Roger Ebert Reviews

James Cameron wants you to believe. He wants you to believe that aliens are killing machines, humanity can defeat time-traveling cybords, and a film can transport you to a significant historical disaster. In many ways, the planet of Pandora in “Avatar” has become his most ambitious manner of sharing this belief in the power of cinema. […]

A Black woman lays prone on the floor of an empty home. Her back is bloodied; her clothes are torn. She desperately yells for “Kevin” to no avail. She soon gathers herself and combs the home for supplies: A new shirt, a knife, a gun located in the fridge, her phone. The camera is distant,

“Today, no music,” David Lynch declared during his daily weather report posted today on YouTube, where he typically accompanies the Los Angeles forecast with a song currently spotlighted on his mental playlist. It wasn’t long after that news began to circulate online regarding Lynch’s longtime cherished collaborator, Angelo Badalamenti, one of the all-time greatest composers

The Chicago Film Critics Association, a group that includes several writers from this site, announced their nominations for the best in film from 2022, led strongly by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” which notched a stunning 12 nominations, nearly doubling the second-highest total. “EEAAO” not only appeared in Best Picture,

The era of weaponized nostalgia has been very good for Disney, a company that loves to recycle its most beloved (and even its largely forgotten) properties into new products designed largely to appear to stressed-out adults who wish they could be kids again. Remember when Nicolas Cage solved historical puzzles in the two “National Treasure”

Passes for the 23rd Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, or “Ebertfest,” will go on sale Monday, December 12th, at the official sites of Ebertfest and its main venue, The Virginia Theatre, 203 W. Park Avenue, Champaign, Illinois. They can also be purchased by calling the theater box office at 217-356-9063. The festival, co-founded by Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Roger Ebert and his wife

This is NOT my Top Ten List of the best movies of the year. Film Critics and Contributors to Rogerebert.com are furiously watching the last of the screenings to be able to bring you a fulsome listing of those very soon. And we have recently spotlighted oodles of overlooked films that you should watch. This is my joyous listing of

This Christmas has been a generous season for Yuletide horror, but in a Hallmark Channel programming, quantity-over-quality way. Last week saw a box office success from Tommy Wirkola’s killer good Santa “Violent Night,” and today also has “Christmas Bloody Christmas,” about a killer bad Santa. Add to that pile “The Mean One,” a lackluster parody with

About 20 years ago, a young woman named Silvia di Paolo was digging around in the basement of her family’s home for skis when she stumbled upon a cache of over 250,000 photo negatives, prints, and slides. When she asked her father, Paolo, a professor of history and philosophy, about them, he was initially reluctant

It doesn’t matter why or how it happened, but somehow, the military-industrial complex created a killer robot Santa. That’s how “Christmas Bloody Christmas” starts, with a “RoboCop”-style montage of fake TV ads for Yule-themed promotions and events, like a Christmas rock concert—come see Santa live at the Civic Center—and Christmas edibles, too (cookies, naturally). Who