Festivals & AwardsThe EditorsApril 23, 2024TweetThe Academy’s Board of Governors has approved awards rules and campaign promotional regulations for the 97th Academy Awards. Many of these changes feel both like revisions t... More »
FeaturesTim GriersonApril 23, 2024TweetLove songs can be so trite. Rom-coms can be so formulaic. Because we spend much of our lives thinking about love, it’s no surprise that artists are similarly obsessed with matters of ... More »
TV/StreamingRendy JonesApril 22, 2024TweetAfter two “Sonic the Hedgehog” movies that involved Hollywood court ordering the blue blur to do the same mundane story as every popular property does by shipping him to Earth and ... More »
Festivals & AwardsMarya E. GatesApril 22, 2024TweetFor the past twenty-seven years the San Francisco Silent Film Festival has unearthed treasures from the silent film era and presented them with context and curation for au... More »
Festivals & AwardsChaz EbertApril 20, 2024TweetIn honor of Ebertfest's 25th anniversary this year, we have compiled excerpts from some of the most memorable screenings at our film festival over the years. Click on each bol... More »
Festivals & AwardsOmer M. MozaffarApril 19, 2024TweetFor nearly a quarter century, the Chicago Palestine Film Festival has showcased film gems by or about Palestinians. One of the largest global populations of Palestinians... More »
FeaturesTim GriersonApril 19, 2024TweetAndy Kaufman doesn’t want you to watch his biopic. At the start of “Man on the Moon,” Kaufman (played by Jim Carrey) appears on screen, addressing us directly, using the squiggly voic... More »
ReviewsPeyton RobinsonApril 19, 2024TweetMinhal Baig’s “We Grown Now” is a film masterfully tied to the emotive potential of place. A period piece centered in Cabrini-Green in the early '90s, the film is as Chicago bor... More »
ReviewsSimon AbramsApril 19, 2024TweetWill there ever be a version of “Rebel Moon—Part 2: The Scargiver” that makes the movie and its franchise seem essential? Director and co-writer Zack Snyder has already tried to wh... More »
ReviewsMatt Zoller SeitzApril 19, 2024TweetSet in 1992 in the northernmost United States, where criminals run drugs and guns over the border with Canada, "Blood for Dust" is a hard, nasty crime thriller about hard, nas... More »
ReviewsRobert DanielsApril 19, 2024Tweet“Dusk for a Hitman” is a husk of a great film. Director Raymond St-Jean has a sturdy central character—though the crime drama is based on the real life of Montreal fixer Donald L... More »
ReviewsPeter SobczynskiApril 19, 2024TweetSay what you will about “Stress Positions,” the new indie comedy that marks the feature debut of writer-director-costar Theda Hammel: it's not overly consumed with coming acros... More »