- Wandering the hallways from Marienbad to the Overlook
- What makes a movie a "classic"?
- Hitchcockian chills
- Tell me a story... or don't
- What the hell's happening in The Happening?
- Action: Steven Spielberg & the need for speed
- Film criticism: It's not just a job, it's an adventure
- To spoil or not to spoil? (Don't worry.)
- Sex and the City: Girls do poop!
- Poetry in motion -- and it rhymes, too
- Neuro-cinema turns brains to zombie mush!
- Temple of Doom: Bang a gong, sing a song
- Whiplash: Indiana Jones and the Lowered Expectations
- Star-struck: Movie criticism or astrology?
- The Narnicles of Chronia: Prince Capsicum
- Movies too personal to share with an audience
- Highbrow, lowbrow, middlebrow?
- Belatedly, Iron Man
- The Greed for Speed
- Seeing behind the images: Standard Operating Procedure
- Mishima: Blood cult
- Prepping for Errol Morris's Standard Operating Procedure
- Autopsy of a scene: The Act of
Seeing with One's Own Eyes
- The Seitz-geist
- Matt Zoller Seitz: Rocking the House
- The Uncertainty Principle (or, The Easy Read)
- Local hero
- Overheard exposition, Part II
- Wi-Fried in Urbana
- Bill Forsyth: "Great"-ness
- Shoot the paparazzo
- Ebertfest 2008: Springing forward
- Ebertfest 2008: The year without a Roger?
- The Hollywood studio mentality in one paragraph
- Is Judd Apatow John Hughes? (Answer: No)
- The Big Kahuna Gets Lai'd
- Movies that allow you some breathing room
- Robert De Niro and the rubber chicken
- Judd Apatow: When Penis Met Vagina...
and the re-invention of romantic comedy
- There Will Be Blood: Sculpting in time
- Ebert's back in the saddle!
- De-Boulderized
- Boulderizing
- The Apatow schlub: Too ugly for the girl?
- Screwballs and grace notes
- Chigurh: It's all about the money
- The Telluride legend of Richard Widmark
and the art of entertainment
- The punk-est thing since the Ramones
- No God for Anton Chigurh?
- When vaginas attack
- Movie critics: Pros and cons
- Simply the worst
- Glengarry Bear Stearns
- Funny Games: Three real-life sequels
- Chop Shop: Of hopes and hubcaps
- Arthur C. Clarke: Do aliens dream
of anthropomorphic gods?
- Dr. Haneke's diagnosis
- Welcome to the experiment
- The reviews are in: Let the Funny Games begin!
- Paranoid Park: A Beaver State of mind
- Vegas, baby, yeah!
- David Mamet says he's not a brain-dead liberal anymore
- The Monument Valley: Music as film criticism
- Your User's Guide to Movie Violence
- Fassbinder or NPR?
- Robert Downey Jr. plays it black
- IFC signs pact with
devil Blockbuster
- What we think we think we know (about movies)
- The BJ
- Movie dialog that leaps off the page
- Glen Hansard slags the Once DVD cover
- Jonathan Rosenbaum on the life of a critic
- Anne Boleyn vs. Abbie Hoffman vs. the Nazis
- No Country, under the skin
- Coens take Oscars for words and picture
- Tonight (or Why I Don't Make Oscar Predictions)
- How to Give Your Oscar Speech
- Juno about the fuzzier Oscars? Presenting... The Muriels
- Dina Martina's Oscar Entertaining Party Hints!
- Dina Martina's Tried-and-True Oscarrific Recipe Blog-h'ors-d'oeuvres!
- The Signal: What to do (and not to do) when the world ends
- The Great(ness) Debate:
Flesh, blood, Day-Lewis (and Oscar)
- Biggest Acting, Best and Worst: Over the top, Ma!
- A Journey to the End of Taste
- America's Funniest Undead Videos
- Oh, go ahead and jump
- Black humor: Stepin Fetchit to Richard Pryor
to Tyler Perry (Part II)
- Directorama: Ozu, Ford & Kurosawa (and Ichikawa?)
