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Short Films in Focus: Breaking Silence

Short Films in Focus: Breaking Silence

The short documentary “Breaking Silence” focuses on the plight of the deaf community...

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Female Filmmakers in Focus: Nancy Savoca on Household Saints

Female Filmmakers in Focus: Nancy Savoca on Household Saints

Born in the Bronx, filmmaker Nancy Savoca attended film school at New York University's...

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Where’s My Black Girlhood?: The Whitewashing of the Femme Boom

Where’s My Black Girlhood?: The Whitewashing of the Femme...

When I was growing up, the consumption of girlhood on screen looked like “Mean Girls,”...

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The List is Life: On the 30th Anniversary of Schindler's List

The List is Life: On the 30th Anniversary of Schindler's...

Film critics have both the educational blessing and the soul-crushing curse of watching...

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Seasons Greetings from Chaz Ebert and All of Us at RogerEbert.com

Seasons Greetings from Chaz Ebert and All of Us at RogerEbert.com

To All Our Cherished Film Critics, Writing Contributors, Readers and Subscribers:...

#474 December 26, 2023

Matt writes: For our final Ebert Club newsletter of 2023, we are presenting the...

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The Return of 70MM

The Return of 70MM

In this age of multiplexes that boast IMAX, Dolby Cinema and/or RPX auditoriums—large-format,...

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The Best Video Games of 2023

The Best Video Games of 2023

For consumers, it was an incredible year for video games as new and familiar IPs...

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The Crime Is Mine

The Crime Is Mine

Does crime pay? In the world of François Ozon’s fluffy period farce, it certainly...

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Occupied City

Occupied City

Every film is a collection of moving images, but few are as moving as the sights...

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The Boys in the Boat

The Boys in the Boat

When people say “they don’t make movies like that anymore,” this is the kind of...

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Memory

Memory

“Memory,” writer-director Michel Franco’s slippery dementia drama, is the kind of...

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Migration

Migration

As some of you may have noticed, there has been a distinctly avian-related theme...

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All of Us Strangers

All of Us Strangers

The surreal almost supernatural atmosphere of Andrew Haigh's "All of Us Strangers"...

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The Return of Santa Claus: The Movie — The Box Office Bomb Beloved By Brits

The Return of Santa Claus: The Movie — The Box Office Bomb...

"Santa Claus: The Movie" (1985) is back. British company Silver Salt Restoration...

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Upon Reflection: Andrew Haigh on All of Us Strangers

Upon Reflection: Andrew Haigh on All of Us Strangers

“All of Us Strangers” opens with the fittingly ethereal image of its protagonist...

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Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire

Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire

Among this past year’s unexpected synchronicities, there’s now a shared space in...

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The Teachers’ Lounge

The Teachers’ Lounge

It's not easy to make an intense thriller about things that could actually happen....