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When I was in college in Houston, I wrote a piece about film criticism. And while I was at the local library looking for books to research, I discovered The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture...

The end of New York Film Festival press screenings is usually a little more bittersweet. The fall air won’t chill us on the way into the Walter Reade every morning, where anticipation rises like a head...

“Red, White and Blue” is the third episode of Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” series to be screened at the New York Film Festival. It follows “Mangrove” and “Lovers Rock,” the first and second installments respectively. This...

On September 9th, we published Monica Castillo’s four-star review of Maïmouna Doucouré’s debut feature, “Cuties.” Its unflinching portrayal of the sexual exploitation of children resulted in a backlash against the film from some viewers, many of whom had only...

A literally explosive teen drama, “Spontaneous” aims to be a durable, youth-appealing midnight flick in the vein of “Heathers” or “Donnie Darko,” mixing satire, gallows humor, earnest emoting, and nightmarish atmosphere. Adapted by writer/director Brian Duffield from Aaron Starmer’s young adult...

For all of its fantasies, dreams of prosperity, and pursuits of happiness, “Monsterland” looks at America through a lens that alternates between bleak and dreary. The people in this eight-episode Hulu anthology are tired, lonely, abused,...

In the first episode of “The Walking Dead: World Beyond,” AMC’s latest push to expand the Walking Deadiverse and its first to center on teenagers, there’s one fascinating, genre-bending moment. Iris (Aliyah Royale) has rushed, bright-eyed,...

For the third year in a row, the Ebert Symposium at the University of Illinois, College of Media, will focus on vital topical themes about important issues in the media industry and the wider world. The first...

Following last month’s look at stalwart genre stylist John Hyams, now we look at his father, the great and relatively unheralded (though by no means underseen) Peter Hyams. Hyams was one of the guys who never...

Darren Star’s TV shows have long been dismissed as frothy confections interchangeably obsessed with wealth and sex, but they’ve never been boring. With their perpetual angst and recurring bed hopping, “Beverly Hills, 90210” and “Melrose Place”...