Roger Ebert Reviews

We live in a world of abundant beauty and unspeakable horror. We can perceive its myriad features to a certain extent partly because we are permitted to. One of the locales of horror on our sphere is the country of North Korea, ruled over by an authoritarian dictatorship that does not allow its citizenry access […]

The morning after a wild night of dancing on roller skates and cavorting with not one but two hot men, Alex (Adèle Exarchopoulos) returns to her rented villa, curling up next to her best friend, Carole (Mélanie Laurent). Carole takes one look at Alex’s face—all bruised on one side, with fresh cuts on her lip

Much like the Golden Age of Television, the Golden Age of Documentary has wrought unforeseeable consequences. We’ve seen the complications of the former in the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, with shrinking writers’ rooms and the unequal residual pie of an ever-expanding content universe. The latter is just beginning to emerge. The glut of shabby true

“Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project” is a feel-good artists’ profile doc that honors its subject, the American poet Nikki Giovanni, on her own terms. That’s no small feat given that Giovanni and her achievements might have easily been limited to her identity as a queer black artist, born and educated in the American

George C. Wolfe’s “Rustin” provides a unique perspective on the famous 1963 March on Washington. While the historic event correctly recalls memories of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, “Rustin” documents one of the crucial men behind the march’s inception, Bayard Rustin, played here by Colman Domingo. While working against the forces

Like “Where the Crawdads Sing,” “The Marsh King’s Daughter” struggles to evoke the lyricism of the language in the novel it is based on, despite exquisite images of the wetland settings. Despite strong work from Ben Mendelsohn, Daisy Ridley, and Gil Birmingham, director Neil Burger’s adaptation is a medium-level thriller.  Helena (Brooklynn Prince) lives with her

“Slow. Take your time.” Isaiah (Chris Chalk) is coaching his eldest daughter to fish. Mack (Kaylee Nicole Johnson) takes in the moment, running her hand through the river’s muddy waters—an act she will repeat many more times throughout her life, as shown through the lens of Raven Jackson’s debut feature, “All Dirt Roads Taste of

Meg Ryan’s sparkling charm remains firmly intact in “What Happens Later,” her return to movies for the first time in eight years. Ryan serves as director, co-writer, and star of the film, which is very intentionally a throwback to the kind of feel-good rom-com that made her a superstar. References abound to the 1990s: the

“Quiz Lady,” directed by Jessica Yu from a screenplay by Jen D’Angelo, plays a bit like an old-school ’90s buddy comedy a la Penelope Spheeris’ “Black Sheep,” oscillating between wacky sight gags, zippy one-liners, and heartfelt relationship drama. While Yu doesn’t always balance the zany physical comedy and earnest family drama she aims for, and D’Angelo’s

For years, Taylor Sheridan has been restyling the Old West for Paramount’s ever-expanding roster of gunslinging dramas—both in the murky present (“Yellowstone”) and the grimy past (“1883,” “1923”). But now, the prolific geezer-whisperer has stretched the frontiers of his Western yarns beyond the multigenerational dramas of the Dutton family and into the realm of real