- Alien vs. Predator, Chigurh vs. Plainview
- Jack Nicholson explains the Oscars for you
- Stepin Fetchit to Denzel Washington (Part I)
- Roy Scheider (1932-2008)
- Don't let this affect your opinion of Juno...
- The Cheeseburger Phone
- Best and Worst Oscar Actors
- Are Movies Going to Pieces?
- "I'm F***ing Matt Damon": A critical analysis
- 1 Julianne Moore + 1 Mark Ruffalo + 1 movie:
Putting them all together
- Pulp Fiction: Nothing serious?
- No Country for Old Manhood
- Moviegoers who feel too much
- Burt-Man Begins; Black History Mumf
- Once is in!
- Bardem, Ledger and the truth about movie acting
- Is Once ineligible for Best Original Song Oscar?
- Three kinds of violence: Zodiac, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood
- Werner Herzog analyzes Juno
- Heath Ledger, 1979-2008
- And the best Oscar nomination goes to...
- Weeny Todd
- Why Jonny Greenwood's score wasn't nominated
- Jumping the snark: The Juno backlash (backlash)
- Bracing for a gala full of low-wattage drainage
- War Is Over (If You Want It)
- My Cap'n, Dusty Cohl (1929 - 2008)
- Blurb-a-thon 2007
- The Dirty Harry scene
- Euphoria in a matter of seconds
- Inverting a Zodiac code
- The Rest is Noise
- Consensus and the Big Film Poll Blowout of 2007
- Listen in
- Two Python lines:
- Sick days
- My 10 best list: the movie (WGA strike/Antonioni edition)
- IndieWIRE crix poll: American blood, blood, blood
- Once (revised and sexed-up)
- Moments Out of Time 2007
- Why the Helvetica is Trajan the movie font?
- "No Country for Old Men" towers over 2007
- For Your Consideration: Anton Chigurh, Supporting Actor
- Scanners' 2007 Exploding Head Awards (Part 1)
- Your brain, dog butts, and the quantum movie
- Corliss wonders: Do Film Critics Know Anything?
- LAFCA: There Will Be... more 2007 critics awards
- Ben Horne's "Twin Peaks" set snaps
- Stages of a Cinephile
- Short film blog-a-thon
- Opening Shots: Le Samourai
- Southland Tales: No sparkle, no motion
- I'm Not There: Ode to Joy
- The slick and the raw
- No Country For Old Men: Out in all that dark
- Mr. Jones' review...
- "I get it!": A hallucinogenic experience and the movies
- One shot: They wrote that
- Ecstatic truth
- CE3K 30 3.0
- What does a movie mean?
- Margot goes round in circles
- Are You An Extra In Your Own Life?
- From the Museum of Outmoded Technology
- The Coen ideology
- Another take on the Coens & "No Country for Old Men"
- No Country for Old Literalists
- Bud Uglly: Back to the Future
- Shocking! Attend the hair of Sweeney Todd
- Written in the Flesh: A Crash Course in David Cronenberg
- Feliz Dias de los Muertos!
- Hidden horrors: Four spine-tingling DVDs
- Corliss's perverse "Top 25 Horror Movies" list
- Kirk/Spock and Dumbledore
- Film noir: Carved in black & white
- The evolution of a hat
- Dexter: Putting it together
- Psycho: Murder in close-up (without bodies)
- Close Up: The movie/essay/dream
- Close-Ups: A free-association dream sequence
- North by Northwest: Long shots as close-ups (Part 1)
- Close-Ups: Blinded by the grin
- Up close and personal: The Close-Up Blog-a-thon
- Blood rights
- Faking the real and unreeling the fake
- How does it feel? Footnote fetishism & "I'm Not There"
- 50 greatest music films ever
- "The Bridge": Legends of the Fall
- "Kite Runner" delayed to protect kids
- The new-er-est "Blade Runner"
- Words and music
- Bordwell & Thompson: Declaration of Principles
- The Golden Age of Cinemania is Now
- Opening Shots: Silent Light
- Opening Shots: Zodiac
- Z is for zed
- Make it a double
- Buñuelathon '07!
- Fear of fauna: Of horses & men & ZOO
- Web > Friends, sex?
