Roger Ebert Reviews

Everyone loves a hero. We’re awash with heroic stories in film and TV, decades into the comic-book-turned-movie blockbuster. In fact, we’ve had so many of these stories that there’s a bona fide backlash now, with countless films whose taglines could be “not all heroes wear capes.”’ Now, whether they’re wearing spandex or not, most motion […]

The absurdist drama “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” begins with one of the most indelible images to grace the silver screen in recent memory: a young woman, Shula (Susan Chardy, in a star-making debut performance), donning Missy Elliott’s iconic bejeweled mask and oversized inflatable black suit from her music video for “The Rain,” driving alone

The bullet points for the final season of HBO’s “The Righteous Gemstones” are fairly straightforward: Siblings Jesse, Judy, and Kelvin Gemstone (Danny McBride, Edi Patterson, and Adam DeVine, respectively) are still squabbling about whose efforts at their family megachurch deserves the most attention; their father Eli (John Goodman, always wonderful), now sporting long hair and

Emily Bett Rickards plays the title role in “Queen of the Ring,” based on the true story of Mildred Burke, the pioneering wrestler who began her “not fixed, scripted” fights when women were still banned from wrestling in every state. She became a world champion and the first woman athlete to earn $1 million. How

There’s something about “Picnic at Hanging Rock” that makes one obsessive. Directed by Peter Weir and based on the novel of the same name by Joan Lindsay, the film takes place in 1900 and charts the aftermath of the disappearance of three schoolgirls and a teacher during a Valentine’s Day picnic beneath Hanging Rock, a

The South African film industry is complete with pristine production, creativity, and thoughtfulness. To my surprise, my American friends are only familiar with Darrell Roodts’ “Sarafina” and have yet to explore South African films beyond it. As a former resident of South Africa, I have been enamored with its storytelling abilities for ten years. Now,

For Natalie Morales, telling diverse stories as an actor/writer/director isn’t just a personal calling—it’s a responsibility. “I think you introduce a concept or a person or type of person in a movie or a TV show, and you can see a direct correlation from how society and culture changes because of that,” Morales told RogerEbert.com

Set in a future world where no one ages, there are no animals and precious few plants, Fleur Fortuné’s dystopian sci-fi drama “The Assessment” follows isolated scientists Mia (Elizabeth Olsen) and Aaryan (Himesh Patel) as they endure an arduous, week-long, and ultimately absurd government-mandated test, led by the wildly unpredictable assessor Virginia (Alicia Vikander), designed