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It’s not too much of an exaggeration to compare “The Staircase” to “Citizen Kane” in the way it impacted its form. Modern true crime docu-series like “The Keepers,” “Making a Murderer,” and “The Jinx” owe a...

“Dietland” is a lot. There are intimate scenes of women quietly asserting their worth, and bodies falling from the sky, and a sex tiger who’s also something like a life coach. Sometimes it’s animated for a...

Let’s say you had to leave home. You have to leave for a great job, one that would ostensibly bring pride to your family and fellow countrymen. You might not see them for a long time....

This special edition of Thumbnails seeks to give various film critics a spotlight, compiling conversations with the pundits whose opinions and insights we value. Click here to view our full critics roundtable (pictured above) at last month’s Ebertfest...

A friend’s father died a short while just before I made this and it made me think about the things we miss, who we become while people turn away from us, for a moment or forever....

In September, 1983, Tami Oldham Ashcraft and her fiance, Richard Sharp, were hired to take a 44-foot yacht on a 4,000-mile journey from Tahiti to San Diego. About halfway through their cross-Pacific journey, they ran into...

There’s a scene near the end of the first episode of “Pose” when a young man auditions for an elite dance school. As it begins, it’s “Flashdance”—a row of stuffy dance experts, tucked behind featureless tables;...

At first, I have to admit to being put off by the characters of HBO’s “Succession,” a new series about a wealthy white family of power players torn apart by drama and disappointment. But it’s the kind...

Video games, by their very nature, are rarely about consequences. The vast majority of them are built around an escalating concept of trial and nature. As the game-inspired “Edge of Tomorrow” made clear in its alternate...

A tight-fisted sci-fi film conceded with technology’s invasion into our well-being, “Upgrade” is about a man who receives a secret experimental computer chip after he is paralyzed in the same incident that killed his wife. A chip...