- America's Top Pundit: Roger Ebert
- He's Here: The Legend of Pete Seeger
- Elected: 100 Must-See Foreign Films
- TIFF 2007 Wrap: Personal best & indelible images
- TIFF 2007: Stuck in time
- TIFF 2007: Girl of Iran
- Welcome Back, Edelstein
- TIFF 2007: Movie bloggers EXPOSED!
- Plumber's Nightmare: Two cents in "The Fountain"
- TIFF 2007: The Award-Winners
- TIFF 2007: Brian De Palma on the front lines
- TIFF 2007:
Robert Zimmerman Bob Dylan Revisited
- TIFF 2007: The Eastern Inbred Class
- TIFF 2007: The Evil That God Does
- TIFF 2007: What did I know and when did I know it?
- TIFF 2007: The Coens = the essence of movies
- TIFF 2007: Abortion in demand
- TIFF 2007: Cronenberg's knockout punch
- TIFF 2007: It's alive!
- TIFF 2007: Grizzly boy
- TIFF 2007: The rituals of romance
- TIFF 2007: Madmen and lawyers
- TIFF 2007: Coen Brothers update
- TIFF 2007: Casa of Horrors
- TIFF: One day at a time
- Personal note: Off to Toronto!
- Sudden impact
- Directed by David Mamet
- This show could be your life
- Hollywood: Just shut it down
- Kubrick defends himself
- Stanley Kubrick hates you
- More sex, please. We're American.
- Opening Shots: Pan's Labyrinth
- Leonard Maltin: Still "Movie Crazy"
- Another critical voice severed
- Gimme them old-time furrin pictures
- The Sixth Man: A Corleone Family Mystery
- Is it anti-American to like non-English movies?
- Unforgiven: The Discreet Bunch
- The Stepford Critics?
- The 100 Greatest Directors of... what?
- The secret ingredients of a hit movie
- The Bourne Upchuck
- Star Wars: Episode VII -- Resurrecting Mace Windu
- Rock Hudson + Bea Arthur: I have nothing more to say...
- The "Best" Non-English-Language Films (Round 1)
- Holy theology! Holy film!
- Fasten your seatbelts, it's gonna be a bumpy Bourne!
- David Lynch's Ultimate Peaks
- The answer is: Merv, Movies & "Jeopardy"
- "Blade Runner" meets "The Matrix"
- Scorsese at his best: "The Man Who Set Film Free"
- What's in David Lynch's DVD player?
- Mr. Cheney Explains It All For You
- Fanny & Rosenbaum & Bordwell
- Yes, But Is It Art? Part 237
- "There's nothing I like less..."
- Who matters?
- Ebert Strikes Back
- A cinematic (crossword) puzzle
- Godard: "It's all showbiz..."
- The 100 Most Acclaimed Movies of the 20th Century
- The enemy of my enemy is my friend
- Opening Shots: Brazil
- Bergman and Antonioni: Commercial moviemakers
- Bergman: Sawdust and Tinsel?
- Opening Shots: Army of Shadows
- Holy Holes
- Mourning (and assessing) Bergman
- "Blow-Up" corpse pays tribute to Antonioni
- Ingmar Bergman (1918 -2007)
- Words from Deadwood
- The End of "The Road"
- Opening Shots Project Index
- The Shamus, Mr. Shoop, & blogger catch-up
- László Kovács: In Memory
- An unforgivable lapse into tabloid sensationalism (in song)
- Deeper into movies
- Sherman Torgan: In Memory
- Flamers
- "There is no god!!!"
- Wilhelm: The Man and His Scream (1951 - present)
- Waxing Roth: Define "failure"
- With love, from Bay, to you...
- What I learned from Johnny Caspar...
- The Creature from the Black Lagoon (or mud puddle)
- The Hitchens/God challenge & The Atheist Film Fest
- Everything that's wrong with the world in two examples
- The Favoritest Movies (or Everybody Loves Lieblingsfilme)
- Moral relativism & "A Mighty Heart" & July 4
- Edward Yang, 1947 - 2007
- Roger Ebert on Joel Siegel's death
- Shmashmortion in the age of Bush
- An even dumberer list
- The Return of the Movie Answer Man
- The films of Joni Mitchell: A brief retrospective
- The AFI Top 100
- Racial Purity, Part II
- Torture porn: Want popcorn with that?
