Roger Ebert Reviews

There’s something comforting about a traditional mystery series, one that puts most of the charisma and intelligence into a crime-solving protagonist and unleashes them on different homicidal riddles. The latest in the genre is a pleasant little surprise at the end of 2022, a very solid procedural that hands the inspector’s notebook to the great […]

Death unites us all. And societies are shaped by not just the dread of that inevitable outcome but the common manners in which we push those existential thoughts aside. Consumerism, conspiracy theories, and collective trauma collide in Noah Baumbach’s daring adaptation of a novel that may have been published in the mid-’80s but undeniably speaks

Joanna Hogg’s films are personal, even uber-personal, so much so that she used her own furniture for Julie’s apartment in “The Souvenir” and “The Souvenir Part II,” transporting objects into the “set” to immerse herself and her cast in the past she was trying to capture. Objects are never just objects in Hogg’s hands, but

“George & Tammy” is about two lovers who probably shouldn’t have been together, never mind over many years. But their union led to numerous hits—duets and solo songs—about the historical relationship between George Jones and Tammy Wynette. He was the hard-drinkin’ king, and she was his supportive queen, with an empire built of all the

The Unloved is nine years old today. My creation is old enough to do basic math and bother people with limited knowledge of the world.  I remember bugging everyone I knew when I was that age with hastily written lists of my favorite films of all time (having seen a very impressive 300 or so of them

For all the (justified) acclaim Disney+’s “Andor” has brought to the streaming service, it’s easy to forget just how much blood the Walt Disney Corporation is trying to squeeze out of the stones of its existing properties. Sure, it makes sense to flesh out the sprawling, IP-friendly worlds of Star Wars or the Marvel Cinematic

10 NEW TO HBO MAX “The Craft““Don’t Worry Darling““Fruitvale Station““The LEGO Movie”“Predator““Raging Bull““Seven““Stargate““Unforgiven““You’ve Got Mail“ 10 NEW TO NETFLIX “The Addams Family”“The Bad Guys““The Boxtrolls““Captain Phillips““The Interview““Moneyball““Notting Hill““Southpaw““Training Day““Where the Crawdads Sing“ 12 NEW BLU-RAY/DVDS “Bros“ Much was made of the relative box office disappointment of this romantic comedy, a movie meant to provide some

Filmmaker Joanna Hogg mesmerized critics and audiences alike with her duo of semi-autobiographical films 2019’s “The Souvenir” and 2021’s “The Souvenir Part II.” In filming these raw coming-of-auteur dramas, Hogg reunited with Tilda Swinton, her childhood friend and the star of her thesis film “Caprice.” During quarantine the two worked together again on “The Eternal

Not for nothing did Quentin Tarantino dedicate his “Reservoir Dogs” script, in part, to the late Lawrence Tierney. Along with influences from Timothy Carey, Roger Corman, Andre de Toth, Chow Yun Fat, John Woo, Jean-Luc Godard, and Jean-Pierre Melville, Tarantino infused his debut film with the spirit of Tierney, who made his bones onscreen with his

Long beloved by Indian moviegoers for his uninhibited, maximalist style and awe-inspiring command of film craft, Telugu director S. S. Rajamouli found himself catapulted to greater global prominence earlier this year, thanks to the crossover success of “RRR.” A bombastically heightened action epic set in Delhi during the early 1920s, “RRR”—or “Rise, Roar, Revolt”—follows two