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The following reviews were written by Kinnedy Broughton, Dyana Daniels and Messiah Young, all Chicago high school students, as part of Columbia College Chicago's Columbia Links journalism program for high school students. RogerEbert.com has...

Taken as history lesson, tribute or some hybrid of the two, the HBO doc “Mavis!” is the rare type of success story that doesn’t put its subject on a pedestal. Here, the art form is deconstructed and the artist, singer Mavis...

The big Oscar winners on Sunday night? Leonardo DiCaprio, Pulitzer-winning journalism, almost anyone who worked behind the scenes on “Mad Max: Fury Road” and the Girl Scouts.The unfortunate losers? Sylvester Stallone, ceremony...

Every movie lover has their own list of directors whose new works automatically involve a trip to the multiplex, no questions asked. There are the names obligatory for most like Scorsese, Fincher, Nolan or Spielberg. Another filmmaker for this list...

When filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer was played off the stage after winning Best Documentary at the 2016 Film Independent Spirit Awards, he asked me to publish his prepared acceptance speech. Here it is...The Indonesian genocide began 50 years ago...

Scheduled a day prior to the Oscars, the Film Independent Spirit Awards exists to honor cinematic achievements often unacknowledged by the Academy. Their nominees are ideally comprised of small-budgeted passion projects fueled by raw artistry, and...

In a move that must offer a great deal of comfort to people who toil on lost causes everywhere, the attempt to make a movie star out of Ryan Reynolds finally struck gold with "Deadpool." Its $135-million opening weekend washed away pyrite memories...

"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood."—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1963I, too, share Dr. King's...

There was a time when a sequel to 2000’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” would have been a major cinematic event. After all, Ang Lee’s film not only won four Oscars but is the highest-grossing foreign language film of all...

Food documentaries seem to be almost as plentiful nowadays as new restaurant openings. For all the grousing we U.S. citizens do about jobs and the economy, almost every major urban area in the country seems to have a thriving, and in some cases,...