Roger Ebert Reviews

“Daredevil: Born Again” is uneven, but the ambitious nine-part series lands plenty of punches if you go in knowing that it positions comic-book fare not as escapist entertainment but as bloody, political commentary.  First, the disappointments. Like many a reboot/sequel before it, this new Marvel entry doesn’t get going until its second episode, spending the […]

I first saw prolific director Joan Micklin Silver’s transcendent 1988 romantic comedy “Crossing Delancey” when it aired on TCM during their 2015 month-long series called Trailblazing Women in Film. The series highlighted films directed by women from the silent era all the way to contemporary filmmakers still working today. It happened to be the same

On the surface, last year’s Oscar night that celebrated studio filmmaking with 7 richly-deserved Academy Awards won by “Oppenheimer” couldn’t have been more different than this year’s. Contrastingly, the 97th Academy Awards that took place at Hollywood’s Dolby Theater on Sunday had independent film at its heart through and through. Tying a record with Walt

Fairytales do come true. For “Anora,” it came five times with wins for the film itself, Sean Baker (a record-tying four himself for Picture, Director, Editing and Original Screenplay) and leading lady Mikey Madison (Best Actress). The 97th Annual Academy Awards kicked off and was full of magic, showing love for the City of Angels

Ed Burns wrote and directed “Millers in Marriage,” the story of three middle-aged siblings and their complicated relationships. Burns plays a recently divorced man beginning a relationship with his wife’s former boss. In an interview, Gretchen Mol and Juliana Margulies, who play his characters’ sisters, Eve and Maggie, talked about the scene they shared, why

A 1980s screwball romantic comedy that’s retained some of the hallmarks of the genre’s heyday in the ’30s and ’40s, “Baby Boom”’s delightful chronicle of a high-powered New York businesswoman who inherits a baby from a long-estranged cousin and decides to escape the rat race in order to start over in idyllic small-town Vermont. It

When the In Memoriam tribute unspools during the Oscars on March 2, the name of Gena Rowlands no doubt will be there. A two-time nominee, she died at age 94 in August. She remains unforgettable for her cinema performances, many directed by her husband John Cassavetes, the pioneering indie filmmaker for whom she served as