Roger Ebert Reviews

The Toronto International Film Festival (“TIFF”) starts tomorrow, Thursday, September 8th, 2022, and runs until Sunday, September 18th. On Sunday, September 11th, RogerEbert.com publisher Chaz Ebert will be presenting the TIFF Ebert Director Award to Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes during the in-person TIFF Tribute Awards gala at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto. […]

Though it concerns that most clamorous of subjects in modern American discourse—political division, and the partisan enmity that’s come to define it—the nonfiction feature “This Land” begins quietly: with a shot of a wheat field, blowing in the breeze, and the sound of a pick-up truck engine, sputtering.  Often privileging such sensorial vignettes above narrative

Starz is no stranger to ornate, well-costumed historical dramas, as “The White Queen,” “The White Princess,” “The Spanish Princess,” and more can attest. But with “The Serpent Queen,” Starz eyes up the modern flair and pitch-black satire of Hulu’s great “The Great” and covets it for itself. It’s all there in the rippled, torn fabric

A woman wakes up early, straightens up around the house, grabs a few items, and leaves her husband and two children sleeping. She drives away from her life, and her family’s panic starts to set in as they realize that mom isn’t coming home. There’s an early reference to “two months” that will have viewers

Adamma Ebo’s satirical “Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul,” which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, features career-best performances from its stars Sterling K. Brown and Regina Hall. Brown plays Lee-Curtis Childs, pastor of the fictional megachurch Wander To Greater Paths Baptist Church, who is in the midst of a sexual misconduct scandal. Hall plays

I am inviting you to join me (only a few tickets are left) and help support FACETS at the 2022 Screen Gems Benefit on Wednesday, September 28th, at 6 pm at the Arts Club of Chicago, 201 E. Ontario Street. FACETS is Chicago’s historic film screening cinematheque and educational non-profit started by the late Milos Stehlik. I am proud

The Whole Earth Catalog, a broad-scope multi-disciplinarian magazine published between 1968 and 1972, opened with words from founder Stewart Brand: “We are as gods so we might as well get good at it.” This hubristic statement, so common in “visionary” types, particularly those who emerged from the “counterculture,” could sum up Stewart Brand (if he

Francois Ozon’s “Peter von Kant” is an odd, chilly film, even by this director’s standards. A psychological drama about a filmmaker in mid’-’70s Cologne, it gender-flips Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1978 “The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant,” about the relationship between the eponymous fashion designer (Margit Carstensen), her nonspeaking assistant Marlene (Irm Hermann), and a young woman

With school back in session and many students enrolled in after school sports or other competitive programs, Peter and Ian Edlund’s “the Ref” feels like the right short film for this month, particularly for anyone involved in education. All teachers are referees on many levels and with the political storms that have been brewing over

The Clinton legend looms large. They’re perhaps the most well-known American family, having been in the public eye for decades now. As a viewing public, we know so much about them and the type of political junky who will be drawn to “Gutsy” with a curiosity to know more about the Clinton women will probably