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Home » film criticism

Tag: film criticism

Posted inFilm

Remembering Andrea Gronvall

by Aimee Levitt September 11, 2019August 18, 2021

Farewell to a Reader contributor and much-valued colleague

Posted inFilm

Writer A.S. Hamrah on the crisis in film criticism

by Anne Elizabeth Moore November 26, 2018August 18, 2021

The new essay collection The Earth Dies Streaming collects his work from 2002 to 2018.

Posted inBlogs

Academy Awards 2018: The Oscar nominees

by Steve Heisler January 23, 2018August 18, 2021

Reader reviews of the top films

Posted inArts & Culture

Dave Kehr returns with another indispensable collection of film criticism

by Ben Sachs November 29, 2017August 18, 2021

University of Chicago Press issues Movies That Mattered, a follow-up to the longtime Reader staffer’s 2011 book When Movies Mattered.

Posted inBlogs

Lights out at The Dissolve

by J.R. Jones July 9, 2015August 18, 2021

The Dissolve, Pitchfork Media’s movie site, is no more

Out in Oak Park, Steve James has cultivated an unassuming life—one that reflects his approach to filmmaking.
Posted inFilm

Reluctant auteur Steve James on life and Life Itself

by Ben Sachs July 2, 2014August 18, 2021

Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Steve James discusses his life in the Chicago suburbs and his new film on Roger Ebert, Life Itself.

Posted inBlogs

A conversation with Brazilian film critic Franthiesco Ballerini (part two)

by Ben Sachs November 15, 2013August 19, 2021

The conclusion of a far-ranging conversation with a film critic and historian based in Sao Paulo

Posted inBlogs

Further thoughts about Frances Ha and its supermodels

by Ben Sachs June 5, 2013August 19, 2021

Noah Baumbach’s entertaining new comedy pays tribute to 60s French New Wave films, but to what end?

Posted inBlogs

An interview with Dan Sallitt, director of The Unspeakable Act

by Ben Sachs May 17, 2013August 19, 2021

Talking with the filmmaker and former Reader contributor about his work

Posted inBlogs

Thumbs upward: Roger Ebert, 1942-2013

by J.R. Jones April 5, 2013August 19, 2021

On the late movie critic and literary adventurer

Posted inBlogs

How Roger Ebert encouraged me

by Ben Sachs April 5, 2013August 19, 2021

A personal reminiscence about the late Chicago film critic

Posted inBlogs

Is there an alternative to being mentally ill?

by Ben Sachs June 1, 2012August 19, 2021

A short consideration of living with bipolar disorder

Posted inBlogs

Feeling ambivalent about Polisse . . . for now

by Ben Sachs May 29, 2012August 19, 2021

Feeling ambivalent about the recent French drama Polisse. But how will I feel in three decades?

Posted inBlogs

Reader film criticism, in focus at last

by J.R. Jones March 26, 2012August 19, 2021

The Reader debuts an alphabetical database of its huge long-review catalog

Posted inBlogs

Tomato catch-up

by J.R. Jones November 23, 2011August 19, 2021

Muppets fans rage against the Reader‘s ho-hum movie review.

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