Indie Outlook Picks the 2024 Nominees
With the Chicago Film Critics Association announcing the winners of their annual awards this evening, I figured that I might as well publish my annual list of the great work […]
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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 […]
Top 20 Films of 2019: Part II
Though my love of cinema still dwarfs my appetite for television, the increasing timidity of Hollywood studios combined with the creative risks undertaken by streaming platforms has caused 2019 to […]
180 Essential Films by Female Directors
Yesterday, Greta Gerwig became the fifth woman ever to be nominated for Best Director at the Academy Awards. This richly deserved achievement arrives 41 years after Lina Wertmüller made history […]
Something Rare and Sacred: Elvira Lind’s “Bobbi Jene”
What constitutes an out-of-body experience for moviegoers? For me, it’s when a film transports me so entirely into the life of the person onscreen that I feel as if I […]
Theodore Collatos on “Tormenting the Hen”
There are two gorgeous landscape shots during the end credits of Theodore Collatos’ “Tormenting the Hen” that I assumed were still images upon first glance. It wasn’t until I peered […]
Netflix Discoveries: “In Bloom” and “Wet Bum”
Ever since I purchased a Blu-ray player that enables me to stream content from Netflix directly onto my TV, I have spent many an evening searching for titles—primarily foreign and […]
Top 20 Films of 2015: Part II
To demonstrate just how spectacular a year it has been for film, this Top 10 list is followed by three “special honorable mentions,” which should be considered a tie for […]
Deborah Kampmeier on “SPLit”
Deborah Kampmeier’s “SPLit” is an arrestingly raw howl of fury at the global stigmatization of female sexuality. It is also a deeply haunting portrait of one young woman’s internal growth, […]
Bel Powley Amazes in “The Diary of a Teenage Girl”
There are about a million or so ways Marielle Heller’s “The Diary of a Teenage Girl” could’ve flown clear off the rails. While leaving the screening room, I ran into […]
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