and Ashton Sanders on “The Retrieval”
May 12, 2014
Festivals & Awards
Oscars: Sundancing Into Awards History Or Obscurity
January 28, 2014
MZS
Matt Zoller Seitz’s Top 10 Films of 2013
December 31, 2013
Features
Top Ten Lists of 2013 From Our Contributors
December 30, 2013
Features
Black FIlm and TV Directors in 2013: A Progress Report
December 19, 2013
Features
Five Memories from My Year of Watching Women
December 9, 2013
Festivals & Awards
New York Film Critics Circle and National Board of Review Start the Oscar Race
December 4, 2013
Features
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November 17, 2013
Chaz's Journal
Four Black Actors Vie for the Best Actor Oscar
September 8, 2013
MZS
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July 25, 2013
Features
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July 22, 2013
Features
“It could have been me”: Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan talk about “Fruitvale Station”
July 19, 2013
Features
“Fruitvale Station” Interviews
July 18, 2013
Chaz's Journal
Roger Ebert Scholarship For Film Criticism established at Sundance Institute
June 9, 2013
Features
Sundance Institute Honors Roger Ebert and Filmmaker Ryan Coogler
June 7, 2013
Festivals & Awards
Awards Show Wrap-up: Cannes Report, May 26
May 26, 2013
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