Roger Ebert Reviews

Indonesian director Timo Tjahjanto makes movies that embrace the absurd potential of filmmaking. I remember being a kid and hearing someone say that the best action movies show you something you’ve never seen before and you’re not sure is even possible. Tjahjanto believes in a chaotic, comedic approach to action filmmaking, which reached its career […]

It’s astonishing to see the grip Taylor Sheridan has on a specific subset of the American public, and I can’t say I blame them. His hit series, “Yellowstone,” is the backbone of Paramount’s TV network, rivaled only by the ever-expanding galaxy of “Star Trek” spinoffs that come out every other month. But where “Trek” appeals

Steve “Spaz” Williams is not a name that’s in the front of most movie lovers’ minds, but he’s a famous name to veterans of the special effects industry: a pioneer in motion-capture and realistic computer rendering who helped make the current era of cinema possible, for better and worse. The documentary “Jurassic Punk” explains why his name

Nobel Prize-winning writer Annie Ernaux is known for her blending of memory with historical and sociological context. In unearthing home movies shot by her ex-husband Phillipe during the last decade of their marriage from roughly 1972 until 1981, Ernaux and her son David Ernaux-Briot have crafted a visual odyssey in much the same vein with

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