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Speaking at the Toronto film festival, where he was accepting an award, the auteur recalled the press response to his 1989 film

He was known for his 1973 genre-changing horror, but many of the director’s shocking and electrifying films also reached deep into the American psyche

On the 75th birthday of the paper, a visit with colleagues long gone.

The first daily edition was a reminder to readers that, while they were reading a new paper, they could trust the reporting. That has never changed.

Roger Ebert once famously likened the movies to "a machine that generates empathy." It's a formulation I've never fully been able to swallow, for reasons that have less to do with Ebert's specific insight than with its reductive, ad-nauseam recycling by other critics and moviegoers.

'Avatar: The Way of Water' producer Jon Landau dives into the innovations behind James Cameron's new sequel, and defends against movie's lack of a footprint.

If you need an emotionless sci-fi world, don’t call Spock. Call Bale.

CHICAGO — Haddonfield, Illinois, does not exist.

Spielberg's merciless yet maudlin take on a classic fairytale deserves a revisit.