Roger Ebert Reviews

Joe Dante’s first film came in at around seven hours long. That might be a record for a first feature, but some might say “The Movie Orgy” (1968) hardly qualifies as a real film. I disagree. While Dante and co-director Jon Davison might not have been on any sets or called “action!” on any scene […]

A group of lifelong friends gathers together at a friend’s brownstone apartment, all battle-scarred from their experiences in the recently-ended Second World War (as the title “Brooklyn 45” makes clear). They have all done things in wartime they are not proud of, and they all suffer emotional/physical trauma. They have been summoned by their friend

Although it’s being sold as a LeBron James biopic, “Shooting Stars” ends before James has even begun his records-shattering career as an NBA player. Nearly all of its two-hour running time focuses on the relationships between young James (played by acting newcomer Mookie Cook, a small forward for Compass Prep in Jefferson, Oregon); his three best friends; their parents; their schoolmates, and their

It takes a long time—too long of a time, frustratingly—for the true-crime comedy “Based on a True Story” to get to its first laugh-out-loud line: “We’re gonna get canceled! Jessica Alba f**ked us!” That frantic moment arrives at episode seven, after Ava and Nathan have hit the latest roadblock in their Faustian deal of collaborating

Take one part “A Beautiful Mind.” Add a few dashes of “Euphoria.” Sprinkle in some Oscar bait-style writing, cinematography, and a ceaseless strings-heavy score. Èt voila! You have the utterly pointless and eminently skippable limited series that is “The Crowded Room.” At best, these 10 hours of Apple TV’s latest drama will provide some background

The bittersweet Korean drama “Aloners” works best when it’s a character study about an isolated thirtysomething’s behavior instead of whatever her creators think should be done about it. Call center ace Jina (Gong Seung-yeon) doesn’t get completely pigeonholed by her age or stereotypically millennial intolerances until her story wraps up, at which point her problems

The Foundation for the Augmentation of African Americans in Film (FAAAF) will host The LightReel Film Festival (LFF) in Washington, D.C. from Thursday, June 8th, through Saturday, June 10th. The LightReel Film Festival is an annual showcase that began in 2019 for cinematic talent to serve as an opportunity to inform, collaborate, entertain, and educate its audience through the cinematic

The fawning docuseries “Arnold” repackages Arnold Schwarzenegger’s already well-spun and streamlined biography. In three hour-long episodes devoted to his three major careers (bodybuilder, movie actor, and politician), Schwarzenegger provides negligible on-camera and voiceover-narrated commentary for movie clips, old and new talking head interviews, and self-congratulatory pep-talk commentary about his life, whose selectively remembered setbacks all

Anchored by a star-making turn from Rosy McEwen in the titular role, the new lesbian drama “Blue Jean” was inspired by a news article writer/director Georgia Oakley read in 2018, just before the 30th anniversary of the UK’s Section 28. The term describes a series of laws that prohibited the “promotion of homosexuality” by local

Reviewing the Pink Floyd album Wish You Were Here in 1975, critic Robert Christgau concluded his praise of the record (he gave it an “A-,” the highest grade he’d ever give the band) by declaring, “And the cover/liner art is worthy of all the stoned raps it has no doubt already inspired.” That cover/liner art was