- David Chase breaks his omerta
- Tony Soprano, Barton Fink & Charles Foster Kane: Whaddaya want?
- Ten Movies That Shook The World
- "The Sopranos": Eighty-Sixed
- "The Sopranos": Closing the door
- Getting "Knocked Up"
- NEWS FLASH: BILL O'REILLY CAUGHT TELLING LIES!
- Theaters try to compete with living rooms
- The 24-second news cycle
- Charles Nelson Reilly, R.I.P.
- Bowie & Marianne Faithfull: "I've Got You Babe"
- 5-25-77: A Geek Odyssey
- 3-D, QT & "DP"
- Bad Waitress (Or, the Wit and Wisdom of Mr. Pink)
- How "Star Wars" changed the world (as we knew it)
- 30th Anniversary Poll: What's your favorite Star War(s)?
- (Kar-) Wai, Oh Why?
- British film Philistines
- A contrarian music video
- A Fan's Notes
- Where I've been
- Flowers from a gigolo
- Charles Has a Licking Problem
- "We can't stop the dancing chicken!": Ebertfest photos #2
- Red eye in the sky
- An insult every 6.8 seconds...
- High rollers and lowlifes
- My Ebertfest 2007 photo blog #1
- "This is not HAL 9000..."
- "This is where he wanted to be, this is where he is..."
- He's putting the Ebert in Ebertfest!
- Return to Twin Peaks
- Greetings from Boulder
- "40 years is not enough" -- Roger Ebert
- The silence of the monks
- Ebertfest '07: "It's his happening and it freaks him out!"
- Bump and Grindhouse
- Chris Rock: Blacks more electable than retarded
- LOST: Schrödinger's Cat
- Crix Nix Kix Flix (Part I)
- A Clockwork Cuckoo
- Don't forget it, Jake: It's Chinatown in Boulder!
- The Huckabees Harangues
- Lust and Death
- Prof. Irwin Corey's Foremostly Authoritative Spring Break Movie Quiz
- Coming to a bad end
- Bow down to Babs
- The Miracle of Trudy Kockenlocker
- Old White Guy Lists
- Revulsion
- Poll: Andrew Sarris and Your Greatest Films of All Time
- Attack of the Giant Amphibian!
- Brokeback Jack and the gay "Departed"?
- What if they didn't spend millions to advertise "Norbit"?
- "The Host" LIVES!
- Hurdy Gurdys and Aqua Velvas: Misc. "Zodiac" fax...
- "Zodiac": Digital and analog
- The Rise and Rise of the Celebritocracy
- What is up with that Seinfeld guy?
- On acting, authenticity and Robert De Niro
- A.O. Scott is on a roll!
- Unchain My Tart
- Opening Shots: 'The Big Animal'
- What is your favorite Oscar-winner of the last 10 years?
- When critics get slashed & butchered
- The Marty Show
- Rob Lowe, Snow White, "Proud Mary" & the Oscars
- How do you solve a problem like the Oscars?
- Queen Victoria in hot pants?
- Pauline and Renata Go Showboating
- Whose fingerprints are on 'Touch of Evil'?
- Blog-a-Thon Post Mortem: Lessons Learned?
- Trash and Art: Critics on/of Pauline Kael
- Contrarianism Blog-a-Thon: Let the perversity begin!
- Which great director is not-so-great?
- Two reviews: "The Lives of Others" & "Climates"
- The 100-Year-Old Contrarian
- A-C-T-I-N-G
- Taste into theory
- 'Fire Walk With Me' and the Lost Language of Code
- The film habits of Homo Portlandia
- Questions for the Academy
- Outguess Ebert on the Oscars
- Watching movies again. And again...
- 'Breaking and Entering' (It's a metaphor)
- Reminder: Contrarianism Blog-a-Thon next week!
- How not to blow your Oscar speech
- Fight of the Century: John Cassavetes vs. Eleanor of Aquitaine
- Just when you thought it was unsafe to go into the water...
