Roger Ebert Reviews

Dirk Bogarde’s face has a certain, blunt pugnaciousness that makes sense of his transition from matinee idol into a mainstay of the challenging, transformational works of artists like Basil Dearden, John Schlesinger, and Luchino Visconti throughout the 1960s. There’s a certain haunted quality that shades his deep-set eyes, too, a downturn to his mouth that hints […]

Do you miss watching three spoiled, immature, and psychologically stunted siblings squabble over their right to their father’s fortune every Sunday? Fill the “Succession”-shaped hole in your heart with “The Righteous Gemstones,” which returns to HBO on Sunday for its third season.  Created by and starring Danny McBride, the series follows Jesse (McBride), Judy (Edi

I remember my first Marvel comic. I was a teenage fan of DC Comics’ Superman, who seemed to me to be the ideal superhero with an unquestioning dedication to “truth, justice, and the American way.” He was ever-stalwart, cheerful, and delightfully under-appreciated in his Clark Kent persona. And then someone gave me Marvel’s Fantastic Four.

The following alphabetized table of contents features all of our reviews by Brian Tallerico and Matt Zoller Seitz filed at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival. “Bad Things” by Brian Tallerico  “Blood for Dust” by Brian Tallerico  “Catching Dust” by Brian Tallerico  “Common Ground” by Matt Zoller Seitz  “Eric LaRue” by Brian Tallerico “Every Body” by Matt Zoller

It might seem obvious to bundle two Tribeca premieres with the word “Dust” into one dispatch, but these films have more in common than just a title. They’re both about desperate people trying to outrun their past and avoid a violent future. One is more effective than the other, but I could see both finding

On October 12, 2000, a Texan named Mary Morris was murdered. On October 16, 2000, a Texan named Mary Morris was murdered. The dual assassination—both clearly the work of a hitman—became legendary in the true crime community. Was the first death the act of a bumbling assassin, a hired gun who got the wrong Mary

Like many Gen-Xers, I think my first exposure to Godzilla movies was on local broadcast channels filling their weekend matinee slots with old Westerns and Showa-era kaiju flicks. I know I had seen most of them as a kid before revisiting them the last few years as Criterion restored 15 of them (from 1954-1975) to

I had an illuminating carpool to a wedding a couple of years back that hipped me to the behind-the-scenes popularity of Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso.” I was listening to a friend who worked in Los Angeles on TV scripts talk about how the demand for stories had changed with the massive popularity of the congenial series. Studios were

Maria Fredriksson’s “The Gullspång Miracle” is about whether a seeming coincidence might be the origin point for a mystery that can be solved by those who are affected by it, and maybe heal their pain. The main subjects are two Norwegian sisters: May, who still lives in Norway at the start of the tale, and

The fact that Treat Williams was not one of Hollywood’s biggest movie stars has to rank as one of its most egregious failures. Here was a guy who had all the qualifications one might look for in such a person—the looks, the charisma, and the sheer, unquestionable talent—and while he worked steadily until his tragic death