RescueFest Opens with Restoration of Steve Buscemi’s Wonderful “Trees Lounge” | Festivals & Awards
“Trees Lounge,” a movie that Roger Ebert called “the most accurate portrait of the daily saloon drinker I have ever seen” is going to open…
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Welcome to the Family captures the chaos and freshness of one of Hollywood’s most memorable franchises | Books
An author must approach a subject on their own terms to find the appropriate tone for the story being told. For example, you expect a…
Palm Springs Film Festival Announces 2026 Lineup | Festivals & Awards
The 2026 Palm Springs Film Festival has announced the 169 films that make up its 2026 program, including 53 premieres. The event unfolds from January…
Focus on female filmmakers: Tamara Kotevska on “The Tale of Silyan” | Interviews
A few years ago, the Macedonian film “Honeyland” made history as the first documentary to be nominated in the categories of Best International Feature Film…
Villain: For Good | Goodbye
★★★ A year later, it seems legitimate to consider Jon M. Chu’s project Villain: Part One a resounding success. Not content with defying gravity at…
Join Chaz Ebert at the Critic’s Cut 2025 event at FACETS | Chaz’s diary
RogerEbert.com Editor Chaz Ebert will appear on FACETS this Thursday, December 4, alongside host Lee Shoquist, filmmaker Bing Liu (“Minding the Gap”) and critic Michael…
Focus on short films: Off the Face of the Earth (with Michael Pantozzi) | Short films in brief
Michael Pantozzi’s “Off The Face of the Earth” opens with a lonely photographer, Tim (Pantozzi), struggling to find the courage to delete his social media…
The Unloved, Part 144: River Queen | The unloved
The Mal-Aimé is 12 years old today. To mark the occasion, I chose a film that I think the world has forgotten and that few…
What I Know is What I Am: Jimmy Cliff (1944-2025) | Tributes
Anyone who found themselves at a checkout in May 2003 may have had the opportunity to leaf through Weekly Entertainmentafter spotting the enticing cover: The…
felt more than heard: Nathan Johnson on composing his third film “Knives Out,” “Wake Up Dead Man” | Interviews
Nathan Johnson composed the music for all three of Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out” mysteries, but for each of them, they start from scratch. While the…