Roger Ebert Reviews

Sergio Mims, the co-founder of the Black Harvest Film Festival, a contributor to this site, and a long-standing member of the Chicago Film Critics Association, passed away this week at the age of 67. We wanted to open a platform to his colleagues and friends to help express their loss and what Sergio meant to them. […]

Movie posters dot the background of Ida Hansen Eldøen’s charming animated short “This Is Katharine.” More than mere easter eggs, they’re a shorthand for how the film’s characters express and understand their queerness. And they remind us why we have queer film festivals in the first place.  Like Katharine, many queer people look for themselves

Marvel and Disney+’s “Werewolf by Night” is a great project in concept, but less so in execution. On paper, it should be a home run. Existing somewhere between a TV show and a movie, this standalone 53-minute adventure/thriller is like a one-off comic book, something that should allow for more freedom of creative expression, the stuff

“Piggy” is like the feature-length version of an editing gag that (often) feels cheap. Backed into a proverbial corner, an angry character lashes out at another in some explosive bit of violence. But then: another cut reveals this moment was just a fantasy in our protagonist’s head (you can see this gotcha bit in David O.

“The Clock.” “Dogfight.” “Before Sunrise.” The rarely-discussed but charming “Night Owls.” “Lost in Translation.” Movies where two people, preferably with different life experiences and/or outlooks, meet, sometimes “meet cute,” and spend 24 life-changing hours together. There’s the whole “people come into your life for a season, a reason, or a lifetime” philosophy. The characters are

The opening sequence of Dario Argento’s “Dark Glasses,” his first movie in nearly a decade, is a piece of filmmaking so strange, eerie, and mesmerizing that it raises hopes that Argento has at last shaken off the torpor of mediocre recent works as “The Card Player,” “Giallo,” and “Dracula 3-D” and made a film worthy

It’s been more than two decades since the deadly Columbine high school shooting that shook the world. While these traumatic events continue to happen to the point of ubiquity and a whole generation of kids have grown up in their wake, Hollywood has found in them a new setting for films that deal with lingering

Simultaneously overstuffed and undernourished, frantic and meandering, “Amsterdam” is one big, star-studded, hot mess of a movie. Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Robert De Niro, Anya Taylor-Joy, Rami Malek, Chris Rock, Michael Shannon, Zoe Saldana, Alessandro Nivola and many more major names: How can you amass this cast and go so wrong? Simply

Ruben Östlund’s “Triangle of Sadness” has become one of the more divisive Palme d’Or winners in years. On one side, there are the people who think that its underlined themes and obvious targets are a bit unrefined and obvious. On the other side, there are people who would argue those targets deserve a skewering and

Children and their families have been delighted by the stories about Lyle, the music-loving, scarf-wearing crocodile who lives on Manhattan’s East 88th Street, since the first book in the series by Bernard Waber was published in 1962. An HBO Storybook animated film with songs by Charles Strouse (“Annie”) perfectly matched the book’s colorful illustrations and cheerful story.