Danielle Brooks movie reviews & film summaries

Festivals & Awards

Oscars 2024: The View from the Room

Tomris Laffly | 2024-03-11

The Oscar sandwich: a slab of gloriousness between two slices of bad

Festivals & Awards

A Great Movie Year Deserved a Better Oscars

Tim Grierson | 2024-03-11

Despite some flashes of inspiration, protest and pizzazz, the 96th Academy Awards were too routine to capture the spirit of 2023’s brilliant films and the uncertain world outside the multiplex.

Festivals & Awards

Oscar Predictions 2024: What Will Win This Year

Daniel Joyaux | 2024-03-01

Our expert's picks for this year's winners.

Festivals & Awards

Nine Major Omissions from the 2024 Oscar Nominations

Daniel Joyaux | 2024-01-23

On the unexpected and disappointing misses from today's Oscar nods.

Festivals & Awards

The 96th Academy Award Nominations Are Announced, Led by Oppenheimer

The Editors | 2024-01-23

The 96th Academy Award nominations are announced, led by Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer."

Festivals & Awards

Oscar Predictions 2024: What Will Be Nominated This Year

Daniel Joyaux | 2024-01-19

A look at the eight major categories and what our Oscar expert thinks is getting nominated.

Festivals & Awards

The 15th Annual AAFCA Awards Announces Award Recipients

The Editors | 2024-01-17

An article announcing the award recipients for The 15th Annual AAFCA Awards.

Festivals & Awards

2024 Awards Season Kickoff: Palm Springs, Variety Honorees, Golden Globes, Governors Awards

Chaz Ebert | 2024-01-12

An article about the beginning of the 2024 film Awards Season,including the Palm Springs Gala, Golden Globes, Critics Awards and others.

Interviews

Owning My Power: Danielle Brooks on The Color Purple

Rendy Jones | 2023-12-28

An interview with one of the standout stars of The Color Purple.

Features

A Report from the Color Purple Special Screening with Oprah Winfrey

Jana Monji | 2023-12-19

A report from the November screening of The Color Purple, with a very special panel.

Chaz's Journal

The Year of Black Men in Cinema: Chaz Ebert's Top Ten(-ish) Films of 2023

Chaz Ebert | 2023-12-15

Chaz Ebert reveals her picks for the Top Ten(-ish) (19) Films of 2023.

Festivals & Awards

The Critics Choice Association's Celebration of Cinema and Television Honoring Black, Latino, and AAPI Achievements in 2023

Sarah Knight Adamson | 2023-12-09

A report from the Critics Choice Association's Celebration of Cinema and Television honoring Black, Latino, and AAPI achievements in 2023.

TV/Streaming

HBO Max’s Peacemaker Continues Twisted Saga of Suicide Squad

Brian Tallerico | 2022-01-10

A review of HBO Max's Peacemaker series, a spin-off of James Gunn's Suicide Squad.

Festivals & Awards

Critics Choice Awards Celebration of Black Cinema & Television to Honor Will Smith, Ruth Negga and More on December 6th

The Editors | 2021-12-03

An article detailing the artists who will be honored at the Critic's Choice Awards' fourth annual Celebration of Black Cinema & Television on Monday, December 6th.