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Serving on the U.S. Documentary Jury at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival (January 18-28) was an enlightening experience. Sundance, the prestigious festival started by Robert Redford, is one of the few film festivals that gives as much weight...

This year’s twentieth anniversary of Ebertfest (Roger Ebert’s Film Festival), our annual festival in conjunction with the University of Illinois, College of Media, at the Virginia Theater, will be dedicated to its namesake and co-founder, Roger Ebert, and to our...

“Go warn the children of God of the terrible speed of mercy.” — Flannery O’Connor, The Violent Bear it Away  “The Bad Batch” is an American cinema masterwork, one of the best films of the year,...

The first time we meet Martin Crane in “Frasier,” he is supremely grumpy. An army vet, Martin has been forced to retire from the Seattle police force due to a gunshot wound to the hip. Unable...

Alan Ball’s “Here and Now” is a frustrating mess, a show that struggles to find its own identity and fills that black hole with pretentious twaddle about our national unease in 2018 and a sense of...

We asked our three Ebert Fellows to share their thoughts on their Sundance 2018 experience. It was a pleasure and an honor to work with these passionate young writers, and it’s doubtful this is the last...

Matt writes: The 2018 Sundance Film Festival may be complete, but our cinematic year is just getting started. Check out our table of contents for the full coverage of festival selections to look for in theaters...

He will likely be most often remembered as Frasier Crane’s irascible but lovable father Martin on the hit NBC show “Frasier,” a performance that earned John Mahoney two Emmy nominations and two Golden Globe nominations. Serving...

Very few of the films or TV shows I write about are as fascinating and full of unruly life as the encounters I have every day in the city. New York is an immense, honeycombed theater...

Let’s go out on a limb and predict that February 4, 2018 will be seen as a watershed moment in the history of moving pictures. That was the SuperBowl Sunday when Netflix released the third entry...