Roger Ebert Reviews

Late in Brett Morgen’s riveting “Moonage Daydream,” David Bowie speaks of his belief that people are constantly taking fragments of the life around them to create their own existence—art, politics, family, etc. This fragmentation clearly influenced Bowie’s approach in not just music but how he moved through the world, and it’s also the operating model […]

Sundance Institute CEO Joana Vicente announced this week that Eugene Hernandez will join the nonprofit Institute as the next Director of the Sundance Film Festival and head of public programming. Hernandez, a leader in the film and media industry for more than 25 years, has spent much of his career leading and advising nonprofit arts

Like the titular puppet at its center, “Pinocchio” lingers in an existential purgatory. The latest live-action remake of an animated Disney classic occupies an uncomfortable creative middle ground between remaining true to its beloved roots while also aiming to be fresh for modern audiences. Familiar lines share space with snarky one-liners. It’s not just a

Other than the obvious like watching all that you can and sacrificing sleep, the best thing you can do at a film festival to get a hold of its essence is eavesdrop. Easy enough at every film festival; but especially at the intimate Telluride, where you’ll often run into the same people and find yourself

Writer/director Zach Cregger proves himself to be a bonafide jack-in-the-box horror filmmaker with “Barbarian,” beginning with a nightmare that could happen to any of us—a double-booked Airbnb. Documentary researcher Tess (an excellent Georgina Campbell) arrives at night in the pouring rain to a little house in a forgotten part of Detroit, and a sleepy guy named Keith is

The Toronto International Film Festival (“TIFF”) starts tomorrow, Thursday, September 8th, 2022, and runs until Sunday, September 18th. On Sunday, September 11th, RogerEbert.com publisher Chaz Ebert will be presenting the TIFF Ebert Director Award to Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes during the in-person TIFF Tribute Awards gala at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto.

Though it concerns that most clamorous of subjects in modern American discourse—political division, and the partisan enmity that’s come to define it—the nonfiction feature “This Land” begins quietly: with a shot of a wheat field, blowing in the breeze, and the sound of a pick-up truck engine, sputtering.  Often privileging such sensorial vignettes above narrative

Starz is no stranger to ornate, well-costumed historical dramas, as “The White Queen,” “The White Princess,” “The Spanish Princess,” and more can attest. But with “The Serpent Queen,” Starz eyes up the modern flair and pitch-black satire of Hulu’s great “The Great” and covets it for itself. It’s all there in the rippled, torn fabric

A woman wakes up early, straightens up around the house, grabs a few items, and leaves her husband and two children sleeping. She drives away from her life, and her family’s panic starts to set in as they realize that mom isn’t coming home. There’s an early reference to “two months” that will have viewers

Adamma Ebo’s satirical “Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul,” which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, features career-best performances from its stars Sterling K. Brown and Regina Hall. Brown plays Lee-Curtis Childs, pastor of the fictional megachurch Wander To Greater Paths Baptist Church, who is in the midst of a sexual misconduct scandal. Hall plays