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Halfway through Michael Mayer’s “The Seagull,” Boris Trigorin (Corey Stoll) and Nina Zarechnaya (Saoirse Ronan) take a boat out onto the lake. It seems like a perfectly fine time, which is the most that the film...

The movie begins with a startling, intimate sex scene. A hefty middle-aged man is making love with an attractive middle-aged woman. He is avidly concerned with bringing her to orgasm, each one worries that the other...

I still fondly remember those two weeks I spent in Chicago before attending 2010 Ebertfest. Going around here and there in the city during that time, I was constantly excited by many impressive things to absorb...

When the first season of “The Handmaid’s Tale” premiered exactly one year ago today on Hulu, President Donald Trump had already begun inadvertently making America great again. The misogyny he spewed and empowered in his supporters...

For a 160-minute epic that unifies a far-flung superhero universe that took a decade to build, packs 76 characters into one story, and has four to six plotlines cooking at any given time, “Avengers: Infinity War” hangs...

With the conclusion of the 20th Roger Ebert’s Film Festival (Ebertfest), we’ve gathered all of our coverage on this past week’s panels, guests and film presentations. Included is the work of Chaz Ebert, Brian Tallerico, Nick...

Kogonada’s directorial feature debut, “Columbus,” started day three of the 20th annual Roger Ebert Film Festival at the Virginia Theatre. The filmmaker introduced the film on stage just before it began, but kept it short and...

The Roger Ebert Film Festival celebrated its 20-year anniversary with 12 movies, six directed by women. The late 18th Century period drama “Belle” (2013) was directed by British-Ghanain filmmaker Amma Asante, and starred Gugu Mbatha-Raw as...

The typical day at Ebertfest is one that sends attendees down any number of highways and byways, cinematic and otherwise, and provides them with an experience that exposes them to any number of experiences. This was...

“The Devil and Father Amorth” sees director William Friedkin returning to a subject that drove his biggest box-office success, “The Exorcist,” and spawned a seemingly never-ending series of sequels. This time, however, he’s made a documentary that spends...