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The following article contains all of the bios and headshots for RogerEbert.com’s Black Writers Week writers and participants of 2023.—The Editors EDITOR-In-CHIEF CHAZ EBERT   Chaz Ebert is the CEO of Ebert Digital LLC, which publishes the movie review site, Rogerebert.com. She produces television and movies, and co-founded the Ebertfest Film Festival, now in its 22nd […]

Today, Juneteenth National Independence Day (which was made an official federal holiday by President Biden in 2021), marks the kick-off of our third Black Writers Week. Our celebration this week includes film and television, but also other aspects of the African-American experience. The Academy of Motion Pictures Museum in Los Angeles  has extended their inaugural exhibit: Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971 

Hip-Hop, born 50 years ago in the South Bronx, has become the most popular music genre in the world. It has also become a global phenomenon influencing and impacting almost every industry, especially movies. Today’s evolution of cinema owes a great deal to this somewhat unacknowledged partnership, especially this year. There has always been an

The first episode of “Secret Invasion” begins with a voiceover from Talos (Ben Mendelsohn) waxing poetic about what the existence of Skrulls could mean for Earth. He brings forth the question: “What if the ones closest to us, the ones we’re trusted our whole lives, were someone else entirely. What if they weren’t even … human?”

“Fresh Kills” stands tall alongside the best post-“Godfather” gangster movies, and it stands apart because of how it focuses on the wives, girlfriends, and daughters of organized crime in a genre that more often pushes them to the margins. Small in scale but rich in character and incident (and brutal violence), it’s the debut feature by

Let’s say you want to watch “Adipurush,” a new Indian mythological action-fantasy, without thinking so much about what came before it. You want to enter the theater with as little baggage as possible, despite the associations that come with the marquee-topping Prabhas, star of both S.S. Rajamouli’s trend-setting “Baahubali” period action fantasies. Maybe you want

Overseen and conceived by the Russo Brothers of Marvel fame, the “Extraction” films are an example of a dwindling breed: the big-budget, super-violent adventure. Whether the main character is named John Rambo, Jason Bourne or John Wick, he’s a variant on a type: the prolific killer who’d prefer not to kill anymore but keeps getting pushed back into it. He has a tragic

Within a single 21-minute sequence in “Extraction 2,” Chris Hemsworth’s hero character Tyler Rake takes Netflix viewers from the bottom of an erupting and overflowing prison, through a riot packed with fire, explosions, and dozens of ferocious stunt performers, into a breakneck car-chase in the woods, and onto the top of a speeding train, where he

At its best, Pixar is unbeatable, making clever, charming, and brightly original films to touch the heart and spark the imagination. And so it’s been dispiriting to see the animation studio behind such emotive triumphs as “Toy Story,” “Ratatouille,” “Up,” and “Inside Out”—among the best films of their respective years, bar none—recently fall short of

“We can’t all die first” is an excellent tagline perfectly fulfilled by Tim Story’s “The Blackening,” an ode to horror parodies like “Scary Movie.” This film’s comedy, characters, and commentary will be hilarious to all audiences but scratch a familiar itch among Black viewers. Of all of the film-watching customs within the Black community, shouting at and