Roger Ebert Reviews

Rob Savage has proven twice that he can aim higher than “The Boogeyman,” an emotionally numbing horror movie and counter-intuitive self-challenge to make PG-13 horror scary. The filmmaker’s previous ventures—“Host,” about a haunted Zoom seance, and “Dashcam,” about a rapping anti-vaxxer’s live-streamed descent into hell—led with innovation and provocation. They’re as current as a WiFi […]

“Rise,” from French filmmaker Cédric Klapisch, is not blazingly original by any stretch, and any moviegoer paying even the slightest amount can predict most of the plot’s moves. And yet, something is to be said about presenting a familiar narrative in a straightforward and undeniably entertaining manner. That is what Klapisch has done here, aided in no small part

“We use the term epidemic, which makes us think of a disease, but this was a man-made crisis driven by greed.” Although these words are spoken by Dr. Andrew Kolodny, one of the nation’s leading experts on the opioid crisis, towards the end of “Anonymous Sister,” they are the crux of director Jamie Boyle’s searing,

Some of our best filmmakers have amplified career-long obsessions with faith into masterpieces like “First Reformed” and “Silence.” The prospect of the underrated genius of Abel Ferrara pondering the meaning of life through the story of Francesco Forgione, a world-famous Franciscan friar of the early twentieth century who showed signs of the stigmata, hums with

“Simulant,” a sci-fi murder mystery about humanoid robots and a potential robot uprising, has something that many other cheap “Blade Runner” and “I, Robot” rip-offs don’t: a clear sense that the loss of life, artificial or otherwise, should be sorrowful. When characters die in “Simulant,” the movie’s creeping pace and dramatic inertia seem a little more

Convinced that the extraterrestrials who abducted her when she was 15 are finally coming back to take her with them, Winona (Sarah Hay), a bubbly young woman, asks her neighbor Peter (Matthew Jeffers), a little person mourning the death of a close friend, to let her borrow his car. He reluctantly agrees, but only if

HBO’s four-part mini-series “Burden of Proof” asks two heartbreaking questions that are inverses of each other. What if you were convinced your parents had something to do with the death of your sister? It’s a hard thing to even fathom, and something that has shaped the entire existence of Stephen Pandos, whose sister Jennifer disappeared

Last year, the South Korean action star Ma Deong-seok, aka Don Lee, took over the Korean cop thriller franchise “The Outlaws,” originally titled “Crime City” in Korea. A blockbuster sequel to “The Outlaws” was released in May under the revised title of “The Roundup,” which understandably shifts the series’ focus onto Lee and away from

After experiencing David Lynch’s complete body of work on the big screen last year, thanks to Daniel Knox’s masterfully curated retrospective at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre, my soul was ready for documentarian Alexandre O. Philippe’s latest work, “Lynch/Oz.” As he did in “78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene” and “Memory: The Origins of Alien,” Philippe brilliantly illustrates

TNT’s British import “The Lazarus Project” is a strong and smart network thriller. It has it all—a thoughtful exploration of moral questions, time traveling (of sorts), and plenty of suspense. The show follows George (Paapa Essiedu), who is happily coupled with Sarah (Charly Clive) and about to get a life-changing business loan for his market-predicting