The Chicago Critics Film Festival returns with over two dozen Chicago premieres, along with three anniversary screenings, and incredible special guests. Tickets are already going fast.
The stars stayed home in support of the strike, but the below-the-line talent was a reminder of how many talented people are behind every movie.
A look at the history of films like Jawbreaker, Heathers, Poison Ivy, Wild Things, and more.
The book encompasses both sharp analysis and detailed accounts of what Robert Warshow would call her direct experiences of film.
A look at the entire career of Daniel Day-Lewis and how his work in "Phantom Thread" feels like the perfect finale.
A critic considers the death of his father in light of cinema's handling of the end of life.
Writer/director Michael Almereyda on adapting the sci-fi play "Marjorie Prime" for his latest idiosyncratic project.
The best of the 2016-17 TV season in Emmy ballot form.
A TV critic's picks for the best TV of 2015-16.
Why "The Revenant" was hard for me; Joanna Coates and Daniel Metz on "Amorous"; Scorsese's "The Age of Innocence"; Horror films are scarier than in the past; Teaching VR filmmaking.
A chronological commentary celebrating the performances of Gena Rowlands.
Moira Walley-Beckett’s dreary STARZ series borrows many of its melodramatic clichés from Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan.”
A review of HBO's "Show Me a Hero" with Oscar Isaac, Catherine Keener, Alfred Molina, Winona Ryder, Bob Balaban, and Jon Bernthal.
An essay on the "Before" series; Quality undistributed films; Art that defines generations; Negative reviews of best pictures nominees; The failings of RoboCop.
As Roger Ebert noted in February, film festivals have become so ubiquitous that there's almost certainly one within driving distance of most film fans in the US. And lots of them are sprouting world-wide. Three years ago, I'd pitched Roger with an "FFC" piece on the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. He advised that I provide a sense of the town and its atmosphere, the people, as well as what the festival itself was like.
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