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This feature is a part of a series on the best films of the 2010s, resulting from our ranked top 25, which you can read here. This is #7.  “Under the Skin” is an immersive, disarming work...

Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy is a masterpiece of high fantasy, a work of fiction that, like the very best examples of the genre, manages to combine enthralling, world-enveloping storytelling and unforgettable characters with themes...

As the decade ends, more of the conversation seems to be about how people watch movies (Netflix vs. theatres) than movies themselves. So we’re going to bring it back to the actual films over the next few...

Just because the official spooky season has drawn to a close, that’s no reason not to gift yourself some incredible off-beat horror for the rest of autumn. Here’s a look at a director whose become synonymous with...

In a franchise that’s all about traveling to the past and tinkering with the timeline to prevent future tragedies from occurring, it makes perfect sense that the latest “Terminator” movie would engage in some revisionist history...

The mere onscreen presence of John Witherspoon guaranteed at least a few moments of genuine pleasure. No matter how bad the film, he could be counted on to steal the spotlight with lines that were as...

The most surprising thing about director/writer/star Edward Norton’s “Motherless Brooklyn” is how drastically it departs from its source. Jonathan Lethem’s National Book award-winning novel focused on a Lionel Essrog (Norton), a detective with Tourette’s Syndrome posing as...

A blazing Autumn sunset quickly upstaged my scheduled conversation with filmmaker Kasi Lemmons last Friday in Chicago. “Let’s take a picture!” she said, and we quickly grabbed our phones to capture a glimpse of the spectacular...

Sandra Schulberg of IndieCollect will present “Cane River,” Horace Jenkins’ recently restored 1982 gem, which screened this past April at Ebertfest, at its historic Los Angeles premiere at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s Film Archive...

We are pleased to announce that Richard Roeper, Roger Ebert’s longtime colleague and cherished co-host on “Ebert & Roeper At The Movies,” will be the latest recipient of the African American Film Critics Association’s (“AAFCA’) Roger Ebert Award. He...