A great film festival offers movie lovers a wide array of offerings on its opening weekend. Fests like Sundance and Toronto are downright overwhelming in just their first 72 hours, presenting dozens of films from around...

Dubbed “Ambassadors of Compassion” by Chaz Ebert, nine Ebert Fellows graced the first panel of Ebertfest 2017, bringing a human face to the young generation tasked with spreading empathy at a time where there is very...

There’s trash, and then there’s good trash. “Unforgettable” falls into the latter category. Slick, glossy and radiating juicy villainy, it knows exactly what kind of movie it is and goes for it with giddy abandon.The story...

There was a period in the mid- to late 1990s when it seemed as if every other gritty independent film and a few studio wannabes were built around scenes where tough white guys smoke cigarettes, insult...

Certain discontents of contemporary Russia get a fascinating, provocative treatment in Kirill Serebrennikov’s “The Student,” the tale of a high school boy who disrupts his school and home as he falls deeper and deeper into religious...

The Belfast-born writer and director Terry George is most at home in settings where there are troubles, and sorry about the unintentional play on words. With director Jim Sheridan he crafted two of the most searing...

Who exactly is Disney nature documentary “Born in China” for? The obvious answer is baby-animal-loving kids and their parents (sorry, stoners!). But realistically, much of “Born in China,” which revolves around four animal families as they...

“Tramps” director Adam Leon once said something in an interview that I will never forget. While talking about his gritty debut film “Gimme the Loot,” about two young graffiti writers wanting to tag a New York...

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