Roger Ebert Reviews

For the first two seasons of creator Liz Feldman’s droll, incisive series “Dead to Me,” Laguna Beach besties Jen (Christina Applegate) and Judy (Linda Cardellini) have been surrounded by death and lies. In fact, their tight-knit friendship is forged by them: each of them is either directly or indirectly responsible for the death of their […]

Disney legend Floyd Norman is an artist and animator whose career on films like “Sleeping Beauty,” “The Jungle Book,” and “Toy Story 2” merited his own documentary in 2016 (“Floyd Norman: An Animated Life”). He appears in “Mickey: The Story of a Mouse,” a Disney+ film about the iconic character. In an interview, Norman discussed his

Azure sky, clear waters, and a blindingly-white beach surround the all-inclusive Dominican resort where a French-Cameroonian woman named Emma (co-writer Clarisse Albrecht) unwinds at the beginning of the Dominican Republic’s Oscar hopeful “Bantú Mama” from director and co-writer Ivan Herrera. Her relaxation is cut short when she receives a phone call saying a dubious meeting

We asked ten contributors to pick three films from 2022 that they think everyone should see before making their top ten lists of the year. These are the choices of Clint Worthington. One of the great joys and pressures of being a critic is that we just see so much in a given year. Between the

On an unassuming Saturday morning in September 1992, Warner Bros. Animation introduced a new version of a beloved comic book character, and a voice-acting legend was born. That legend was Kevin Conroy, who inhabited the role of the DC Comics staple Batman and Bruce Wayne on the widely celebrated television show “Batman: The Animated Series.” Sadly,

We asked ten contributors to pick three films from 2022 that they think everyone should see before making their top ten lists of the year. These are the choices of Katie Rife. Technically, the movies “came back” in 2021. But 2022 felt like the real return to form, transitioning from mostly digital releases—and an all-virtual

We asked ten contributors to pick three films from 2022 that they think everyone should see before making their top ten lists of the year. These are the choices of Carlos Aguilar. Lost in the deluge of late-season awards contenders, followed by the catch-up frenzy to see every star-studded title, are the standout films whose

“It is so complicated to talk about my mom, but she is where my strength comes from. My mother had me when she was sixteen years old, and she was an orphan by the time she was ten. She was the first person to ever love me completely and the first person to ever reject

Actor, movie star, and here first-time feature director Russell Crowe is not a billionaire, but he’s likely been in closer proximity to billionaires than most of us. One figures that kind of exposure might have informed his performance here as a tech billionaire—who gives his profession as “gambler” to a would-be portrait painter—arranging an eccentric

There was a time when traditional TV advertising simply meant more than it does now. Yes, young readers, in the days before DVRs and streaming, ads made a real impact not only to the bottom line of shareholders but to actual pop culture. They shaped trends, fashion, and even vocabulary, sometimes even defining what people