CHICAGO — Well. Goodbye for now. The Tribune has eliminated the position of film critic, as part of a newsroom reorganization. This leaves me with two options: stick around for reassignment or take a ...

Film critic Michael Phillips has taken a buyout at the Chicago Tribune after he says the paper eliminated the role. “Writing about a valiant and inspiring city and its champions of cinema, and the ...

In 1975 (that is 50 years ago as of this writing), Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times became the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize. To be clear, the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism itself was ...

The Chicago International Film Festival, which returns this weekend, debuted 60 years ago under the direction of 22-year-old independent filmmaker Michael Kutza with financial and in-kind support from ...