- Hannibal Lecter, critic eLectercuted at Super Bowl
- Best movie ad tag line ever?
- Rescuing "articulate" from the Language Police
- Yes, gayer than "Dreamgirls"
- What is your favorite Scorsese Picture?
- The meaning of "articulate"
- Restoring your faith in America
- What was YOUR favorite comedy of 2006?
- Sarah Silverman, critics & the new PC
- Go Inland, young woman!
- Losing control, or ceding control, or not...
- Raping Dakota: From the Sundance resumé movie to "Indie Guignol"
- Take the Lost Highway to the Inland Empire...
- Roger's take on the Oscars
- Obligatory Oscar analysis!
- Mr. Lynch Comes to Washington
- The color of scent
- Bad form
- ANNOUNCING: The Contrarianism Blog-a-Thon: Do the Contrarian (Part III)
- Everything about the Golden Globes in four lines
- Jake Gyllenhaal stops the show!
- Gasp! Choke! As film criticism lay dying...
- Critics and 'crackpots'
- Mr. Contempt
- New Message from Roger
- The Entitled
- Four-star faves for January
- Learning from lists
- Contrarian dispatch: Are critics patronizing Scorsese?
- Up With Contempt!
- Call him "Mr. Contrarian"
- Children of...?
- When is a bloody heart not just a bloody heart?
- Johnie's Broiler, RIP
- Do the Contrarian (Part II)
- Do the Contrarian (Part I)
- Sun-Times publishing server problems -- sorry!
- Odds and
Ends Beginnings for 2007
- The Double-Best of the Year
- Moments Out of Time 2006
- Judd Apatow on Comedy 2006
- 1. Ten 2. Best 3. Lists
- '50 Lost Movie Classics'
- Happy Listmas! Year is Over (If You Want It)
- Drop everything, read this now
- Dreamgirls and Soul Man
- Opening Shots: The 'Burbs
- The Perfect Storm
- Crash!
- Opening Shots: Eyes Wide Shut
- MoMA: Images on ice
- Film Criticism Blog-a-Thon!
- Pearl of the South: A tale of two reviews
- First-Shot Bordwell
- Indie Spirit Awards: Good news & bad news
- Altman: Life beyond the frame
- Robert Altman (1925-2006): Moments
- The Borat release form
- Catherine O'Hara: Queen of Comedy
- Why the Hell It's Funny Or Not, Part 2 or Possibly 3
- Bordwell covers coverage
- The comical jocularity of humorousness
- Polish poetry in motion
- Reality and fiction in 'Borat'
- Film criticism mash-up: Exciting and new!
- Opening Shots: The Girl Can't Help It
- This week: Four 4-star reviews!
- They no like Borat
- Visit the Official Web Kazakhstan (and America)
- Los Dias de Los Muertos: Thoughts on the dead & undead
- Suicide watch
- A presidential fiction
- Flagging Fathers
- 'The Departed' revisited
- Milestones
- A miracle of a movie
- Jim Crow casting?
- A view from 'The Bridge'
- Letting Go of God
- Reviews: Some great lines about movies I haven't yet seen
- Nihilism on Aldrich Street
- All about your parents
- Happy 300 million!
- 'The Departed': Choppy craftsmanship?
- Three new Ebert articles
- Roger Ebert writes from rehab
- The Ultimate Review of "The Departed"
- Putting NYFF in its place
- Study: 'Daily Show' as substantive as network news
- GoodFellas and BadFellas
- Gone missin'
- Borat: Cultural Learnings of Anti-Semitism for Make Benefit Stupid Bigots?
- Loose Canon: Paul Schrader and the end of movies
- Bordwell Does Vancouver
- A.O. Scott's perspective on NYFF
- NYFF? Fuggedaboutit!
- The best American film of the last 25 years?
- That was the fest that was
- White House: Jeff Gannon, yes; Borat, no
- Opening Shots: 'Little Murders'
- What we talk about when we talk about movies (Part 2)
- Torture, '24' and 'Dirty Harry'
- Sven Nykvist, 1922 - 2006
- What we talk about when we talk about film criticism
- The Abode of Chaos: Where we live
- Oh, the 'Idiocracy'!
