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Barry Jenkins on Adapting James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk, The Film’s Timeliness and more
Nell Minow
Telling Their Stories: Stephan James and KiKi Layne on If Beale Street Could Talk
Brian Tallerico
Thumbnails 6/8/20
Matt Fagerholm
Life, the Movie: Why Documentary Filmmaking Should Return to, You Know, Documenting Stuff
Matt Zoller Seitz
Black Harvest Film Festival 2024: Black Table, Rising Up at Night, The Weekend, Jimmy
Brandon Towns
Black Harvest Film Festival 2024 Preview
Robert Daniels
Hollywood & The March on Washington: When Fame Overcame Fear
Bijan Bayne
Goodbye to a Chicago Legend: Sergio Mims (1955-2022)
The Editors
The Film That Changed Harrison Ford’s Career: On the 20th Anniversary of K-19: The Widowmaker
Robert Daniels
Mr. Soul! Wins 2022 Peabody Award
The Editors
Bright Wall/Dark Room January 2022: Place Cliché by Nathaniel Missildine
The Editors
An Inside Look: Mr. Soul! to Stream Live Sunday, October 17th
The Editors
Melissa Haizlip’s Mr. Soul! to Premiere on HBO Max on August 22nd
The Editors
Send It Back: How Roadrunner Fails Anthony Bourdain
Marya E. Gates
Cannes 2021: The French Dispatch, JFK Revisited, Three Floors
Ben Kenigsberg
Mr. Soul!: A Case Study in Indie Film Distribution
Melissa Haizlip
Genius: Aretha Goes Surface Deep on the Queen of Soul
Roxana Hadadi
Mr. Soul! Nominated for Three NAACP Image Awards, Debuts Exclusive Music Video for Show Me Your Soul by Robert Glasper and Lalah Hathaway
The Editors
Amend: The Fight for America Educates Netflix Audiences on 14th Amendment
Robert Daniels
Mr. Soul! Nominated for Outstanding Debut Feature at Cinema Eye Honors
The Editors
Mr. Soul! Extended in Virtual Theaters Through September 24th
Chaz Ebert
RogerEbert.com Premieres the Theatrical Trailer and Poster for Melissa Haizlip’s Documentary Mr. Soul!
The Editors
Upholding Black Voices: An Annotated Table of Contents
The Editors
The Best Scores of the Decade
Charlie Brigden
The Best Films of the 2010s
The Editors
Doris Day: 1922-2019
Carrie Rickey
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: March 28, 2019
Brian Tallerico
Mr. Soul! Screens for Free Thursday, February 21st at the Apollo Theater
The Editors
30 Minutes On: “If Beale Street Could Talk”
Matt Zoller Seitz
Roma, Vice, Black Panther Win Big at 24th Critics’ Choice Awards
Sarah Knight Adamson
Nell Minow’s Top Ten Films of 2018
Nell Minow
Tomris Laffly’s Top Ten Films of 2018
Tomris Laffly
Odie Henderson’s Top Ten Films of 2018
Odie Henderson
Brian Tallerico’s Top Ten Films of 2018
Brian Tallerico
The Ten Best Films of 2018
The Editors
Sharing the Weight: Barry Jenkins on If Beale Street Could Talk
Brian Tallerico
A Look Back at the 2018 Indie Memphis Film Festival
Sheila O'Malley
My List of Movies to See Before the End of 2018
Chaz Ebert
60 Minutes on: “The Hate U Give”
Matt Zoller Seitz
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: October 4, 2018
Brian Tallerico
2018 Fall Movie Preview: 10 Films We’re Excited About
Nick Allen
TIFF 2018: If Beale Street Could Talk, Widows
Brian Tallerico
The 20 Most Exciting World Premieres of TIFF 2018
Brian Tallerico
PROJECT INVOLVE/Ebert Fellow Melissa Haizlip Wins Audience Award with her film Mr. SOUL! at AFI DOCS
The Editors
Mr. SOUL! to Screen at AFI DOCS on June 16th
Chaz Ebert
Thumbnails Special Edition: Critics in the Spotlight
Chaz Ebert
PBS Press Tour Spotlights Little Women
Jana Monji
Genuine Satisfaction: Stephen Cone on “Princess Cyd”
Matt Fagerholm
Photo Gallery: Roger Ebert Induction Ceremony
Chaz Ebert
Netflix’s Admirable “Dear White People” is Rough Around the Edges
Vikram Murthi
Thumbnails 4/12/17
Matt Fagerholm
If We Picked the Winners 2017: Best Documentary
Omer M. Mozaffar
Eroding the Excuses: David Oyelowo on “A United Kingdom”
Matt Fagerholm
Michael Phillips, Anthony Hemingway, Vanessa Morrison and Floyd Norman Honored with AAFCA Awards
Jana Monji
All Your Buried Corpses are Now Beginning to Speak: Raoul Peck on “I Am Not Your Negro”
Matt Fagerholm
The RogerEbert.com Interviews of 2016
The Editors
The Individual Top Tens of 2016
The Editors
AAFCA Hails 2016 As The Best Year For Blacks In Cinema
Chaz Ebert
Art Cuts Through Tyranny: Zoe Kazan on “The Monster”
Brian Tallerico
Lucky 13 Must-See Films of 2016
Chaz Ebert
World-Class Acting: On Joan Crawford and “Sudden Fear”
Sheila O'Malley
Always The Greatest: Remembering Muhammad Ali
The Editors
Sometimes It Snows in April: Images of Prince
Angelica Jade Bastien
Sundance 2016: Being American
Hunter Harris
My Sister Adele (1949-2016)
Chaz Ebert
Paste Magazine Interview with Chaz Ebert
The Editors
TV Review: Martin Scorsese’s “The 50 Year Argument”
Brian Tallerico
Interview: William Friedkin on “The People vs. Paul Crump”
Donald Liebenson
Thumbnails 4/3/14
Sam Fragoso
Alfre Woodard: Wait and See
Dan Callahan
Thumbnails 8/20/2013
The Editors
How I am a Roman Catholic
Roger Ebert
Attacks on ‘Roger & Me’ completely miss point of film
Roger Ebert
Don’t know why there’s no sun up in the sky
Kartina Richardson
Hugh Hefner has been good for us
Roger Ebert
Brando was a rebel in the movies, a character in life
Roger Ebert
A Family Tree Grows in Spike Lee’s “Crooklyn”
Roger Ebert
Denzel Washington Puts Power Behind Oratory
Roger Ebert
Whoopi Goldberg: “The Color Purple”
Roger Ebert
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