Roger Ebert Reviews

One of the most spectacular and frustrating mixed bags of the superhero blockbuster era, “The Flash” is simultaneously thoughtful and clueless, challenging and pandering. It features some of the best digital FX work I’ve seen and some of the worst. Like its sincere but often hapless hero, it keeps exceeding every expectation we might have for its competence only […]

I am pleased to present the tenth and final video in our RogerEbert.com Cannes 2023 series. Here you will find an edited interview with iconic actor Jeffrey Wright, who was in Cannes with Wes Anderson’s latest film, “Asteroid City,” which I conducted at the Roger Ebert Conference Center in the American Pavilion.  Ben Kenigsberg, Jason

“I’m your friend. I’m just not your audience.” We’ve all been in this situation or something like it. Your friend or family member has created something you have no interest in, but they insist on your opinion and your time. If the creation is great, no problem. If it falls really short or is outright

The new eight-part Hulu series “The Clearing” (on Disney+ outside of the U.S.) is based on a novel by J.P Pomare called In the Clearing, which was inspired by a real-life cult named “The Family” that began in Australia in the mid ’60s. The Australian doomsday cult was one of the few led by a woman.

“I believe if you’re on this earth you’re supposed to help others, especially if you are fortunate to have some level of success…”  Jim Reynolds Congratulations to Jim Reynolds for being selected to receive the prestigious Lincoln Leadership Prize from the Lincoln Presidential Foundation. Reynolds, the founder, chairman and CEO of Loop Capital, is receiving the

One doesn’t so deeply insist on calling themselves “the luckiest guy in the world”—as NBA superstar and sportscaster Bill Walton does—without facing bad luck. As we learn from this jolly Steve James docuseries, the towering and ebullient Walton is known for hyperbole, for liberally using the word “fantastic.” But in the humble Hall of Famer’s mind, filled equally with Grateful Dead

While “Star Trek” has enjoyed quite the long history of video game adaptations—dozens of games spanning almost every system known to man, though the best ones end up on PC—it’s a difficult franchise to get right. It’s not “Star Wars,” where lightsabers and space dogfights are the order of the day, a single hero saving

RogerEbert.com publisher Chaz Ebert’s ninth video dispatch from the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, made with Scott Dummler of Mint Media Works, features her discussion with actor Nicholas Guest about his career as well as his thoughts on festival selections including Aki Kaurismäki’s “Fallen Leaves,” Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Monster” and Pedro Almodóvar’s “Strange Way of Life.” You can view Chaz’s full

A thoroughly pungent, scabrously funny kind of nightmare picaresque, Sean Price Williams’ “The Sweet East” (which premiered at Cannes in the Directors’ Fortnight section) is set not against the wide-open expanses of the American West, as per the road movies of past generations, but rather in the diseased underbelly of the country’s East coast. There,

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