Roger Ebert Reviews

For those unfamiliar, a landman is the public-facing side of an oil company’s production team; their job is to secure leases and mineral rights for oil drilling. As Taylor Sheridan‘s umpteenth show for Paramount Plus would have you believe, it’s a cutthroat job that involves, of all things, negotiating a land deal with a Mexican […]

Ryota Kondo grew up on horror movies. For the Japanese director, that meant the “J-horror” of the ‘90s and ‘00s, a wave of films by filmmakers who specialized in creepy kids, damp atmosphere, techno-paranoia, and an oppressive sense of dread. For his feature debut “Missing Child Videotape” — an expansion of his prize-winning short film

As the United States slowly moves away from Christopher Columbus Day and the myth of Thanksgiving, we have an opportunity to learn about the history and contemporary lives of Indigenous people instead. Film and TV have shaped much of our knowledge of Indigenous cultures worldwide. And with the recent popularity of mainstream films like “Killers

A good adaptation is multi-dimensional. It requires a convergence of factors that causes audiences to nod in satisfaction. In “Cross,” the upcoming series based on the Alex Cross novels by James Patterson, the leading man, source material, and setting form a conspiracy – one that draws us into the shadowy spaces of both serial killers

Sony has struggled lately to develop new IPs. Almost everyone loves “Astro Bot,” but it says something about the current state of the industry that they’re digging into the recent catalog to try and satisfy an existing fan base this holiday season instead of bringing gamers to a new universe to explore. And what’s especially

“That’s the ugliest thing I’ve ever seen in my whole life!” a little girl (Bethany Simons-Denville) exclaims. She shouts it at the audience, who, in “Seed of Chucky“‘s first-person opening scene, takes a queer kid’s point-of-view. As she throws them into a toy chest, it’s like we fall into a closet. The kid comes out

In Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain,” now in theaters, two cousins reunite for a tour through Poland in honor of their recently deceased grandmother, who lived there before the Holocaust. Hoping that the experience will allow them to reconnect with their family’s past and grapple with their own sense of guilt and obligation toward the

I’ve seen the original “Godzilla” three times in theaters. Most films benefit from being seen on a big screen, and “Godzilla” especially so: It’s the only way to get a proper sense of scale, even if most movie screens top out at a fraction of the monster’s original 50-meter (164 foot) height. (Tracking Godzilla’s size,