Roger Ebert Reviews

Wednesday, we released the RogerEbert.com consensus Top Ten Films of 2022, led by Martin McDonagh’s “The Banshees of Inisherin.” Today, we dig deeper, presenting you with all submitted lists from our brilliant critics and independent contributors, including both our regular reviewers and our freelancers. There are over 200 films cited below as among the best […]

The beautiful, verdant mountains of North Vietnam fill the frame as a handheld camera pans across the wilderness, taking all its wild beauty. A teenage girl reminisces about her childhood on these hills, stealing cucumbers for pigs. Her voice filled with a weariness well beyond her years. This begins “Children of the Mist,” director Hà

Director Mary McCartney has to strike a difficult balance in “If These Walls Could Sing.” Should she talk about the fascinating lore behind the documentary’s primary subject—the legendary Abbey Road Studios—or talk about the hand her dad Paul McCartney had in making this recording space a hallowed spot for pilgrimages by artists and fans alike?

A knock on the door in the dead of night. It’s almost Christmas, and there’s snow on the ground. The wind moans. After reviewing a news story about Sally, her teenage daughter, Darlene Hagen (Anna Gunn) has finally settled into bed. Sally went missing about 20 years ago, and Darlene has been waiting for a

“Bardo” refers to the Buddhist concept of in-between, an intermediate, transitional, or liminal state between death and rebirth. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s film title points to a specific in-between that is of understandable interest to those whose job is telling stories: the place between fiction and reality. Fiction is always about some kind of truth, designed

If you were a casting director, and there was a part in the script for a father who might have a crusty exterior but also had a warm heart, someone who could be believably cranky about not having any muffins for breakfast but also believably paternal in providing some advice but more support, your first

The Chicago Film Critics Association, a group of professionals that counts several of the major voices at this site among its members, gathers on Wednesday night to pick the best in film from 2022. For the first time in years, there was a split in Director/Picture with the former going to Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert

In the late ’90s, while doing some globe-trotting research for a book on Iranian cinema (which only culminated with the release this week of my In the Time of Kiarostami: Writings on Iranian Cinema), I went to England to interview one of that cinema’s legendary characters. I took a train to Sussex from London, then

What a year. The array of filmmaking on the list below should be shown to anyone willing to suggest that 2022 was somehow inferior in the history of cinema. And these excellent films don’t even include some of the most popular flicks of the year like the critically acclaimed “Top Gun: Maverick” or “Avatar: The Way of Water” (although