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Notes on watching "Aliens" for the first time again, with a bunch of kids
Captain's log: eight fifth graders, one adult, one James Cameron movie.
Captain's log: eight fifth graders, one adult, one James Cameron movie.
David Cronenberg's film of Bruce Wagner's Hollywood satire-nightmare turns ludicrous situations into operatic tragedy.
Famous scenes from great movies, re-enacted with stick figures.
This intimate documentary set at a "free school" is nothing less than a Rorschach test for viewers' ideas of what education should be.
The RogerEbert.com staff pick for the Best Picture of 2015.
Gett, the Trial of Vivane Amsalem is a quietly gripping courtroom drama in which a particular social problem (divorce in Israel) becomes a pretext for a parade of extraordinary characters.
Video essay about Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel," adapted from the new book by Matt Zoller Seitz.
An excerpt from Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema Vol. 3.
Spike Lee's remake of the 1970s vampire romance "Ganja and Hess" is one of the director's strangest and most obsessive movies, but it casts a perverse spell.
Much more than an account of a horrific crime, this documentary about Matthew Shepard is about people carrying tragedy with them through life, and making something positive from it.