Roger Ebert Reviews

Harry Wootliff’s second feature, “True Things,” with Ruth Wilson and Tom Burke giving two riveting performances, isn’t really an “erotic thriller,” although that term is being bandied about as a descriptor. Yes, there’s a lot of sex in it, and yes, the mood gets very dark. But there isn’t really a “thriller” aspect to the […]

There’s a sublime sequence that occurs about midway through Juan Pablo González’s narrative debut feature, “Dos Estaciones,” that pivots from the film’s central storyline to follow another inhabitant of Atotonilco el Alto, Jalisco, the Mexican community in which the picture is set and where its director was born and raised. The character, a transgender hairdresser named

Practically from the moment it hit theaters, Neil LaBute’s 2006 remake of the 1973 British folk horror classic “The Wicker Man” has been largely dismissed as one of the worst movies of our time, and of value only to those who make compilation clips of Nicolas Cage at his most unhinged. Sure, it’s no masterpiece. But

One of this year’s most disturbing and provocative horror films might make you think twice about traveling abroad.  In Christian Tafdrup’s “Speak No Evil,” a Danish couple vacation in Tuscany with their young daughter, meeting a Dutch couple with a child of their own as both families lounge in the summer sun. After returning home,

Filled with as many chase scenes as tacky gowns, creator Oliver Lyttleton’s Hulu series “Wedding Season” cleverly combines the rush of Hitchcockian “wrong man” yarns with a send-up of the Wedding Industrial Complex. It’s an unlikely match that reveals itself to be truly inspired, especially with the chemistry from its two leads on the run, played

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