Roger Ebert Reviews

“You Resemble Me” is at its strongest when it tries to humanize its misunderstood central figure in simple, intimate ways. Journalist-turned-filmmaker Dina Amer, with her feature directing debut, aims to make us sympathize with the plight of Hasna Ait Boulahcen, who was miscredited as Europe’s first female suicide bomber in connection with the November 2015 […]

Grief doesn’t present in just one way. Grief literally messes with your mind. Someone dies, and you can still hear their footsteps in the hall. You think you see them on a crowded street. You can’t delete their number from your phone. Grief is a tough subject to address because it isn’t understood or, really,

In “The X-Files,” the poster on Fox Mulder’s wall declares “THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE”. The truth is “out there,” it can’t be grasped. The conspiracy involved in covering it up would be massive. “The X-Files” is one of the most paranoid television series ever made, and “Something in the Dirt,” a film written, directed,

Midway through the one-take indie thriller “Soft & Quiet,” a pregnant white woman with bleached blonde hair and a leopard print cardigan says that she was born into the KKK, but these days she’s more active on the Neo-Nazi website Stormfront. “The media loves to portray us as big scary monsters. Am I really that

Reduced to its bare bones, the story of “Utama” (which is Quechua for “our home”) is one you might think you’ve heard a hundred times. A man and a woman work the land in a remote area that’s largely deprived of the blessings of civilization. But they’re old, and their age is catching up to

“Next Exit,” the debut feature from writer/director Mali Elfman, is a peculiar little film that starts off with a potentially astonishing hook—the kind that could easily be expanded into a limited series without having to stretch things out in any way—only to quickly transform into an all-too-familiar trip through a standard-issue road movie narrative. It

“When something drastic happens, it turns me into something different,” one of the Calendar Girls explains. She is a member of a 50-and-over Florida-based dance troupe that performs more than 100 times a year, wearing fishnets, feathers, “Kiss Me You Fool” bright red lipstick, and lots and lots of bling. “We use magic from our

Incantatory passages from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass bookend the underwhelming music documentary “Meet Me in the Bathroom,” a short-sighted, soundbite-intensive remembrance of the New York City post-punk/indie pop rock scene of the early aughts. Mind you, featured bands like LCD Soundsystem, Interpol, The Strokes, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs are not even on break, let alone

“Weird Al” Yankovic stands at the precipice of greatness and next to some hot dog buns when he has another eureka moment. At a party packed with the real Yankovic’s spiritual influences—including Andy Warhol, Gallagher, Elvira, Tiny Tim, Devine, and Pee-Wee Herman—the ascending parody artist is challenged to show his skills on the spot, to

“God of War” has been one of Sony’s most successful franchises of the modern era, both critically acclaimed and commercially massive. You can’t go to a pop culture convention without seeing Kratos somewhere—he’s a character who has transcended mere video game hero to become iconic. The newest game in a series that started way back