Movies
Asleep in My Palm
Society often ignores those living on its fringes. Thankfully, there are cinematic...
The Unloved, Part 123: Birth
Jonathan Glazer has always skirted the mainstream without becoming part of it. Maybe...
Amelia’s Children
I’m not really sure how genre fans will respond to “Amelia’s Children,” a Portuguese...
Dune: Part Two
The word that will likely be used most often to describe Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune:...
Paul Dano is Ready for His Next Mission
Paul Dano has done so much in a career that's spanned two decades, and he's just...
Danny Boyle Explains What Made Cillian Murphy So Special...
For some viewers, Cillian Murphy’s presence in “Oppenheimer” might have been confusing:...
Oscar Predictions 2024: What Will Win This Year
Unlike most of the Oscar ceremonies over the last decade, the biggest question we’ll...
Eye on the Screen: David Bordwell (1947-2024)
David Bordwell was a teacher who became a friend. He opened my eyes to what cinema...
Comedy is Defiance: Richard Lewis (1947-2024)
Richard Lewis was the first comedian I tried to model myself upon. That’s a nice...
About Dry Grasses
Everybody lies. Whether with malice, for self-preservation, or to spare another’s...
The Internet Will Never Let Russell Crowe Forget Les Miserables
Director Tom Hooper had just won an Oscar for “The King’s Speech” and now he had...
Berlin Film Festival 2024: Honoree Martin Scorsese Honors...
(Pictured: Portraits of Martin Scorsese at the Berlinale Palast. As filmmakers and...
They Shot the Piano Player
Spanish filmmaker Fernando Trueba, who co-directed “They Shot the Piano Player,”...
The Enduring Laughs—and Life—of Harold Ramis
My late husband Roger Ebert noted potential in Harold Ramis from the moment he awarded...
Berlin Film Festival 2024: The Roundup: Punishment, Last...
Not every dispatch has a unifying theme; this one is more of a hodgepodge. Among...
Berlin Film Festival 2024: Who Do I Belong To, Memories...
In Berlin’s Main Competition and its Panorama section are three films centering...
Berlin Film Festival 2024: Demba, The Strangers' Case,...
Syria and Turkey, the Ivory Coast and China, Senegal, and a smidge of America are...
