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After 10 long days and an endless stream of films, the 2017 edition of the Sundance Film Festival came to a close with Saturday’s awards ceremony. It’s been a ‘Dance for the books on several accounts: mainstream politics overtook...

If you've seen that viral video of a Langur monkey-shaped camera that caused a troop of monkeys to go into mourning, be sure to catch the new PBS Nature miniseries, "Spy in the Wild" that begins on February 1. The series is produced by the...

My parents once took me to a gun shop in Florida on a family vacation. The shop was tucked away in a small, squalid neighborhood torn from the pages of an Elmore Leonard novel, all wiry palm trees stretching up into the white-blue sky and shattered...

Medium Popcorn (Ni**as Spoiling Movies) is a weekly podcast where, as the title bluntly lays out, two black guys have a spirited, detailed conversation about a movie they’ve just seen. Luckily, those two guys, Justin Brown and Brandon Collins,...

At a ceremony in Los Angeles on Feb. 4, Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips will receive the African American Film Critics Association’s Roger Ebert Award. He will be joining the ranks of previous honorees Justin Chang (Variety,...

The winners for this year’s Sundance Film Festival were announced last night during a ceremony in Park City. Below you can find a complete list of the awards, along with links to our reviews of select films. U.S. Grand Jury Prize:...

There was always something a touch withdrawn and reserved about the French actress Emmanuelle Riva. She was clearly a serious person, and she always kept her personal life and decisions as private as possible. In her late 80s, when she was nominated...

The city of Los Angeles was given a special close-up in this year's Sundance roster, albeit in different shades from writer/directors: Brett Haley's "The Hero" presented it as a type of "La La Land" with his Sam Elliott tribute vehicle; Michelle...

Actors rise and fall on the national scene. They have their moments, and then they move out of the spotlight. Few actors in the history of film had the longevity of John Hurt, who passed today at the age of 77. For me, he was just always there. From...

Editor's note: Emma Piper-Burket is one of three recipients of the Sundance Institute's Roger Ebert Fellowship for Film Criticism for 2017. Steven Ellison has created the first midnight masterpiece of the 21st century. Not for the...