Roger Ebert Reviews

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

November 7th is a special date in my family. It’s the day my grandson was born. We should be celebrating him. The best I can do is pay tribute. Joseph London Smith was born with a smile on his face. The day after hip hop artist Takeoff of the Grammy award-winning group Migos was shot and

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 Marya Gates. Every year after I drop my end of the year list, a few people inevitably comment with “I’ve never even heard of that

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 Simon Abrams. It’s hard to know how to talk about, let alone recommend, overlooked movies from this past year. A few of these movies are

As I look back at the 1979 events that set America and Iran on a still continuing course of mutual hostility and suspicion, I can almost picture my face flushed red with anger and shame. The anger came after Iranian students took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in November of that year, setting off

Jonah Hill’s gently powerful documentary “Stutz” is a personal project about someone else’s work. It’s personal in that Hill is sharing his therapist, Phil Stutz, with us, and the “tools” that Stutz has concocted and imparted. Using Stutz’s voice as guide and line animation to recreate the diagrams Stutz draws on notecards for his patients,

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 Nell Minow. Look, I love going to superhero movies, starry romantic comedies, chases-and-explosions blockbusters, and Oscar-worthy prestige films as much as anyone, but I do

Few of this year’s debut features feel as achingly personal as “The Inspection,” in which writer/director Elegance Bratton chronicles his own story of how his service in the Marine Corps brought him self acceptance. It’s a gift he had never received from his mother, who rejected him upon discovering that he was gay. Jeremy Pope,

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 Robert Daniels. It’s an annual ritual for me: End of the year lists drop from major publications and respected colleagues and I pull my hair