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Over the last few months, critics and film enthusiasts alike have traversed the country, the world even, without traveling a single mile. Festivals have been reimagined virtually for a reality that prevents us from physically convening....

As I muse about the Oscar race this season, one that has been considerably derailed because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, I start having flashbacks to the 69th Academy Awards held in 1997. That was when, for the...

The Roger Ebert Award, which is presented annually at the Chicago International Film Festival to an emerging filmmaker whose work represents a fresh and uncompromising vision, was received this year by “Memory House,” a highlight of the...

There’s such a thing as a really bad trip and then there’s the frightening, mind-bending experience from a drug named Synchronic, which sends its user to an unknown point in time for seven minutes. Results vary....

Among the best compliments that can be paid to the filmmaking team of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead is to say that their movies are more interesting when you know nothing about them. Leading with that statement...

Here are ten video highlights from the first virtual event of this year’s Ebert Symposium Series, which can be viewed in full here. Titled “The Film Industry in a Time of Change,” the panel was broadcast...

The second of three virtual events for the 2020 Ebert Symposium will stream today, October 22nd, at 5pm CT on the YouTube channel and Facebook page of Ebertfest.  Titled “Documentary Film and Social Change”, the panel will examine documentary film including features,...

Bruce Springsteen is going through an incredibly creative period in his career, especially given he’s been doing this for a half-century. Last year, he released the excellent and underrated “Western Stars,” which was accompanied by a...

Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” is a deliciously unstable comedy. This new installment in the misadventures of Cohen’s ignorant yet fearless Kazakhstani journalist Borat Sagdiyev is filled with risqué (and just plain risky) jokes. Some...

40 years ago, “Ordinary People” changed the way movies think about psychotherapy, grief, Oscar campaigning and Mary Tyler Moore. Not that any of that was new at the time. Even now the movie has a comfort...