Cannes 2025: My Father’s Shadow, Enzo, Dalloway
Normally, for these dispatches, we try to pair films within their respective sections. But Cannes is such a massive undertaking that it feels more apropos to jump from section to…
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Cannes 2025 Video #3: Festival Dispatch with Robert Daniels
The 2025 Cannes Film Festival is underway, and Chaz Ebert is on the ground to report on every development. In today’s video, Chaz sits in to talk with Associate Editor Robert Daniels…
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“Nine Perfect Strangers’” Second Season is Less Insightful, Still Somewhat Fun
“Nine Perfect Strangers” started as a maximalist show, with Nicole Kidman bewitching those around her as Masha Dmitrichenko, the Eastern Bloc wellness entrepreneur who promised personal transformation with her custom…
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Cannes 2025: The Secret Agent, The Love That Remains, Magellan
Bearing no relation to the Joseph Conrad novel, the competition entry “The Secret Agent,” from the Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho (“Bacurau”), is a tricky item to discuss. Not only…
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Cannes 2025: The Chronology of Water, Urchin
The Cannes Film Festival has a long-standing tradition of showcasing actors-turned-directors; one of the great thrills of this edition’s Un Certain Regard section so far has been the triumphant emergence…
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Lookin’s Free: Joe Don Baker (1936-2025)
Joe Don Baker was one of the first to teach me what screen acting was. As a kid, I was a “Mystery Science Theater 3000” obsessive, wearing out our VHS…
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The Red Carpets of the 2025 Chicago Critics Film Festival
Celebrating its twelfth year, the Chicago Critics Film Festival returned with a robust lineup of over two dozen films and hosted the largest number of in-person guests in its history. …
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Cannes 2025 Video #4: Brian Tallerico on Mission Impossible, The Phoenician Scheme, My Father’s Shadow, Secret Agent
The 2025 Cannes Film Festival is underway, and Chaz Ebert is on the ground to report on every development. In today’s video, Chaz checks in with Managing Editor Brian Tallerico to talk…
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Cannes 2025: Resurrection, Honey Don’t
After my last dispatch’s uncommon thematic synergy, I’ve come back with two films that on their face couldn’t be any more different in style and tone. One is a far-reaching…
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Cannes 2025: Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident” Wins Palme d’Or
Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident,” a Death and the Maiden–like drama about a group of Iranians confronting a man whom they suspect was their torturer in prison, won the Palme…
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