Roger Ebert Reviews

As usual, the New York Film Festival showcased a slew of documentaries this year. Their topics ranged from in-depth looks at celebrities to probing examinations of prescription drug fraud and slavery. The festival’s centerpiece was the Venice award-winning Laura Poitras documentary, “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” a film that consisted of two powerful narratives […]

This film, directed by Edward Berger from a script he wrote with Lesley Paterson and Ian Stokell, is the first German-made version of Erich Maria Remarque’s famed novel about World War I, written in German and published in 1928. The first film adaptation of the book, released in 1930, was American, directed by Lewis Milestone,

“The Curse of Bridge Hollow” is essentially an Adam Sandler movie without Adam Sandler—and not one of the good Adam Sandler movies, like “Uncut Gems” or “Hustle,” where he tantalizes us with the fact that he can actually act. No, this feels more like one of the many broad, lifeless comedies he’s made for Netflix

“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic and a killer,” British-born D.H. Lawrence asserted in his seminal 1924 book Studies in Classic American Literature, in which he considered writers ranging from Franklin to Poe to Melville and others. Lawrence had a point, to be sure, but his remark seemed to have opened a Pandora’s box

There is a moment in “Plan A,” based on the true story of a revenge plot by German Jews following WWII, when two exhausted, deeply traumatized people, devastated by the loss of friends, family, homes, and a belief in a world that makes sense, take a moment to do something normal. They go to a

Park Chan-wook doesn’t make films that feel as traditional as the first hour of “Decision to Leave.” Anyone who knows that this is a movie from the director of “Oldboy” and “The Handmaiden” will be looking closely at the relatively straightforward thriller in front of them and trying to figure how it’s going to turn

Anyone who’s read the stunning true story of “The Watcher” remembers it. Published in New York Magazine in November 2018, it’s the tale of 657 Boulevard, a Westfield, New Jersey address that was stalked by a mysterious stranger. Derek Broaddus and his wife Maria had found their dream house in 2014, but they quickly started

The official launch of the Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies in the College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will take place with an Inaugural Lecture on Friday, October 28th. The lecture, titled, “Re-Enchanting Our Relationship to Film and Media History: A Brief Survey of the Media Ecology Project,” will feature University of Illinois

For years, Canadian twin sister pop duo Tegan and Sara Quin have raised the spirits of many LGBTQ indie-pop/rock fans with their upbeat angsty music. During the early 2000s, no viewer could escape the Quin sisters’ music, as their music was featured in nearly every popular teen drama television series from “Degrassi” to “90210” to “One

“Till” isn’t an easy story to tell. Recalling the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, who left Chicago to visit his cousins in Money, Mississippi before being ripped from his bed by racist white Southerners —“Till” has already ignited passionate discussions surrounding the worthwhileness of depicting Black trauma on screen. Directed by Chinonye Chukwu, a