Roger Ebert Reviews

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,

In 2021, it was astonishing to see that, out of all game franchises, “League of Legends” came out swinging as a pioneer to the current “great video game adaptation” boom via the Netflix animated series “Arcane.” Showrunners Christian Linke and Alex Yee successfully fleshed out a fluid steampunk world fueled by class themes, magic, and

Coming off of the wild success of Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two,” comes a Max series set in the same world, thousands of years before it. Originally ordered in 2019, then called “Dune: Sisterhood,” the retitled “Dune: Prophecy” has had its fair share of setbacks. Delays and creative overhauls have plagued it from the start,

Across the three features he’s made to date, Tyler Taormina has emerged as a true American independent, with an inquisitive eye and extraordinary depth of feeling for adolescent rites of passage that unfold — poignantly, mysteriously, with a sense of romantic possibility — amid the suburbs’ lonely, nocturnal stretches. His subliminally menacing feature debut, “Ham

Apple TV loves to spend oodles of money on prestigious sci-fi projects like “Dark Matter” and “Foundation,” but their best in this subgenre by some stretch is Graham Yost’s riveting “Silo.” The first season of this adaptation of the books by Hugh Howey played like a timely riff on philosophical sci-fi noirs like “Blade Runner,”

As you read this, 94-year-old filmmaker Clint Eastwood‘s “Juror #2” is playing on 458 screens in France, where it opened at number one at the box office, according to reported figures. The movie is playing on just 50 screens in his home country, which also happens to be the home of its releasing company, Warner

I am always excited by the return of Black Harvest Film Festival, Chicago’s fall celebration of the fruits of Black cinema. But this year, admittedly, for a personal reason, I’m even more hyped for the festival, which this year takes place from Nov 8 thru Nov 21. This time around, I have the immense privilege