- Nicole Kidman: David Thomson's plaything
- Gérard Brach, 1927 - 2006
- Toronto Fest award winners
- TIFF: Kids at play
- Brian De Palma and The Pink Dahlia
- Ain't-It-Cool-Times
- TIFF: 'RFK: The Disaster Movie'
- TIFF: Behind the mask of horror
- TIFF: Woolly Bully
- TIFF: Who shot Bush?
- TIFF: Two or three things I've noticed about Toronto
- TIFF: Matters of Life and Death
- TIFF: A-maze-ing
- TIFF: Short cuts
- TIFF: Borat R US
- TIFF: The war over there
- TIFF: What's missing here?
- TIFF: The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
- TIFF: What Is This Thing Called Sex?
- TIFF: Death and the Madre
- TIFF: Tower to nowhere
- TIFF: Monsters
- TIFF: Suicide isn't painless
- Opening night
- Toronto: Beware catalog spoilers!
- Heading to Toronto
- De Palmania!
- Opening Shots: 'Greetings'
- Opening Shots: 'Raw Meat'
- Take the Opening Shots Poll!
- Opening Shots: 'Repo Man'
- Opening Shots: 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'
- 'The Scream': Now more than ever
- Griffin Mill and 'The Return of the Player'
- Joe Lieberman on a Plane: Another dumb story about blogs
- Opening Shots: 'Day for Night'
- 9/11: The Movie
- Opening Shots: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
- Tracing the image #2: The rebirth of 'The Descent'
- Opening Shots: 'Cat People' (1982)
- Famous propaganda
- Don't tell me you didn't see this one coming
- Mise-en-Bob
- Opening Shots: 'Punch-Drunk Love'
- The Birth of a Button (and a Blog)
- Can you get canned for this?
- Nobody knows criticism, Part 2
- High camp: Does it translate?
- The death of film criticism has been greatly exaggerated, Part I
- Preview of Coming Attractions
- Roadkill at 35,000 feet?
- E-mail from Roger
- Title for a Movie
- Borat: For Make Milgram Experiment
- Descent imagery #1
- Say goodbye to this spot
- Best Mel Gibson joke yet
- Take the 'WTC' litmus test
- 'World Trade Center': How political is it?
- Opening Shots: 'A Hard Day's Night'
- Opening Shots: 'Petulia'
- Opening Shots: 'Quills'
- Kubrick and the cosmic zoom
- Chaz has news on Roger's recovery
- Cave paintings: The art of 'The Descent'
- 'The Descent': The deeper ending
- Opening Shots: 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
- 4 for Friday: Ricky Bobby, Descent, Miss Sunshine, Night Listener
- Opening Shots: 'Man Push Cart'
- Oliver Stone: What happened?
- Dr. Bordwell Goes to Hong Kong
- En garde! Blood on film
- Opening Shots: 'The Wire'
- A brief Melification
- NORAD, 9/11 and United 93
- Bin Laden Offers Mel Gibson Anger Management Lessons
- Opening Shots: 'Ghost World'
- Opening Shots: 'Cutter's Way'
- Mad Mel's mouth
- 'The Descent': A horror-thriller for movie freaks
- Opening Shots: 'La Femme Infidel'
- Lunch With David
- Touché, Dupree!
- All apologies (and new reviews)
- Are YOU Kevin Smith's friend?
- Tex Avery: Escape from Alka-Fizz
- Me & Mr. Colbert
- Chasing the image: Barred
- Opening Shots: 'The Rapture'
- Opening Shots: 'Yojimbo'
- Who is the gaucho, amigo?
- Darth Vader goes all Sybil on us...
- The Small (But Equally Profane) Lebowski
- Film history from A to Z...
- Opening Shots: 'Femme Fatale'
- You don't even want to know what a scrunt is...
- Opening Shots: 'Juggernaut'
- Opening Shots: 'Annie Hall'
- Joel Siegel helps Kevin Smith promote 'Clerks II'
- 'Clerks II': Picking at scabrous
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