Top 20 Films of 2024
If you had told me at the beginning of 2024 that I would be ending the year no longer working for RogerEbert.com, having left on good terms to work full-time […]
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Indie Outlook Picks the 2022 Nominees
The more one is aware of how politicized award seasons are, the less one cares about who actually wins. Last year’s Oscar telecast was such a travesty that it left […]
CIFF 2018: “The Hate U Give” and “Widows” on the Red Carpet
A “Starr” is truly born in “The Hate U Give,” George Tillman Jr.’s riveting screen adaptation of Angie Thomas’ bestselling book, which was published only last year. Amandla Stenberg turns […]
Love is Blind in “The Lobster”
You know those nightmares that you start laughing at the instant you wake up? They are so illogical and silly that you end up snickering once you try describing them […]
All Things Shining in Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life”
Four years ago this month, Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. I published the following piece at HollywoodChicago.com on June 3, 2011. “Where is […]
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